Global events and international developments affecting markets.
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Hezbollah's strikes on Israel for a second straight day have pulled Lebanon deeper into a widening regional confrontation following a U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran. Israel responded with additional troop deployments to southern Lebanon and sustained air strikes, including hits in Beirut. The Lebanese government moved to outlaw Hezbollah's military ac…
Ukraine has sought a pledge for rapid European Union membership as part of a potential peace deal, with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy proposing a 2027 accession date. Many EU governments are resistant to any reform that would accelerate accession, fearing it would undermine reform incentives and create political backlash at home. Kyiv’s lead EU neg…
Lawmakers in Japan and Taiwan, and analysts across the region, are raising alarms that U.S. military engagement in Iran and allied strikes with Israel could draw away naval and munitions resources that currently underpin deterrence in the Indo-Pacific. Officials have pressed Tokyo’s bureaucracy for explanations about evacuation planning, energy mar…
Russia’s foreign minister told visiting Brunei officials that Moscow has not seen evidence Iran is developing nuclear weapons, a claim he said removes the primary justification offered for recent U.S. and Israeli military action. Sergei Lavrov also warned that the attack’s effects are being felt across the region, including economic costs and civil…
With roughly 100 days until the 2026 World Cup begins in the United States, Mexico and Canada, demand for match tickets has surged even as prices climb and security and immigration concerns ripple through the fan base. Nearly two million tickets were sold in the initial sales phases and demand outstripped supply by more than 30 times, but worries s…
Diplomats in Geneva are entering a decisive stretch of talks on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS), with the chair of the CCW Group of Governmental Experts warning that delays risk being overtaken by rapid technological change. Between now and the mandate's conclusion in September, 128 states will consider whether to approve by consensus a no…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the campaign against Iran would not continue for years, calling it potentially quick and decisive, as the conflict expanded beyond Iran and Israel to include Hezbollah in Lebanon and strikes on Gulf states hosting U.S. forces. Attacks and counterattacks have struck cities, military bases and maritime r…
U.S. President Donald Trump hosted German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the White House for talks that ranged from recent U.S.-Israeli military strikes on Iran to Trump’s renewed tariff threats and Merz’s recent visit to China. The meeting comes as Germany and France move to deepen nuclear deterrence cooperation and after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling…
A recent U.S. military campaign that included the capture of Venezuela's president and strikes that killed Iran's supreme leader has placed Chinese leader Xi Jinping in a diplomatically awkward position ahead of a proposed summit with U.S. President Donald Trump. Beijing's restrained reaction underscores its limited ability to influence U.S. milita…
Saudi Arabia's defence ministry says two drones struck the U.S. embassy in Riyadh early Tuesday, producing a small fire and some material damage. The incident occurred amid wider regional drone and missile activity and prompted shelter-in-place advisories for U.S. citizens in several Saudi cities. Authorities have reported no injuries and an indepe…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the U.S. and Israel’s campaign against Iran may take “some time” but will not extend for years, rejecting comparisons to protracted regional conflicts. The air campaign began with strikes on Tehran that killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and has triggered Iranian reprisals and missile strikes af…
The U.S. Interior Department described a recently exposed internal database outlining proposed changes to historical and cultural content at national park sites as deliberative draft material and said employees who manipulated and leaked the files would face consequences. The database showed planned revisions touching on topics including African-Am…
Two U.S. officials said on Monday that U.S. Marines fired on demonstrators who breached the outer wall of the U.S. consulate in Karachi over the weekend. The incident, which officials described as a rare use of force at a diplomatic mission, occurred as protests swept Pakistan following reports that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was…
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived in Australia on March 3 to strengthen bilateral ties between the two nations he describes as "middle powers" amid what he has called a "rupture" in the global order. The visit, part of a wider Asia-Pacific tour that includes stops in Japan and India, will focus on defence and maritime security, critical m…
Detainee advocates say Iran is holding at least six U.S. citizens or permanent residents and that thousands more dual nationals or green-card holders who remained in Iran despite U.S. warnings could be at risk of detention or leverage amid a sharp escalation in hostilities between the United States, Israel and Iran. The situation is compounded by u…
The U.S. Department of State has ordered American citizens to immediately leave more than a dozen countries across the Middle East, citing safety risks during an intensifying round of strikes between the United States, Israel and Iran. The advisory names specific countries, follows an evacuation of U.S. Embassy staff in Amman and comes as Washingto…
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced on March 2 that her office is investigating potentially unlawful conduct by federal agents involved in Operation Metro Surge. The office has created a portal for the public to submit videos and other evidence alleging crimes by Gregory Bovino and other federal officers. The probe follows the fatal sh…
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated the United States would not deliberately target a school after Iranian state media reported that more than 160 people were killed in an attack on a girls’ elementary school in Minab, southern Iran. The reported strike occurred on the first day of U.S. and Israeli operations against Iran, drawing condemnati…
A February 28 threat assessment from the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Intelligence and Analysis warns that Iran and allied proxy groups probably present a continuing risk of targeted attacks against the United States following reports of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s death in strikes attributed to Israel and the United States. While …
Jurors have begun deliberations in the rare criminal trial of a father accused of arming his son, who used the weapon in a September 2024 attack at a Georgia high school that left four people dead and seven wounded. The father, charged with multiple counts including second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter, denied culpability during an 11-…
U.S. first lady Melania Trump presided over a United Nations Security Council meeting addressing children and education in conflict, convened under the U.S. rotating council presidency. The session - titled "Children, Technology, and Education in Conflict" - took place days after U.S. and Israeli military strikes on Iran that prompted U.N. warnings…
Cuban authorities say they arrested 10 Panamanian citizens for creating signs with what officials described as "subversive content." The Interior Ministry said the group was sent from Panama with a promise of payment, and that the detentions follow a separate attempted maritime incursion by armed Cuban exiles. Officials tied both incidents to the i…
Law enforcement in Austin, Texas, continues a broad investigation into a mass shooting outside a popular West 6th Street bar that left at least two dead and many wounded. Authorities say it is too early to conclude whether the attacker was motivated by the war in Iran or by any other single factor, and the FBI is examining possible terror connectio…
Colombia's trade ministry issued a draft decree raising duties on roughly 300 Ecuadorian products from 30% to 50%, in response to Ecuador's announcement that it will increase tariffs on Colombian goods to 50% starting March 1. Bogotá cites provisions of the Cartagena Agreement as legal justification and says Quito's move violates the bloc's tariff …
Acting CDC director Jay Bhattacharya reiterated that the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine is the most dependable measure to prevent measles spread, warning that there is no cure for the disease. He said the agency is deploying resources and standing ready to provide technical staff, laboratory assistance, vaccines and therapeutics to state and l…
