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Lebanon postpones parliamentary elections by two years

France, March 9 -- MPs convened on Monday including Mohammed Raad, head of Hezbollah's parliamentary "Loyalty to the Resistance" bloc, as Israeli warplanes flew above the nearby southern suburbs of Be... Read More


Macron announces 'defensive' mission to reopen Strait of Hormuz

France, March 9 -- Speaking during a visit to Cyprus to discuss regional security, Macron said the mission would be aimed at escorting container ships and tankers in order to gradually reopen the Stra... Read More


Macron visits Cyprus as Europe tightens security in eastern Mediterranean

France, March 9 -- President Macron travelled to Cyprus on Monday, just days after dispatching a warship to the eastern Mediterranean island following a drone strike that hit a British air base on its... Read More


Who is Mojtaba Khamenei, the influential insider now leading Iran?

France, March 9 -- Iran's Assembly of Experts, the clerical body responsible for appointing the country's supreme leader, elected Mojtaba Khamenei on Sunday during a secret meeting in the holy city of... Read More


France launches nationwide petrol station inspections as fuel prices jump

France, March 9 -- French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu announced on Sunday that the government would conduct "an exceptional plan of 500 inspections" at petrol stations across the country between ... Read More


Conflict spreads across the Middle East as Iran names new supreme leader

France, March 9 -- Nine days after US-Israeli strikes killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and pushed the Middle East into a widening war, Iranian clerics selected only the third supreme leader since the 197... Read More


Trial opens at Paris court over 2014 fatal crash of Air Algerie flight in Mali

France, March 9 -- The hearings, set to run until 2 April, follow French judges' rejection of a second attempt to refer preliminary questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJUE), the ... Read More


Iran says can fight for months as Israel strikes Beirut hotel

France, March 8 -- As the conflict spilled into its second week, the regional repercussions spiralled, with Saudi Arabia intercepting a wave of drones headed for targets including the diplomatic quart... Read More


Fiji fears crisis as WHO warns it has world's fastest growing HIV epidemic

France, March 8 -- After recording more than 1,000 new infections in 2024, in a population of 900,000, authorities in Fiji announced the launch of an HIV epidemic response plan and the implementa... Read More


Women take the wheel as rickshaw drivers in northern Nigeria

France, March 8 -- As more women are having to fend for themselves amid economic hardship, they are increasingly venturing into trades previously dominated by men. Khalid's pink three-wheeled electri... Read More