Witness videos captured missile interceptors launching and burning debris raining from the sky near the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre.
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Pakistani government wants to ‘create anarchy’ in Afghanistan, claims Hamid Karzai | World News
Hamid Karzai has claimed that the Pakistani government wants to promote “anarchy and weakness” in Afghanistan to ensure the country is “downtrodden”.
Speaking to Sky’s Yalda Hakim, the former Afghan president condemned the bombing of his country by Islamabad.
Fighting began in late February when Pakistan began targeting Afghanistan with airstrikes that they claim targeted militant strongholds.
The conflict, which the United Nations estimates has displaced more than 100,000 people, intensified this week when Kabul said 400 people had been killed when a missile hit a hospital that treats drug addicts.
Mr Karzai – who led Afghanistan between 2002 and 2014 after the Taliban were forced from power – said that he had heard the “horrific sound” of the bombing himself, that his house had shaken and that the area around it had filled with smoke and dust.
The strike was, he said, an “extremely unfortunate event” in the history of the relationship between the two countries.
“The government of Pakistan has not been able to live with any Afghan government,” he told Sky News.
“They didn’t do this well with the government and the monarchist regime in Afghanistan and then the Republic and then, subsequently other governments and then the Republic again, during my time in office, I went there 20 times to seek a better relationship.”
He claimed that Pakistan’s current government is again repeating the same attempt to cripple Kabul.
Mr Karzai said: “The unfortunate fact is that the government of Pakistan does not wish to have a sensible, reasonable, civilised relationship with Afghanistan.
“They rely on creating anarchy and weakness and a downtrodden Afghanistan these years, in their interest, which is terribly wrong, which I hope they will change their minds and look for a more stable and civilised relationship with Afghanistan.”
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Mr Karzai added that he advised the Pakistani leadership to conduct itself in a “civilised way” with Afghanistan.
“Please stop the approaches that did not work in the past for decades and it may not work into the future,” he said.
Pakistan has said its strikes “precisely targeted military installations and terrorist support infrastructure, including technical equipment storage and ammunition storage of Afghan Taliban” and other militants in Kabul and Nangarhar.
It added that the facilities were being used against innocent Pakistani civilians, and also said “false and misleading” claims that the site was struck were intended to stir sentiment and cover “illegitimate support for cross-border terrorism”.
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Larijani’s warning to US, Israel before his killing | US-Israel war on Iran
Ali Larijani, the late secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, warned the US and Israeli that killing Iranian leaders would only strengthen the country. Larijani made the comments a week before he was killed in an Israeli strike.
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Former TV journalist accused of racially motivated highway shootings
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A former San Diego TV journalist is now accused of carrying out racially motivated shootings on a secluded mountain highway — allegedly questioning victims about their ethnicity before pulling the trigger.
San Diego County deputies arrested 46-year-old Ricardo Berron on Tuesday, March 10, at San Diego International Airport as he was preparing to leave for a vacation. Authorities said forensic evidence linked the former Univision and Telemundo reporter to two separate shootings on Palomar Mountain.
The first shooting occurred Oct. 6 along South Grade Road near the summit, according to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office.
Officials said deputies responded after receiving a report that a man had been shot at while parked along the scenic roadside.
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Ricardo Berron, a former San Diego television journalist, was arrested in connection with two shootings on Palomar Mountain that investigators said may be hate crimes. (KSWB)
The victim, identified by Fox 5 San Diego as Joseph, told the outlet the attack happened around 9:30 p.m. along Highway 76 as he sat in his car enjoying the view.
“I looked over my left shoulder and saw the silhouette of somebody holding a rifle at my head and wearing a hoodie,” Joseph told the outlet.
Joseph said the gunman asked if he was Mexican before firing.
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Authorities recovered a 9mm handgun from the Chula Vista home of former San Diego journalist Ricardo Berron during the investigation into two shootings on Palomar Mountain. (KSWB)
“I raised my hands and asked him not to shoot,” he recalled. “He asked me if I was Mexican. I responded yes. At that point, I saw him zero in on my head, and instinctively turned to the right. I heard the shot — it missed my face and caught my arm.”
The bullet shattered his window and severely damaged his arm, according to Fox 5. Joseph told the outlet the impact sent him over the center console and that he could feel blood running down his face.
Despite his injuries, Joseph said he managed to start his car and flee.
“I hit the gas — my car took off — and I heard a second shot. That second shot hit my rear passenger tire,” he said.
Joseph was able to drive to a nearby home and call for help. Deputies and paramedics arrived about an hour later, and he was taken to Palomar Medical Center, where doctors were able to save his arm, Fox 5 reported.
