Zelenskyy says Russia has carried out ‘hundreds of attacks’ against Ukraine this week
Ukrainian president calls for strengthened sanctions as he highlights weapons used against his country
Sun 9 Mar 2025 15.12 GMT
Poland says it may need alternative to Musk's Starlink in Ukraine
Poland, which pays for Ukraine’s Starlink internet services, may seek an alternative if Elon Musk’s company proves to be “unreliable”, the foreign minister said on Sunday after the billionaire speculated about turning off access to the system.
Starlink provides crucial internet connectivity to Ukraine and its military. US negotiators pressing Kyiv for access to Ukraine’s critical minerals have raised the possibility of cutting the country’s access to the service, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters in February.
More than 1,000 people killed in two days of clashes in Syria, war monitor says
About 745 civilians among those killed in fighting in Latakia province between security forces and fighters loyal to former president Assad
Sun 9 Mar 2025 08.23 GMT
More than 1,000 people, including 745 civilians, were killed in the two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and fighters loyal to the former Assad regime and ensuing revenge killings, a war monitor has said, one of the highest death tolls in Syria since 2011.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitor, said 745 civilians were killed mostly execution-style, while 125 Syrian security forces and 148 Assad loyalists were killed. Death tolls from the two days of fighting have varied wildly, with some estimates putting the final death toll even higher.
Military Funding Iran Seeks to Access Billions in Frozen Hard Currency
Iran needs hard currency for its military and to re-arm Hezbollah. Tehran is now apparently seeking to access billions of dollars that lie frozen in the accounts of a subsidiary of the German stock exchange.
Iran is apparently seeking to access billions of U.S. dollars. The money is currently deposited with a subsidiary of the Deutsche Börse, Germany’s stock exchange, and has been frozen there for years due to U.S. sanctions. DER SPIEGEL has learned that Tehran has apparently made initial attempts to secure at least a share of those assets, originally valued at just under $4.9 billion.
The securities of the Iranian central bank, Bank Markasi, are held by Clearstream in Luxembourg. Some of those securities are held through an Italian bank. Clearstream has frozen all accounts attributable to Bank Markasi.
Israeli far-right minister says Trump's plan to displace Gazans 'taking shape'
The plan proposed by US President Donald Trump to remove 2.4 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip was “taking shape”, Israel's far-right finance minister told the Israeli parliament on Sunday. Experts have said that forcibly removing Gazans would amount to a violation of international law.
Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Sunday that US President Donald Trump’s plan to remove Palestinians from war-battered Gaza was “taking shape”, despite widespread rejection by governments in the region.
“This plan is taking shape, with ongoing actions in coordination with the (US) administration,” Smotrich told an event in the Israeli parliament, adding that preparations were underway to form a managing body that would oversee displacement.
“This has the potential to create a historic change in the Middle East and for the state of Israel,” said Smotrich, who has repeatedly backed resuming the war against Hamas and has expressed support for re-establishing permanent Israeli presence in the territory.
Once-reluctant builders now using unmanned machinery, AI
By YOKO MASUDA/ Staff Writer
March 9, 2025 at 07:00 JST
Two green bulldozers smoothly spread a mixture of pebble and cement at the construction site of a mountainous dam, followed by four vibratory rollers that compacted the fresh layer into place.
By design, no one was at the wheel of any of these heavy machines.
Such autonomous equipment had previously been a rarity on construction sites. But with worker shortages hitting the industry, general contractors are now welcoming the technology.
Searching for Africa’s lost World War soldiers, a name and grave at a time
Historians dig into the past to uncover graves and commemorate the Africans who died fighting for Britain.
Ogoyi Ogunde belonged to a proud family. His father had carved a home for their clan out of the earth in an area thick with bush, and accumulated a wealth of cows and grain. He provided for them, creating a vibrant community more than a century ago.
As the eldest son, Ogunde was his father’s greatest pride – strong, intelligent, fit to shoulder the privilege and burden of leading the clan in the future. So when conscription officers came to their village one day and singled out Ogunde for the war – a war they had never heard of, a war that had nothing to do with them – his father pleaded with them not to take him.
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