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Displaced Lebanese family in a makeshift tent in Lebanon.

Lebanon at real risk of 'humanitarian catastrophe' - UN

Nearly a month into the Middle East war, Lebanon is facing a deepening humanitarian crisis that now risks teetering over into a catastrophe, the UN refugee agency has warned.

Middle East • 2 hrs

People gather at a cemetery to commemorate victims, most of them children, who were killed on a missile attack on a girls primary school in Minab, Hormozgan province, Iran

UN human rights chief demands 'justice' for school strike

The deadly bombing of an Iranian school spurred "visceral horror", the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has said, urging the US to conclude its probe and demanding justice "for the terrible harm done".

World • 3 hrs

Mexican Navy ARM Papaloapan prepares to assist the boat Maguro -- symbolically renamed "Granma 2.0" as a tribute to the yacht used by Fidel Castro's guerrilla fighters to launch their revolution in 1956, -- part of the Convoy with 30 tons of humanitarian

Missing boats 'safely' crossed to Cuba - US Coast Guard

Two aid boats bound for Cuba that were feared missing after they set sail from Mexico have been located and have "safely transited" to the island, the US Coast Guard has said.

World • 26 mins

A court sketch shows Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores in court

Judge questions block over Maduro's use of funds in case

A US judge has questioned the US government's justification for blocking ousted Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro from using the South American country's funds to pay for his legal defence against US drug trafficking charges, but said he would not dismiss the case against him on that basis.

US • 17 hrs

This screengrab from a video shows the fragment of a military drone which crashed

Drone crashes in Romania after Russia strikes Ukraine

A drone has crashed near a village in Romania after overnight Russian air strikes in neighbouring Ukraine, the government said, in the latest such incident since Moscow invaded Ukraine.

Ukraine • 26 Mar

US President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House.

Trump pauses plans to attack energy plants in Iran

US President Donald Trump has announced that he will pause attacks on Iran's energy plants for ten days at Tehran's request and said talks with Iran were going "very well".

Middle East • 10 hrs

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran is committed to continue resistance against the US and Israel

'We do not intend to negotiate', says Iranian FM

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said that Iran did not plan to negotiate with the United States and that Tehran intended to keep fighting, after President Donald Trump said Washington had proposed a peace plan.

Middle East • 26 Mar

Soldiers and rescuers near an Air Force Hercules emitting thick smoke after the aircraft crashed during takeoff in Puerto Leguizamo

77 hospitalised after military plane crashes in Colombia

A Colombian air force plane carrying 125 people crashed just after takeoff deep in the country's southern Amazon region, with one dead and 77 people hospitalised, authorities said.

World • 23 Mar

a yellow crane is seen at the sight of a launch pad for space rockets

Russia launches first rocket from repaired Baikonur site

Russia has launched a rocket from Site 31 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome for the first time since it was damaged during a lift-off last November, video from Russia's Roscosmos space agency showed.

News Lens • 22 Mar

Damage to a building following Russian airstrikes in Sloviansk, Ukraine

Ukraine says talks on resolving war to continue tomorrow

Ukrainian and US negotiators trying to move towards a settlement ⁠of the four-year war pitting Kyiv against Moscow opened their latest round of talks in Florida, with more discussions planned through the weekend.

Ukraine • 21 Mar

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