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Ex-Belgian diplomat ordered to stand trial over murder of Congo’s Lumumba 

17 March 2026

News|Courts A 93-year-old former Belgian diplomat has been ordered by a Brussels court to stand trial over the assassina...

Starmer, Zelenskyy urge ‘focus’ on Ukraine as Iran war diverts attention 

17 March 2026

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in London to sign a new defence pact...

US National Counterterrorism Center director Joe Kent resigns over Iran war 

17 March 2026

News|US-Israel war on Iran The director of the US National Counterterrorism Center, which advises both US President Dona...

Israeli attacks on Lebanon may amount to war crimes, UN rights office says 

17 March 2026

Israeli attacks on residential buildings and civilian infrastructure in Lebanon may amount to war crimes, the United Nat...

Iran blames US, Israel for Hormuz tensions as crisis risks energy supplies 

17 March 2026

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has blamed the United States-Israel war for disruptions to shipping in the Str...

Macron prepares France for ‘an age of nuclear weapons’ as Iran war rages 

17 March 2026

Paris, France – A couple of days after the United States and Israel launched their assault on Iran, French President E...

Mapping Israeli attacks and the displacement of one million in Lebanon 

17 March 2026

The Israeli military has launched new waves of air raids across southern Lebanon after announcing “limited and targete...

Are the US and Israel waging war on Iran’s cultural heritage? 

17 March 2026

Tehran has sounded an alarm about extensive damage to its cultural and historic sites as a result of the United States-I...

UN warns of record hunger, 45 million more at risk, if Iran war continues 

17 March 2026

News|US-Israel war on Iran Tens of millions more people will face acute hunger if the United States-Israel war on Iran, ...

Blood tech: The UK ambassador, the sex offender, Palantir, and Gaza 

17 March 2026

This is the second part in Al Jazeera’s Blood Tech series, looking at how governments around the world – including t...