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France calls Olympic gender test ‘a step backwards’
AFP, Published on 27/03/2026
» PARIS - France on Friday called the International Olympic Committee’s new policy on gender testing to determine eligibility to compete in women’s events a “step backwards”, but other countries welcomed the move.
Tehran accuses US of ‘calculated’ assault on school
AFP, Published on 27/03/2026
» GENEVA - Iran’s foreign minister on Friday branded a deadly strike on an Iranian school on the first day of the Middle East war as a “calculated” US assault.
Iran Guards issue warning after Trump pushes deadline
AFP, Published on 27/03/2026
» Iran’s Revolutionary Guards urged civilians across the Middle East Friday to stay away from areas near US forces, ramping up their threats despite President Donald Trump’s claim talks to end the month-long war were “going well”.
G7 allies press Rubio on US plans for Iran
AFP, Published on 27/03/2026
» CERNAY-LA-VILLE, France - G7 allies were on Friday pressing US Secretary of State Marco Rubio for clarity on American plans for Iran almost one month into the war in the Middle East, as concern intensifies over the damage to the global economy from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz
War in the Middle East: latest developments
AFP, Published on 27/03/2026
» PARIS (FRANCE) - Here are the latest developments in the Middle East war:
Gabon battles for baby sea turtles' survival
AFP, Published on 27/03/2026
» LIBREVILLE (GABON) - Small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, newly hatched sea turtles emerged on a Gabonese beach to embark on the treacherous 10-metre scramble across the sand to the ocean.
Cyclone triggers outages at major Australian LNG plants
AFP, Published on 27/03/2026
» SYDNEY - Some of the world's largest LNG plants were forced shut on Friday by a cyclone off western Australia, squeezing fuel supplies already stretched thin by war in the Middle East.
Arctic sea ice at lowest level ever this winter
AFP, Published on 27/03/2026
» WASHINGTON (UNITED STATES) - Arctic sea ice reached its lowest level ever recorded, statistically tying last year's record, a leading US climate observatory for this geopolitically significant region said on Thursday.
US currency to bear Trump's signature, Treasury says
AFP, Published on 27/03/2026
» WASHINGTON (UNITED STATES) - US paper currency will soon bear Donald Trump's signature, the Treasury Department announced on Thursday, in a move that would be a first for a sitting American president and coincide with the country's 250th anniversary.
Trump goes off-script, US gone rogue
Oped, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 27/03/2026
» It was not supposed to work like this. "America First" and "Make America Great Again" (MAGA) were supposed to be about an inward turn to repair, replenish and rebuild an externally overstretched and internally weakened country, weighed down by unnecessary global entanglements, unsustainable national debt, and unimpeded mass migration. It seemed for a time that the MAGA movement to prioritise America above and beyond the international system and its constituent parts had found its final prophet in President Donald J Trump. But now, somehow, President Trump has betrayed the movement that has carried him to office by waging a disastrous war on Iran in cooperation with Israel.