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RESTRICTED TICKETSThe service linking the capitals will operate four days a week in both directions, running on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, China’s railway authority said in a notice.Tickets, restricted to business visa holders, were sold out for Thursday’s trip, but those for Mar 18 were still available, a Beijing travel agency said.The shorter Dandong-Pyongyang link will operate daily in both directions, with the first service leaving China’s northeastern city of Dandong at 10am on Thursday to arrive in Pyongyang at 6.07pm, the official news agency Xinhua said.Cross-border flights were also halted during the pandemic.North Korea’s state carrier Air Koryo…

United Nations refugee agency says forced displacement likely to increase as US and Israel continue deadly strikes across Iran.Listen to this article | 3 minsinfoPublished On 12 Mar 202612 Mar 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2Shareplus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoMore than three million people have been displaced in Iran since the United States and Israel launched a war against the country late last month, the United Nations says, as concerns mount over a worsening humanitarian crisis.The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Thursday that as many as 3.2 million people – representing between 600,000 and one million Iranian households…

The U.S. on Thursday sanctioned six individuals and two companies accused of aiding North Korea in running a global scheme using remote IT workers to defraud businesses and funnel hundreds of millions of dollars into the hermit kingdom’s weapons programs.The sanctions, revealed by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control and first reported by CBS News, target networks that allegedly helped North Korean operatives pose as legitimate information technology specialists, securing jobs at legitimate companies using stolen identities, forged documents and fake online personas.Treasury officials say the program has become a major revenue stream for Pyongyang, with the…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Kacey Musgraves is opening up about her rumored feud with Miranda Lambert.In a recent interview with NPR, the 37-year-old singer opened up about the rumored feud between her and the “Gunpowder & Lead” singer after a song Musgraves wrote ended up on Lambert’s 2013 album “Four the Record.””It was gonna be my first single and I loved the song so much,” Musgraves said. “I had been a staff writer for years at that point, writing for other people and had finally felt like I was collecting songs that felt like me that…

Palantir is still using Anthropic’s Claude as the artificial intelligence startup’s clash with the Pentagon plays out, CEO Alex Karp told CNBC Thursday.”The Department of War is planning to phase out Anthropic; currently, it’s not phased out,” Karp told CNBC’s Seema Mody at Palantir’s AIPcon 9 in Maryland. “Our products are integrated with Anthropic, and in the future, it will probably be integrated with other large language models.”The Department of Defense officially designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk last week, but is still using Claude models to support the war in Iran, as CNBC previously reported.Anthropic sued the Trump administration on…

Travelers wait in line at a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint at William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, Texas, US, on Monday, March 9, 2026. Mark Felix | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe surge in fuel prices since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran nearly two weeks ago is already driving up airfare. Consumers’ appetite for travel this year will dictate just how much.Cathay Pacific on Thursday said it would roughly double fuel surcharges on tickets starting March 18.Earlier this week, Australia’s Qantas said it is raising fares to help cover its costs, Scandinavian Airlines said the “unusually rapid and substantial…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size The City of Kingston, Ont., is heading back to the drawing board after failing to reach a deal with a developer to build a new downtown conference centre. The municipality announced it was unable to finalize an agreement with its partners for the hospitality-focused redevelopment of Block 4, located across from Slush Puppie Place.Mayor Bryan Paterson said the city remains committed to the project and will use this time to re-evaluate.“We’re going to go back and refine some of the details around the project with plans to resubmit it to the market…

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Several ASEAN countries have already taken concrete steps to cope with the impact of the Middle East crisis.The Philippines has shortened the government work week to conserve fuel, and its president has asked Congress for authority to suspend excise taxes on fuel to help stabilise costs.Vietnam on Thursday cut its retail fuel prices overnight following the easing in global crude oil prices from earlier highs, but the government warned prices will remain volatile, with more supply disruptions anticipated.Earlier this month, Thailand also halted energy exports to all countries other than Laos and Myanmar. “It is important that our actions and…