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New Zealand to tighten immigration rules amid crime concerns
WELLINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) - New Zealand's government will introduce legislation on Wednesday to tighten deportation, asylum and immigration enforcement rules, saying the changes are needed to tac...
Mar 17, 2026
El Salvador reforms constitution to allow for life sentences
March 17 (Reuters) - El Salvador's Congress on Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment to allow for life sentences for charges including murder, rape, and terrorism, as the government of President...
Mar 17, 2026
Russia's Rosatom condemns strike on territory of Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant
March 17 (Reuters) - Rosatom, Russia's state nuclear energy corporation, condemned a strike on the territory of Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant on Tuesday and called for de-escalation around the fa...
Mar 17, 2026
Factbox-Facts about deceased Iranian security chief Ali Larijani
March 17 (Reuters) - Ali Larijani, a senior adviser to Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been killed at the age of 67 by a U.S.-Israeli air attack in Tehran, Iran's semi-official ...
Mar 17, 2026
Five people die in fire outside Pemex's Olmeca refinery in Mexico
MEXICO CITY, March 17 (Reuters) - Five people died outside Mexico's Olmeca oil refinery after "oily waters" around the perimeter caught fire, state-run oil firm Pemex said on Tuesday, the latest incid...
Mar 17, 2026
Ali Larijani, Iran's ultimate backroom powerbroker, killed in Israeli airstrike
March 17 (Reuters) - Veteran Iranian politician Ali Larijani was one of the most powerful figures in the Islamic Republic, an architect of its security policy, and a close adviser to Ayatollah Ali Kha...
Mar 17, 2026
US carrier Ford, deployed in war with Iran, to go to port temporarily after fire
By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON, March 17 (Reuters) - The U.S. aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford, deployed in operations against Iran, is expected to temporarily pull into port after a fire on...
Mar 17, 2026
Ilia II, patriarch who led Georgian Church out of the Soviet Union, dies at 93
(Corrects to remove reference to Eduard Shevardnadze being the first post-Soviet president of Georgia in paragraph 9 of March 17 story) By Lucy Papachristou TBILISI, March 17 (Reuters) - The spiritual...
Mar 17, 2026
Iran confirms security chief Ali Larijani killed, Iranian media reports
March 17 (Reuters) - Iran's security chief Ali Larijani has been killed, Iranian media confirmed on Tuesday. (Reporting by Yomna Ehab, Editing by Franklin Paul)
Mar 17, 2026
Venezuelan opposition leader Machado to participate in Houston energy conference next week
HOUSTON, March 17 (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace prize winner Maria Corina Machado is scheduled to participate in the CERAWeek conference by S&P in Houston next week, accordi...
Mar 17, 2026
