Sri Lanka has increased the weekly fuel quotas allocated under the QR code-based National Fuel Pass system from midnight on Saturday, the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation said.
March 22, 2026
2026-03-22
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Saturday to "hit and obliterate" Iranian power plants if the country fails to fully open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours.
March 22, 2026
2026-03-22
Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message to the 10th summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, which opened Saturday in Bogota, the capital of Colombia.
March 22, 2026
2026-03-22
An Iranian international affairs expert said on Saturday that Iran attacked the nuclear site in the southern Israeli city of Dimona earlier in the day in response to an Israeli strike on Iran's Natanz atomic facility.
March 22, 2026
2026-03-22
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to provide security at airports amid an ongoing shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which has dragged on for more than a month and left regular security personnel going unpaid.
March 22, 2026
2026-03-22
U.S. media reported on Friday that the Pentagon is sending three more warships and more Marines to the Middle East, marking the second such deployment to the region within a week, as the U.S.-Israel-Iran war escalates.
March 22, 2026
2026-03-22
Yemen's Houthi group said Saturday that it is closely monitoring the developments in the Strait of Hormuz, and would take "appropriate action" in the face of unfolding events in the region.
March 22, 2026
2026-03-22
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday called for unity and action to address "the ancient poison of racism," which he said is alive and kicking in every community, society, country and region of the world.
March 22, 2026
2026-03-22
Iran fired two ballistic missiles at the U.S.-British Diego Garcia military base in the Indian Ocean, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported on Saturday.
March 21, 2026
2026-03-21
On Nov. 5, 2025, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) adopted a resolution at its 43rd session of the General Conference designating March 21 as International Taijiquan Day.
March 21, 2026
2026-03-21
The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday issued a general license temporarily lifting sanctions on Iranian oil at sea for 30 days to address the supply shortage amid shipping interruptions in the Strait of Hormuz.
March 21, 2026
2026-03-21
The 2026 Toronto Comicon kicked off in Toronto, Canada, on Friday and will last until Sunday.
March 21, 2026
2026-03-21
A Chinese military spokesperson on Friday warned the Philippine side to immediately cease infringement and provocative acts after a Philippine C-208 aircraft illegally intruded into the airspace over waters adjacent to Meiji Jiao of China's Nansha Qundao without the approval of the Chinese government.
March 21, 2026
2026-03-21
The U.S. government on Friday issued a 30-day sanctions waiver for the purchase of Iranian oil at sea to ease energy supply pressures, media reports said.
March 21, 2026
2026-03-21
People shop at a market on the eve of Eid al-Fitr festival in Karachi, Pakistan
March 21, 2026
2026-03-21
Britain has agreed to allow the United States to use British bases to carry out "operations to degrade the missile sites and capabilities being used to attack ships in the Strait of Hormuz," according to a Downing Street statement released on Friday.
March 21, 2026
2026-03-21
U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that he is considering "winding down" the U.S. military strikes against Iran, claiming the United States is "getting very close to" meeting its objectives.
March 21, 2026
2026-03-21
Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) announced on Friday that Ali-Mohammad Naeini, its spokesman, was killed in a U.S. and Israeli attack earlier in the day, according to a statement published on the IRGC's official news outlet Sepah News.
March 20, 2026
2026-03-20
A large-scale fire broke out on Friday in South Korea's automotive parts manufacturing factory, leaving 53 injured and 14 others missing, according to Yonhap news agency.
March 20, 2026
2026-03-20
More than 10,000 Japanese people gathered in Tokyo Thursday night to protest against Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's dangerous policy agenda, including attempts to revise the country's pacifist Constitution and deployment of long-range missiles.
March 20, 2026
2026-03-20
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