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NewsFeed‘We do it together, in confidence’: Netanyahu backs US strikes on Iran“Whatever we do, we do together, and as far as possible, in confidence.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to back US strikes on Iran’s power grid if Tehran does not reopen the Strait of Hormuz, as he visited the site of an Iranian strike in Arad. He urged world leaders to join the war effort as US-Israeli attacks on Iran have killed more than 1,500 people and injured thousands.Published On 22 Mar 202622 Mar 2026SaveClick here to share on social mediashare2SharefacebooktwitterwhatsappcopylinkgoogleAdd media on Googleinfo
ATLANTA (news agencies) — Allergy season can be miserable for tens of millions of Americans when trees, grass, and other pollens cause runny noses, itchy eyes, coughing and sneezing.Where you live, what you’re allergic to and your lifestyle can make a big difference when it comes to the severity of your allergies. Experts say climate change is leading to longer and more intense allergy seasons, but also point out that treatments for seasonal allergies have become more effective over the last decade. Here are some tips from experts to keep allergy symptoms at bay — maybe even enough to allow…
NewsFeedLebanese nurse refuses to leave her post at hospital despite lossesLebanese nurse Narjis Bilal Salman remains at her post in the Bekaa Valley after losing her fiance in the 2024 Israel-Hezbollah war. She says her role is to keep helping others despite the loss. Lebanon’s Health Ministry says more than 1,000 people have been killed and 2,740 others injured since Israel renewed widespread attacks on the country earlier this month.Published On 22 Mar 202622 Mar 2026SaveClick here to share on social mediashare2SharefacebooktwitterwhatsappcopylinkgoogleAdd media on Googleinfo
The threshold the Israeli authorities have set for the use of a nuclear weapon is dangerously low.For decades, the world has treated Israel’s nuclear arsenal as an awkward secret — something everyone knows exists but few are willing to discuss openly. Israel has never officially acknowledged possessing nuclear weapons, yet it is widely understood among security experts that the country maintains a significant nuclear capability.Estimates from institutions such as the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute suggest Israel possesses roughly around 80 nuclear warheads, along with delivery systems that could include aircraft and ballistic missiles. The policy governing this arsenal is…
NEW YORK (news agencies) — Sixty years after Neil Armstrong barely survived an emergency in orbit around Earth on Gemini 8, never-before-seen photos of his heroic return have been donated to the Ohio museum that bears his name.Quick thinking saved Armstrong and fellow astronaut David Scott, who ended the mission early with a splashdown off Okinawa, Japan. Previously unreleased photos taken by Ron McQueeney, an Army veteran and professional photographer who escorted Armstrong and Scott, show new angles of the pair. Since the splashdown was unplanned, few members of the media were on site, though NASA and military photographers were…
The war on Iran revealed how dependent Israel’s Arab neighbours are on its gas exports, a dependency that could extend to Syria and Lebanon.At the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran, reports emerged that Jordan and Egypt have cut off gas supplies to Syria. These reports appeared as minor details amid the shock of the latest episode of US-Israeli aggression in the Middle East – part of an ongoing effort to reshape the region.Yet such seemingly inconsequential reports conceal the longer-term, nonmilitary processes through which that reshaping is materially enacted. What was made clear by this news was that…
One day at an Idaho hospital, half the newborns Dr. Tom Patterson saw didn’t get the vitamin K shots that have been given to babies for decades to prevent potentially deadly bleeding. On another recent day, more than a quarter didn’t get the shot. Their parents wouldn’t allow it.“When you look at a child who’s innocent and vulnerable — and a simple intervention that’s been done since 1961 is refused — knowing that baby’s going out into the world is super worrisome to me,” said Patterson, who’s been a pediatrician for nearly three decades.Doctors across the nation are alarmed that…
Cnews agenciesE CANAVERAL, Fla. (news agencies) — For the second time this year, NASA moved its moon rocket from the hangar out toward the pad Friday in hopes of launching four astronauts on a lunar fly-around next month. If the latest repairs work and everything else goes NASA’s way, the Space Launch System could blast off as early as April 1 from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. The Artemis II crew went into quarantine this week in Houston.The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket began the slow 4-mile (6.4-kilometer) trek in the middle of the night, transported atop a massive crawler used since the…
What is being done to Iran today could be done to Africa tomorrow. Africa must reject this illegal war.Israel and America’s war on Iran has killed more than 1,500 people in a matter of weeks, and the toll continues to rise.In Tehran on March 7, mourners gathered around the coffin of Zainab Sahebi, a two-year-old girl killed in an Israeli air strike. A small doll lay beside her coffin as relatives and neighbours crowded the funeral, grappling with the loss of a child taken in an instant.Zainab’s funeral was only one of many.On March 3, thousands gathered in Minab, in…
The real threat lies not in blocking the waterway, but in quietly turning its approaches into a zone of uncertainty that global shipping cannot ignore.The world still speaks about the Strait of Hormuz as if the central question were whether Iran will try to close it. That is now the wrong question.Iran’s most effective military option is not to mine the Strait of Hormuz itself, nor the narrow, internationally scrutinised traffic corridor inside the strait proper, but to mine the approaches to the strait, especially the entrance zones where commercial traffic converges before entering the constrained transit system. That is…