Pakistani security officers killed in blast claimed by Baloch separatists

Dozens of paramilitary troops wounded in explosion in Noshki district of Balochistan days after deadly train hijacking.

Source: Al Jazeera

Voice of America staff put on leave, Trump ally says agency 'not salvageable'

More than 1,300 Voice of America employees were placed on leave on March 15 and funding for two US news services that broadcast to authoritarian regimes was terminated, one day …

Source: France 24

Nightclub fire in North Macedonia kills at least 51, injures more than 100

A massive nightclub fire has killed at least 51 people in North Macedonia’s eastern town of Kocani and injured about 100 more, Interior Minister Panche Toshkovski told a press conference …

Source: France 24

Fisherman rescued after 95 days adrift eating turtles

Maximo Napa Castro set off for what should have been a two-week trip on 7 December - but was only found on Wednesday.

Source: BBC

NASA's stuck astronauts welcome their newly arrived replacements to the space station

Just over a day after blasting off, a SpaceX crew capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday, delivering the replacements for NASA's two stuck astronauts.

Source: NPR

Trump and Putin to discuss proposed Ukraine ceasefire this week

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accepted the plan but Russia has yet to commit to the truce.

Source: Al Jazeera

How Trump’s Crackdown Is Drastically Driving Down Migration

Building on Biden-era policies, President Trump is strong-arming regional leaders, deploying military force and shredding decades of precedents when it comes to the U.S.-Mexico border.

Source: New York Times

US says airstrikes against Houthis in Yemen will continue indefinitely

Strikes began on Saturday with the aim of punishing Iran-backed armed group for attacks on Red Sea shipping

US officials have said airstrikes launched against Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis will continue …

Source: The Guardian

Netanyahu Moves to Fire Israel’s Domestic Intelligence Chief

The Israeli prime minister’s effort to remove the Shin Bet chief is raising concerns about whether he was seeking to undermine the agency’s independence.

Source: New York Times

What went wrong with the UK’s welfare system?

Factors behind sharp rise in incapacity and disability benefits are complex and at times counterintuitive

Source: Financial Times

HMRC probes into unpaid capital gains tax trebled in 2023-24

UK tax agency is under growing pressure from government to increase revenue by improving compliance

Source: Financial Times

These are the 4 biggest things we're watching in the stock market this week

Fed Chair Jerome Powell's press conference and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's GTC keynote are influential events.

Source: CNBC