A residential building damaged by a strike in Tehran, Iran, March 23, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS |
- In the US, the chairman of the Conservative Political Action Conference said he plans to use its annual gathering this week to rein in Republican infighting, warning that divisions could hurt the party in November's midterm elections.
- Long lines were reported at major US airports as the Transportation Security Administration said the number of airport security officers quitting had jumped to more than 480 since the mid-February start of a partial government shutdown.
- Ousted Venezuelan President NicolĂ¡s Maduro returns to a Manhattan court where he will argue that drug trafficking charges against him should be thrown out more than two months after he and his wife were captured in a surprise US military raid in Caracas.
- Cuba's healthcare system, long seen as a great achievement of the 1959 revolution and decades of Communist rule, has suffered obvious decline for years as a failing economy and punishing US economic sanctions take their toll. That decline has acceleratedwith the oil blockade imposed by the United States this year.
- A resolution proposed by Ghana at the United Nations to recognise transatlantic slavery as the "gravest crime against humanity" and calling for reparations has been adopted despite resistance from Europe and the US.
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