LONDON, March 1 (Xinhua) -- The military strike against Iran will "take four weeks -- or less," U.S. President Donald Trump said in an exclusive phone interview with Britain's Daily Mail, the newspaper reported Sunday. Read full story

WASHINGTON, March 1 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump warned on Sunday that combat operations in Iran were continuing and would carry on until all of Washington's objectives are achieved. Read full story

March 1 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump suggested the conflict with Iran could go on for the next four weeks, the Daily Mail newspaper reported on Sunday. Read full story

WASHINGTON, March 1 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that the U.S. military was sinking Iran's Navy, having destroyed nine Iranian warships so far and "going after the rest." Read full story

March 1 (Reuters) - Belgium seized an oil tanker belonging to the Russian shadow fleet on Sunday, Belgian defence minister Theo Francken said. Read full story

DUBAI: Thousands of flights have been disrupted in the wake of the escalating conflict engulfing the Middle East, with Dubai's main airport - the world's busiest aviation hub - effectively shut down after it was hit by a suspected aerial strike. Read full story

DUBAI: The death of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after almost 37 years in power raises paramount questions about the country's future. The contours of a complex succession process began to take shape the morning after Khamenei's assassination. Read full story

KABUL, March 1 (Reuters) - Blasts and gunfire were heard in Kabul on Sunday, a Reuters journalist in the Afghan capital said, as fighting between Afghanistan and Pakistan entered a fourth day. Read full story

Tehran: Iranian media reported on Sunday (March 1) that the daughter, son-in- law and granddaughter of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had been killed in US and Israeli strikes. Read full story

LA PAZ, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Anger swelled in a poor Bolivian city where a plane crash left banknotes strewn on the ground, prompting authorities to burn the notes they collected and use tear gas to disperse those they accused of trying to pick them up. Read full story

DUBAI, March 1 (Xinhua) -- Dubai authorities confirmed that a drone had been intercepted and its shrapnel caused a limited fire on the exterior facade of the iconic Burj Al Arab hotel in the United Arab Emirates. Read full story

Feb 28 (Reuters) - Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday. Read full story

KYIV, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Russia said at recent talks in Geneva it would accept the U.S. proposal for Ukraine's post-war security guarantees, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's chief of staff said on Saturday. Read full story

LA PAZ, Feb 27 - A Bolivian Air Force Hercules aircraft crashed on Friday evening on an avenue in the city of El Alto, near Bolivia's capital La Paz, according to television media reports. Read full story

MADRID/BARCELONA, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Spanish authorities rescued 41 migrants from two boats off the Balearic Islands on Friday, bringing to an end a search for three vessels that had been reported missing on the dangerous route between Algeria and the Mediterranean archipelago. Read full story

BOSTON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - The Trump administration scheduled a Friday flight to bring a deported college student back from Honduras after a judge ordered her return, but she declined to board the plane after U.S. authorities said they may detain and deport her again. Read full story

LONDON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Britain's Ministry of Defence is reviewing flight records that could hold information relating to Jeffrey Epstein, a ministry spokesperson said, after files appeared to show the late U.S. sex offender landed his private jet at military bases. Read full story

ISLAMABAD, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Pakistan carried out air strikes on Afghanistan's major cities overnight, officials in Islamabad and Kabul said on Friday, escalating months of border clashes between the Islamic neighbours. Read full story

BERLIN, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Buses, trams and trains across Germany ground to a halt early Friday as local transport workers heeded a call by the Verdi public sector union to stage a strike on February 27 and 28. Read full story

MANCHESTER, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour Party suffered an embarrassing election defeat on Friday in an area of Greater Manchester that it had dominated for almost a century, a loss that underscores the breakdown of Britain's two-party politics. Read full story

ISLAMABAD, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif said on Friday that the country was in an "open war" with neighbouring Afghanistan, declaring that Islamabad's patience had run out as tensions escalated overnight, with both sides reporting heavy losses. Read full story

WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's claim that Iran will soon have a missile that can hit the United States is not backed by U.S. intelligence reports and appears to be exaggerated, according to three sources familiar with intelligence reports, casting doubt on part of his case for a possible attack on the Islamic Republic. Read full story

KABUL/ISLAMABAD, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Pakistan bombed Taliban government targets in Afghanistan's major cities overnight, officials from both countries said on Friday, with Pakistan's defence minister calling the conflict "open war". Read full story

SANTA CLARA, Cuba, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Cuba criticized the U.S. government for allowing anti-Cuban groups to operate with impunity on Thursday, as Cuban exiles wounded in an apparent attack aboard a Florida-registered speedboat convalesced at a provincial Cuban hospital. Read full story

HUNZA VALLEY, Pakistan, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Every winter for decades, the pool in front of Aleena Gul's house in Pakistan's Hunza Valley has transformed into an ice rink, framed by jagged Himalayan peaks and the stone walls of Altit Fort. Read full story

BUDAPEST, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- Freight services on the Hungarian section of the Budapest-Belgrade railway officially resumed just after midnight on Friday, with the first train departing from Budapest's Ferencvaros station. Read full story

TIRANA, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama late on Thursday dismissed his deputy, Belinda Balluku, who faces accusations of manipulating public tenders, allegations that have sparked opposition protests. Read full story

Feb 26 (Reuters) - The United States is offering rewards of up to $5 million each for information leading to the arrests or convictions of Ren Arzate-Garca and Alfonso Arzate-Garca, two brothers alleged to be bosses in the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel, the State Department said in a statement on Thursday. Read full story

MOSCOW, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman said on Thursday that an incident with a Florida-registered speedboat off the coast of Cuba was an 'aggressive provocation by the United States' aimed at escalating the situation and triggering a conflict, state-owned TASS news agency reported. Read full story

KYIV, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Russia attacked Ukraine with missiles and drones last night, causing damage to residential buildings and injuring about 20 people in the eastern and southern regions, local authorities said on Thursday. Read full story

PARIS, Feb 26 (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron will update France's nuclear doctrine on Monday, ruling out shared European control while outlining what Paris can offer allies worried about the reliability of the U.S. nuclear umbrella under President Donald Trump. Read full story

WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - British anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson visited the U.S. State Department on Wednesday and met with at least one U.S. official, social media posts from Robinson and a department official showed. Read full story

SEOUL, Feb 26 (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said prospects of North Korea-U.S. relations depend entirely on the attitude of the United States, while excluding any discussion with South Korea, state media KCNA said on Thursday. Read full story

NEW YORK, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- An International Monetary Fund (IMF) report released Wednesday projects U.S. real GDP growth of 2.6 percent in 2026, up from the January forecast of 2.4 percent. Read full story

NEW YORK, Feb 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. is blocking the Venezuelan government from paying for Nicolas Maduro's legal representation in the drug trafficking case he faces in New York, the deposed Venezuelan president's defense lawyer said on Wednesday. Read full story

WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - The FBI subpoenaed records of phone calls made by Kash Patel and Susie Wiles, now the FBI director and White House Chief of Staff, when they were both private citizens in 2022 and 2023 during the federal probe of Donald Trump, Patel told Reuters on Wednesday. Read full story

SEOUL, Feb 25 (Reuters) - South Korea and the United States will conduct major joint military drills known as Freedom Shield from March 9 to 19, military officials from the countries said on Wednesday. Read full story