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People hold signs and flags as they march during the "No Kings" national day of protest in Chicago on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 29, 2026
Huge turnout for protests against Trump across U.S. on ‘No Kings’ day
The anti-Trump mood has spilled beyond U.S. borders, with rallies in Amsterdam, Madrid and Rome, where 20,000 people marched under a heavy police presence.
Employees of Windsor-based Fastsigns, which designs, produces and installs custom business signage and graphics work, in Windsor, Ontario, on March 20
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Mar 29, 2026
On Canada’s tariff front line, business stalls over U.S. trade deal jitters
Windsor’s economy has been on a roller-coaster ride for the past ⁠year as Trump went back and forth on tariffs.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance speaks during a visit to the Engineering Design Services manufacturing facility in Auburn Hills, Michigan on March 18.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 29, 2026
Vance wins CPAC conservative meeting’s 2028 presidential straw poll
About 53% of the more than ​1,600 attendees who voted in the poll chose Vance.
A Palestinian man climbs on the remnants of an Iranian missile that landed in the Israeli-occupied West Bank village of Hares on Tuesday.
WORLD
Mar 29, 2026
U.S. can only confirm about a third of Iran’s missile arsenal destroyed
Iran’s drone capability may be similarly depleted, according to one source.
Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani receives Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Lusail Palace in Doha on Saturday.
WORLD / FOCUS
Mar 29, 2026
‘Risky moment’: Ukraine treads tightrope with Gulf arms deals
Zelenskyy started offering U.S. allies in the region deals to get their hands on Ukrainian drone interceptors and has dispatched over 200 military experts.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attend a meeting in New Delhi in December last year.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 28, 2026
Trump’s Iran war pushes India to rekindle old friendship with Russia
Sources say India is considering buying crude oil from Russia, which would be in violation of Western sanctions, as fuel prices skyrocket.
Smoke rises from Dubai International Airport on March 16 as Iran kept up its Gulf attacks.
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Mar 28, 2026
Gulf states tell U.S. ending war isn’t enough: Iran’s capabilities must be degraded
The big question confronting Gulf policymakers is no longer how the Iran war ends, but what kind of regional order follows.
A model of lunar lander "Resilience," operated by ispace, is displayed at a venue where ispace employees monitored the company's attempt to land on the moon, in Tokyo, on June 6.
JAPAN
Mar 27, 2026
Japan’s Ispace delays NASA-sponsored moon landing to 2030
The announcement highlights a murky outlook for the venture, as the U.S. revamps missions with commercial and international partners to send ​astronauts to the moon before China.
A woman holds a poster depicting Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei during an anti-U.S. and anti-Israeli rally in Tehran on Thursday.
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Mar 27, 2026
Iran may believe it has the upper hand as Trump seeks talks
Iranian officials have insisted all week that no negotiations are taking place, even mocking the U.S. leader for “negotiating with himself.”
Arctic sea ice reached its lowest level ever recorded, a leading U.S. climate observatory has said.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Mar 27, 2026
Arctic sea ice at lowest level ever this winter
This year’s maximum ice level was reached on March 15 — a week earlier than last year.
Japan’s Cabinet approved a bill to create the National Intelligence Secretariat and Council, but unlike the U.S. intelligence model with independent oversight, placing the prime minister in charge risks conflicts that could undermine effectiveness.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 27, 2026
Will Japan’s new National Intelligence Council function properly?
The most important concept is the independence of intelligence services from policymaking.
Travelers wait in line at a TSA checkpoint at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, on Thursday.
WORLD
Mar 27, 2026
Trump orders government to pay airport security workers
Nearly 500 airport security officers ​have quit since the start of a partial government shutdown in February.
SMIC, China's largest chipmaker, has been heavily sanctioned by the U.S. government over alleged ties to the Chinese ‌military.
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 27, 2026
China’s top chipmaker has supplied chipmaking tech to Iran military, U.S. officials say
The officials said SMIC, which had been heavily sanctioned by the U.S. government over alleged ties to the Chinese ‌military, began sending ‌the tools to Iran roughly a year ago.
Military vehicles carrying intercontinental ballistic missiles drive past Tiananmen Square during a military parade in Beijing in 2019.
WORLD
Mar 27, 2026
States deploying more nuclear weapons, monitor warns
Nearly all of the nine nuclear-armed states have begun increasing their arsenals or have announced plans to do so, a report found.
U.S. Marines during training in Okinawa last year. The U.S. has ordered thousands of troops to the Middle East, fueling fears that U.S. President Donald Trump is gearing up for exactly the sort of risky ground invasion that he once campaigned against.
WORLD / FOCUS
Mar 27, 2026
U.S. troop moves fan fears of a risky ground attack on Iran
Iran has publicly rejected Trump’s diplomatic outreach and threatened massive retaliation if the U.S. does put boots on the ground in a bid to break Tehran’s will.
A billboard in Tehran depicts Iranians supporting their country. The U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran may have convinced Iranian strategists that they have little to gain by forswearing a nuclear bomb or ⁠staying in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation ‌Treaty.
WORLD
Mar 27, 2026
Iran hard-liners ramp up calls for a nuclear bomb, sources say
While Western countries have long believed that Iran wants the bomb, it has always denied that, saying former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had banned nuclear weapons.
A maze of crude oil pipe and equipment at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in Freeport, Texas. While U.S. officials have said the spike in oil prices during the war with Iran will be short-lived, other nations aren't so convinced.
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Mar 27, 2026
Trump officials tout U.S. energy dominance as global oil executives warn of supply crisis
The contrasting messages relayed to industry leaders at the annual CERAWeek conference in Houston reflected the different political realities in the U.S. and the rest of the world.
Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Court House in New York City on Thursday, in this courtroom sketch.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 27, 2026
Maduro appears in court to fight narco-terrorism case
Prosecutors claim the ousted Venezuelan leader, who was seized by the U.S. military on Jan. 3, played a key role in a conspiracy to traffic cocaine into the U.S.
Tanker trucks line up at an oil terminal in Yokohama earlier this month amid surging oil prices due to the Iran conflict.
EDITORIALS
Mar 27, 2026
Iran war exposes the global economy’s vulnerability
Oil is the Achilles heel of the global economy. Skyrocketing gasoline prices get considerable attention with good reason, but their real impact is more extensive than imagined.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the National Republican Congressional Committee's annual President's Dinner at Union Station in Washington on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 26, 2026
Trump plans May visit to China for talks with Xi after Iran war delay
Trump’s effort to reschedule the trip reflected his eagerness to project confidence in a challenging Middle ​East war while managing a tense relationship with Beijing.

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