Updated: Mar 17th, 2026 Pakistani airstrike on a major addiction treatment hospital in Kabul killed more than 400 people and injured at least 250 others, Taliban officials and local media reported, in what could become one of the deadliest incidents in the Afghan capital. According to officials of the Taliban-led government, the strike targeted the...
Updated: Mar 17th, 2026 Facilities inside the US Embassy compound in Baghdad’s Green Zone caught fire after the embassy was attacked early Tuesday. Two booby-trapped drones landed within the embassy perimeter and the subsequent explosions sparked a fire visible from outside the complex, a source from Iraq’s Interior Ministry told Chinese on condition of anonymity....
Updated: Mar 17th, 2026 More than 20 drones have been shot down over Moscow since midnight Tuesday, the Russian news agency TASS reported. In the last three days, over 180 drones have been downed, marking the largest wave of Ukrainian drone attacks on the Russian capital this year, said Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. Moscow authorities...
Instagram will discontinue support for end-to-end encrypted messaging from May 8, 2026, the platform has confirmed, meaning users seeking enhanced privacy protection for their chats will have to rely on other services. The photo and short-video sharing platform, owned by Meta, announced the change through a notice on its website and advised users to download...
Updated: Mar 16th, 2026 Representative image A new study has demonstrated that chickpea plants can grow and even produce seeds in simulated lunar soil when combined with biological treatments, offering a potential pathway for sustainable food production during long-term missions to the Moon. The research, titled “Bioremediation of lunar regolith simulant through mycorrhizal fungi and...