Authorities searched the Chula Vista home of former San Diego journalist Ricardo Berron during the investigation into two shootings on Palomar Mountain. (KSWB)
A second shooting occurred Feb. 23 in the same area. A man sitting inside his parked vehicle reported that a gunman walked up and fired once through the driver’s side window, narrowly missing him, officials said.
Authorities later executed a search warrant at Berron’s Chula Vista home, recovering a 9-millimeter handgun investigators believe was used in at least one of the shootings.
Both victims were Hispanic, and officials said the suspect made statements about their ethnicity before opening fire. Prosecutors are seeking hate crime enhancements.
Officials said they are not seeking any additional charges beyond those already announced.
When approached outside his home, Berron declined to comment and drove away without responding to questions, Fox 5 reported. His wife denied the allegations, telling reporters authorities have the wrong person.
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Berron, a husband and father of five, has since been released on bail and was scheduled to appear in court March 17.
Legal counsel for Berron could not be reached.
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Pakistan hopes steep cost of airstrikes on Taliban targets will protect against terror attacks | Pakistan
An escalating Pakistani campaign of airstrikes against targets in Afghanistan is aimed at forcing the Taliban authorities to abandon their support for Pakistani militants, according to officials and experts.
The strategy is to impose such a steep cost on the Taliban administration that they act to prevent attacks emanating from Afghanistan. Yet it carries the risk of spiralling violence.
Afghan authorities said on Tuesday that an overnight airstrike in Kabul had hit a drug rehabilitation centre, killing 400 people. Islamabad described that claim as propaganda, saying that the targets were “military and terrorist infrastructure”.
Since the 2021 Taliban takeover, waves of terrorist attacks have pummelled Pakistan, launched from what Islamabad considers to be sanctuaries in Afghanistan. Pakistan says that its patience has snapped, naming an operation launched at the end of last month Ghazab lil-Haq or “Righteous Fury”.
A senior Pakistani security official said that, as Pakistan was facing a rise in bloodshed, Afghanistan should also suffer, asking: “Why should they live in peace?”
The Taliban has denounced the airstrikes as a violation of sovereignty and vowed to retaliate. It has hinted at unleashing suicide bombers. “They should not think that they can martyr people in Kabul, destroy the city and disturb its security, while remaining safe in Islamabad,” the Taliban’s defence minister, Mohammad Yaqoob – son of the movement’s founder, Mullah Omar – said earlier this month.
On Tuesday, Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Taliban’s foreign minister, compared the airstrike to Israel’s actions in Gaza, “repeated with full cruelty by a Muslim neighbour”.
Some of the airstrikes are rumoured to have targeted Taliban leaders. Pakistan may eventually look for even more radical options.
In past decades, Islamabad backed armed opposition in Afghanistan, including the Taliban. But no obvious group now exists to stage an uprising, while experts in Pakistan have said that this strategy backfired repeatedly. Islamabad has called for a more “inclusive” government in Kabul.
In recent months, Pakistan also imposed other measures, such as closing the border for trade to landlocked Afghanistan and expelling hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees.
Mosharraf Zaidi, a spokesperson for Pakistan’s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, said that Pakistan had no quarrel with the Afghan people. He said the airstrikes were based on intelligence and as accurate as counter-terrorism operations anywhere.
“There’s one objective: protect the people of Pakistan from further terrorist attacks,” said Zaidi. “Under this[Taliban] regime, there is a clear and sustained protection, nurturing and support for terrorist groups that has to end.”
Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, formerly Pakistan’s most senior career diplomat, said that Islamabad had tried to negotiate with the Taliban, bilaterally and with the involvement of other countries as mediators, including China and Middle Eastern nations, without results.
“The Taliban are running the state as a militia, rather than a government that cares for its people,” said Chaudhry. “Pakistan’s actions are defensive, not offensive.”
Asif Durrani, Pakistan’s former special envoy for Afghanistan, said that the west had washed its hands of Afghanistan with the 2021 withdrawal of foreign forces, leaving Pakistan to deal with the fallout.
“Pakistan has borne the pain,” said Durrani. “This is payback time.” Durrani predicted that the Taliban government would not last, with tribal factions or other opponents emerging at some point in the future.
US-led international forces, present in Afghanistan for 20 years after the 9/11 terror attacks, had accused Pakistan of harbouring the Taliban. Islamabad says that Pakistani militants are now based in Afghanistan and that Afghans have also joined them.
Some analysts warned that just as those international and Afghan soldiers had failed to defeat the Taliban, a military onslaught from Pakistan would not work and had no clear off-ramp. Pakistan has always tried to avoid being sandwiched between a hostile Afghanistan to the west and the threat from its foe India to the east, a scenario it now confronts. The current US-Israeli war on Iran adds further instability along another of Pakistan’s borders.
Qamar Cheema, the executive director of Sanober Institute, a thinktank in Islamabad, said that Pakistan’s current military leadership – led by Field Marshal Asim Munir – was different. Munir has been described by the US president, Donald Trump, as his “favourite field marshal”.
