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Months of cross-border clashes escalated Thursday when Afghanistan launched an offensive along the frontier, with Pakistani forces hitting back on the border and from the skies

Surge in hostilities

Explosion, gunfire as Afghan forces shoot at aircraft over Kabul

A woman holds pictures of Reza Pahlavi - the son of Iran's former Shah - and US President Donald Trump as members of the Iranian community celebrate in Los Angeles

'Mixed feelings'

Iranians across North America rally for -- and against -- strikes

(L-R) 'Hamnet' producers Nicolas Gonda, Pippa Harris and Liza Marshall are nominees for the best picture Oscar, along with fellow producers Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes

Filmmakers push back

Shakespeare would have shunned streaming, 'Hamnet' team says

US songwriter Diane Warren has often been a Academy Award nominee but never a winner

Influential songwriter

Will Oscars be 17th time lucky for songwriter Diane Warren?

US screenwriter Will Tracy is an Oscar nominee for best adapted screenplay for 'Bugonia'

Oscar-nominated script

Sympathy for the bedeviled: the likable conspiracy theorist of 'Bugonia'

Greg Diaz, president of International Frontier Forwarders, Inc., oversees machinery for the oil and gas industry destined for Venezuela being loaded onto the Portuguese flagged vessel Roibeira at the Port of Houston, Texas on February 25, 2026. Workers in hard hats teem aboard a cargo ship at the Port of Houston, the latest US ship headed to Venezuela after President Donald Trump lifted restrictions to boost oil production in the crisis-hit country. US sanctions have crippled Venezuela for years, but Trump's administration has been working with interim president Delcy Rodriguez after toppling autocratic leader Nicolas Maduro. Washington has used a carrot-and-stick approach with Rodriguez, praising her for welcoming US oil companies but at the same time threatening her with violence if she does not cooperate.

Lifted restrictions

Texas port humming as Trump ramps up Venezuela oil

The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting after the US-Israeli strikes on Iran

'Matter of global security'

US, Israel defend strikes at UN as Iran alleges 'war crime'

A cyclist watched as a projectile falls over Dubai during an Iranian missile strikes triggered by a wave of US and Israeli strikes on Iran

Unprecedented attacks

Iran attacks rock Dubai's Palm, Burj Al Arab, airport

British singer Olivia Dean claimed four prizes at the UK's biggest annual music celebration

Claiming four prizes

UK pop-soul star Olivia Dean sweeps Brit Awards

This official White House photograph shows US President Donald Trump (2L), US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (3R) and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles (2R) monitoring activity related to Operation Epic Fury against Iran from an unnamed location

Monitoring the progress

White House releases photos of Trump, Vance during Iran ops

The protests represent the biggest challenge yet to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Cheers heard in Tehran

Trump says Khamenei is dead after Israel, US attack Iran

Brazil's meteorological agency INMET told AFP that parts of the country's southeast were experiencing the rainiest February in years

Rainiest February in years

Brazil's Lula visits flood zone as death toll from landslides hits 70

US President Donald Trump's assertion that Iranian missiles could 'soon' strike the United States has been called into question

Regime change, not threat prevention

Questions cloud Trump's case for war against Iran

Manchester City beat Leeds 1-0 to close within two points of Arsenal

Premier League roundup

Man City win to close on Arsenal as Liverpool hit five

Residents of Gulf cities could watch missiles and air defence interceptors criss crossing their skies during the strikes, as here in Abu Dhabi

Hurriedly evacuated

Residents flee as Iran missiles stun peaceful Gulf cities

The joint US-Israeli strikes targeted Iran's leadership and its ballistic missile programme

'More complex and more complicated'

Could the US-Israel war on Iran drag on?

At a demonstration in Istanbul, police stopped the crowd from approaching Iran's consulate

Living in exile

Iranians abroad jittery but jubilant at US, Israeli strikes

Pakistan's captain Salman Agha shows his disappointment as his side were knocked outof the T20 World Cup

Pakistan 'have underperformed' says Agha after T20 World Cup exit

Vietnam' National Assembly passed the law, which requires human oversight of generative AI, in December

Comprehensive framework

Vietnam AI law takes effect, first in Southeast Asia

The US Capitol is the seat of Congress, where lawmakers offered both praise and criticism of President Donald Trump's order to strike arch-foe Iran

"Operation Epic Fury"

Republicans back Trump, Democrats attack 'illegal' Iran war

Pakistan players leave the field after their T20 World Cup came to an end in Kandy

New Zealand into T20 World Cup semis as Sri Lanka avoid big Pakistan loss

President Donald Trump maes a video address on Iran

'It will be yours to take'

In Iran attack, Trump seeks what he foreswore -- regime change

Some pro-goverbment protestors waved national flags during a demonstration in support of the government, but US and Israeli strikes and a striong security presence drove many Iranians to seek shelter

Despite negotiations

Streets empty and shops close as US strikes confirm Iranian fears

Israelis were taking shelter underground for the second time in less than a year

Israelis shelter underground as Iran fires missiles

This photograph shows the scaffolding covered with a canvas reproducing Michelangelo's Last Judgment during a press visit of the rare restoration of the fresco in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican on February 28, 2026.

Climate change forces facelift for Michelangelo masterpiece

Keir Starmer said Britain would "strengthen our defensive operations" in the Middle East

International news ticker

Britain is shelving its plan to hand back the Chagos Islands

Denis Sassou-Nguesso is one of Africa's longest-serving leaders, after Paul Biya of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Mbasogo

Contested elections

Congo-Brazzaville president vows to keep power as campaign kicks off

President Donald Trump maes a video address on Iran

'The hour of your freedom is at hand'

Trump says US aims to destroy Iran's military, topple government

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