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SEOUL: South Korea’s foreign minister said on Friday (Mar 6) that Seoul and Washington are in talks on possibly relocating weapons, as the war in Iran intensifies.The war in the Middle East has dragged in global powers and upended the world’s energy and transport sectors.South Korea, a US security ally, hosts around 28,500 American troops and air defence assets, including Patriot missile interceptors, to deter the nuclear-armed North.The operation of US forces in South Korea is “being closely coordinated between the military authorities of both countries”, Seoul’s Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said at a parliamentary hearing. Cho was responding to…

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Washington — In the week before an Iranian retaliatory strike that killed six American service members in Kuwait as the U.S.-Israeli war with Tehran began, Iranian intelligence was likely able to identify and track U.S. forces moving off military installations as a part of the Pentagon’s force protection plan. The troops had moved in anticipation of the preemptive strikes on Iran, according to a U.S. Army Central memo reviewed by CBS News. U.S. Army Central is a component of U.S. Central Command, the primary unit conducting operations against Iran. Its memo said that the U.S. had determined that Iranian-aligned militia groups…

If you want to understand Prime Minister Mark Carney’s approach to foreign policy, meet the chartered professional accountant he put in charge of it. Arun Thangaraj, formerly the deputy minister of Transport Canada, was appointed to the top bureaucratic role at Global Affairs Canada on Wednesday morning.Thangaraj’s previous stint at the department was as its chief financial officer, and his foreign policy experience also includes a time as deputy chief financial officer at the Canadian International Development Agency.The shuffle is another data point in what we can reasonably, by now, call Carney’s foreign policy — one driven by transactional relationships,…

Indonesia says it plans to ban social media access for children under 16 due to risks ​from porn, cyberbullying, online fraud and addiction.

GENEVA: The United Nations rights chief said on Friday (Mar 6) that 56 Afghan civilians had been killed – nearly half of them children – since hostilities with neighbouring Pakistan intensified last week.”I plead with all parties to bring an end to the conflict, and to prioritise helping those experiencing extreme hardship,” Volker Turk said in a statement.The neighbours have clashed along the frontier since Feb 26, when Afghanistan launched a border offensive in retaliation for Pakistani airstrikes.Islamabad has hit back along the border and with fresh airstrikes, bombing multiple sites including the former United States air base at Bagram,…

For decades, Africa’s pharmaceutical approvals were slowed by a patchwork of regulatory systems, with each country operating independently. A manufacturer seeking to sell the same product across several countries had to submit separate dossiers, pay multiple fees, respond to repeated scientific queries, and endure approval timelines that could stretch from 12 months in some markets to over 30 in others. Fragmented oversight, uneven technical capacity, and duplicated assessments made multi-country operations costly and uncertain, discouraging large-scale investment and slowing access to medicines for patients across the continent.The landscape began to change in 2025. The World Health Organization implemented its most…

The United States-Israeli military strike against Iran on February 28, 2026, was not merely another episode in the region’s long cycle of tensions. That attack quickly transformed into a pivotal event with the announcement of the assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, a development that disrupted the balance of power within the regional axis Tehran had built over decades.In Yemen specifically, a different question arose: how will Abdel-Malik al-Houthi deal with this moment? Will these developments push the group to engage in a new confrontation, or will it choose to manage the situation cautiously and wait for the conflict’s…

Throughout her career, Annie Leibovitz has photographed influential women, including Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Queen Elizabeth and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She spoke to Anthony Mason about the moments behind the photos and what she plans for her future.

NANJING, CHINA – MARCH 2, 2026 – New energy vehicles parked outside a BYD store in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China on March 2, 2026. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesBYD lost ground to its domestic competitors over the first two months of the year, as overall demand in China’s electric vehicle market slowed.The world’s largest electric vehicle manufacturer’s combined January and February sales volume in 2026 dipped by roughly 36% compared to the year before. This figure was adjusted to account for the seasonal sales slowdown during the two-week Chinese New…