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April 1, 2026 11:00 AM

Trump administration unlawfully revoked status of migrants who used Biden-era app, US judge rules

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to reverse the termination of the legal status of thousands of migrants who had been allowed to temporarily live in the United States after using an appointment app utilized by Democratic President Joe Biden's administration. U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs in Boston ruled that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security acted unlawfully in April 2025 when it sent mass emails notifying many of the more than 900,000 pe...

March 25, 2026 2:41 PM

Missile Strikes Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Plant Again as IAEA Urges Restraint

A Missile struck the premises of Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant on Tuesday evening, the second such incident in just over a week, amid escalating regional hostilities. Iran's Atomic Energy Organization reported the hit occurred around 9:08 p.m. local time. According to officials, there was no damage to the nuclear reactor itself, no injuries to staff, and the plant continues to operate normally with radiation levels stable. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed it was info...

March 25, 2026 11:17 AM

West Asia conflict enters day 26 as strikes continue and diplomacy intensifies

The West Asia conflict has entered its 26th day, with continued exchanges of strikes and fresh diplomatic activity across the region. Israeli forces have intensified operations in southern Lebanon while signalling longer-term security plans along the border. Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said the military intends to take control of areas up to the Litani River for security reasons, adding that several bridges used by Hezbollah had been destroyed. He also said displaced residents would not...

March 25, 2026 10:14 AM

Gulf warnings and fears of miscalculation preceded Trump’s pause in Iran showdown

Donald Trump’s abrupt pause in his showdown with Iran followed warnings from Gulf states that the war was veering into a far more perilous phase and rising fears among officials in the region that Washington had misjudged Tehran’s readiness to escalate, regional sources and analysts said. Gulf Arab states warned him directly that U.S. strikes on Iran’s power plants would trigger Iranian retaliation on their own vital energy and desalination facilities, according to three regional sources ...

March 25, 2026 10:44 AM

Iran war starts to hit global economy, business surveys show

The Iran war is already taking a toll on major economies around the world, according to business surveys on Tuesday which showed how a surge in energy prices and rising uncertainty were dampening activity and pushing inflation expectations higher. The initial findings of questionnaires sent to purchasing managers at companies in the United States, Europe and Japan are the most comprehensive snapshot yet of the economic impact of the near four-week conflict that has shut off indefinitely a large...

March 25, 2026 10:05 AM

Israel strikes Tehran as Trump says US negotiating to end war

Israel struck the Iranian capital Tehran on Wednesday, Israeli military and Iranian media said, as President Donald Trump said the U.S. was making progress in its efforts to negotiate an end to the war, with reports of a 15-point plan sent to Tehran. The Israeli Defense Forces said in a Telegram post it had launched a wave of strikes targeting infrastructure across Tehran. The semi-official Iranian SNN News Agency said the strikes hit a residential area in the city, with rescuers searching the ...

March 25, 2026 10:02 AM

German president calls Iran war a disastrous mistake, in rare rebuke of Trump

The Iran war is a "disastrous mistake" that breaches international law, Germany's president said on Tuesday in an unusually blunt rebuke of U.S. President Donald Trump's foreign policy, which he said marked a rupture for German ties with its biggest post-war ally. In a scathing verbal attack, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, whose largely ceremonial role allows him to speak more freely than politicians, took a far more critical line than Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who has skirted questions on the war's...

March 25, 2026 9:59 AM

Trump says Iran made a major energy-related gift to the US

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Iran had made a major energy-related concession to the United States, describing it as a positive development, although he did not give details. Trump suggested the gift was related to the Strait of Hormuz, the oil transit waterway that the United States has struggled to keep open. "They gave us a present and the present arrived today, and it was a very big present, worth a tremendous amount of money," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. "It wa...

March 24, 2026 3:37 PM

Iran’s IRGC claims 78th wave of strikes on Israeli and US targets

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says it carried out its 78th wave of retaliatory strikes against Israeli and American targets in the early hours of Tuesday, March 24, as part of Operation True Promise 4. The IRGC said the latest strikes hit Israeli sites in Eilat, Dimona, and northern Tel Aviv, as well as a number of US military bases in the region, using Emad and Qadr ballistic missiles and combat drones. The corps said the operation was dedicated to the people of Iran's eastern provin...

March 24, 2026 9:33 AM

Global shares jittery, oil rebounds as fragile relief rally sours

Stocks were on tenterhooks and oil prices rose in choppy trade on Tuesday as U.S. President Donald Trump's postponement of the bombing of Iran's power grid proved no panacea for investors worried about the ramifications of the Middle East war. U.S. Treasury yields pushed higher and the dollar regained lost ground, in a retracement of the relief rally that swept markets overnight after Trump added five days to his Saturday ultimatum for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, citing...