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Der Krieg zwischen Israel, den USA und dem Iran geht in seine zweite Woche und die Lage im Nordirak zeigt, wie schnell sich der Konflikt regional ausweiten könnte. In Erbil schlagen immer wieder Drohnen ein, Flugabwehrfeuer ist am Himmel zu sehen, selbst zivile Orte werden vom Krieg überschattet.Im Gespräch mit Carolina Drüten, die gerade aus der kurdischen Region im Irak berichtet, geht es um die entscheidenden Fragen dieser Eskalation: Wie stark ist der Iran tatsächlich geschwächt? Welche Rolle könnten kurdische Kräfte in einer möglichen neuen Phase des Krieges spielen? Und wie realistisch wäre ein Regimewechsel in Teheran?Drüten beschreibt ein Szenario,…

Published on 12/03/2026 – 16:19 GMT+1 Global banks are taking precautionary steps across their financial hubs in the Gulf after Iran warned that financial institutions linked to the US and Israel in the region could become targets, as Tehran mulls further diversifying its attacks. The warning came after Iran claimed that a building linked to Bank Sepah in Tehran was attacked on Wednesday. Following the alleged strike, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) issued a statement threatening attacks on “economic centres and banks” linked to the US and Israel across the Gulf. In a continuation of its threats, the IRGC…

Published on 12/03/2026 – 16:44 GMT+1 The Trump administration is preparing to issue a temporary suspension of the Jones Act, a century-old maritime law that restricts the movement of cargo between American ports, as Washington scrambles to contain oil prices surging in the wake of the Iran war. According to Bloomberg, the 30-day waivers for the Jones Act would allow foreign tankers to help supply refiners on the US East Coast with fuel from the Gulf Coast and elsewhere in the country. The move is one of several options the Trump administration is pursuing to stem rising crude and petrol…

In news that will delight all fans of Infernal’s 2004 pop banger, the night train from Paris to Berlin is set to restart later this month. ÖBB and SNCF stopped running its night train service on this route – which only launched in 2023 – in mid-December last year. Now European Sleeper is set to start its service between the French and German capitals from 26 March. Trains will travel from Paris on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, and from Berlin on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The journey takes around 18 hours and leaves Paris at 6:03 pm CET, arriving in…

Updated: 12/03/2026 – 15:45 GMT+1 Casts of victims of Pompeii’s tragic destruction after Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 are going on display together for the first time in a new permanent exhibition. The residents are captured in the positions in which they died, alongside everyday items, buried for centuries under lava and ash. … More

BRUSSELS — The European Commission has proposed sending a fact-finding mission to a contested Soviet-era pipeline in an attempt to resolve a bitter row between Kyiv and Budapest and unlock a major tranche of financial support for Ukraine. “We have proposed a mission to inspect the pipeline to Ukraine,” Commission spokesperson Anna-Kaisa Itkonen told reporters Thursday, adding that Ukraine had yet to respond to the request. For weeks, Hungary has refused to approve a €90 billion EU loan for Ukraine over the Druzhba pipeline, which transports oil from eastern Russia to Central Europe and has been offline since early January.

Published on 12/03/2026 – 15:46 GMT+1 The European Commission on Thursday rejected accusations that it exports industrial overcapacity to the US, after Washington launched fresh trade investigations targeting the EU and other partners over alleged unfair practices related to excess production. Following a February US Supreme Court ruling that 2025 tariffs were illegal, the White House is seeking new legal grounds to impose new duties as part of its nationalist trade policy. But EU officials had already warned the move could undermine last summer’s lopsided Turnberry trade deal, which the Commission considered its best possible outcome. “The sources of such…

The leading center-right candidate, Rachida Dati, who has turned these reports into one of her campaign’s core issues, said on Thursday that members of her group in the city council had “alerted” Grégoire as early as 2015. At that time, the Socialist candidate was the deputy mayor of Paris in charge of public employment. “[Grégoire] said ‘move along, there’s nothing to see here’,” Dati said in an interview with CNews Thursday. She accused the outgoing administration of having “given sexual predators a second chance.” Grégoire, who early in his campaign said he had also been a victim of child abuse,…

Published on 12/03/2026 – 14:14 GMT+1 Iran could target American Big Tech as tensions with the United States continue to escalate, according to the Iranian news agency Tasnim, which has ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The news agency wrote on X that assets of companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, NVIDIA, IBM, and Palantir in roughly 30 locations throughout the Middle East are Iran’s “new targets in the region.” The message claimed that these sites have been identified as “enemy technology infrastructure.” Several locations highlighted by Tasnim are in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and in…

Published on 12/03/2026 – 13:58 GMT+1•Updated 14:03 Danish chef René Redzepi, co-founder of Noma, the highly-acclaimed restaurant, has resigned from the firm following allegations he’s abused and mistreated staff for years. It comes after corporate backers pulled out from sponsoring the Los Angeles Noma pop-restaurant which opened on Wednesday. Redzepi was due to head operations at the establishment with a meal will cost around €1,500. In a post on Instagram, Redzepi, the “New Nordic” cuisine innovator said: “After more than two decades of building and leading this restaurant, I’ve decided to step away.” “I have worked to be a better…