“The military leadership at the moment has a view that we need to act hard, we need to act strong, we need to be bold and we need to deal with the threat wherever it is,” said Cheema. “Nothing is off the table.”
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Iranian women’s soccer players return home after Australian asylum
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Former Iranian wrestler Sardar Pashaei, like many, feels concern about the Iranian women’s soccer players who are returning to their home country after not standing for the national anthem and being offered asylum by Australia.
Pashei, who won the 1998 World Youth Championship, knows how athletes who protest are treated in Iran, and he especially knows how female athletes are treated there.
“If you are a woman, you have a different layer of discrimination. You know, so it’s a sexual harassment. It’s forcing you to wear something that you don’t want. And also, as a woman, you are banned from many sports,” Pashaei told Fox News Digital.
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Pashaei has seen close friends who are female athletes face this discrimination and are pursued by the regime.
“I know Soheila Farahani, she was a captain of the national volleyball team. She was sentenced to 74 lashes because there was a picture of her without hijab went public. So, this is the kind of example of the discrimination that they’re facing,” he said.
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“Shaqaiq, one of my good friends who was a captain of handball team … she was under a lot of pressure. And now I think she lives in a country that she does not want to make it public because of her safety. Because the Islamic regime really went after her, even outside of the country, in European soil to bring her back.”
Three of the six Iranian women’s soccer players who accepted asylum in Australia are returning to Iran. Tina Kordrostami, a councilor for the Australian City of Ryde, told Fox News Channel’s “Fox Report With Jon Scott” Saturday that the athletes are facing threats against their families.
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“I know families have even been detained. I know family members are missing. One thing I really would like for people in the West to understand is that Iranians within the country have in many ways given up on the West, and they are only relying on one another to survive this regime,” Kordrostami said. “Coercion is being used here, intimidation tactics.”
Pashaei says he wouldn’t be surprised if the players have “a forced confession.”
“So, the regime wants to say they’re loyal to their government. This was all so-called playing a game of the enemies. And I am sure they will be under pressure, investigated,” Pashaei said.
Pashaei remembers when he was competing with the difficulties that came with representing Iran under the Ayatollah.
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Iranian players pose for a team photo ahead of a Women’s Asian Cup soccer match against the Philippines in Robina, Australia, March 8, 2026. (Dave Hunt/AAPImage via AP, File)
“They always send the security people alongside with the team. They watch you. They wanna keep the presence of the regime right beside you. So, you feel that always,” he said.
“I remember when we were traveling, the members of intelligence agencies were walking behind our doors overnight, so we don’t go out. As soon as we went to the restaurant, they went there, took all of the alcoholic beverages, you know, pork food away from us.”
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‘Basics’ of life in Britain have been sold for profit, says Polanski | Zack Polanski
Successive governments have turned the UK from a manufacturing economy to one where the basics of life have been privatised and are rented back to people at a crushing cost, Zack Polanski will say.
In a speech billed as the Green leader’s biggest policy intervention since he took over as leader six months ago, Polanski will argue that decades of gradual economic rebalancing in favour of a minority who own assets has left much of the country vulnerable to economic shocks such as the current rise in fuel prices.
Polanski will call for the government to offer more support for households amid the uncertainty of the Iran conflict, asking for £8.4bn to be set aside to cover a possible increase in energy prices of £300 a household in the coming year.
A “sustained project of privatisation and deregulation has turned Britain from a place which made things people need into a place which made money for people who owned things”, he will say in a speech to the New Economics Forum thinktank in London.
“We live in rip-off Britain: an economy built to reward the few off the work of the many. A country where people work so hard and try to do the right thing but still struggle to afford the basics, and find themselves constantly cutting back.
“The very basics, the things we rely on to build the foundations of a good life, have been taken out of our hands, sold for profit – and then sold or rented back to us at crushing rates. The water that keeps us alive. The energy that warms us. The home that keeps us safe.
“We’ve stopped working to save for a deposit, a summer holiday or even to put a bit away for the future – so many of us are working just to cover the increasing cost of getting by every day.”
Polanski has overseen a surge in membership for the Greens in England and Wales, with the party now ahead of Labour and the Conservatives in some polls. The Greens won last month’s Gorton and Denton byelection.
While he has been an energetic media presence since becoming leader, Polanski has said relatively little on policy, in part because the Greens’ high decentralised structure means these are decided by members.
The speech will nonetheless include some specifics, including the call for more help on energy prices to be paid for by a proposed tightening of the existing windfall tax on energy companies.
More broadly, Polanski will set out a three-point vision for the economy, covering measures such as rent controls, re-nationalising water, and decoupling electricity prices from the cost of gas; changes to the tax system, including an already-announced proposal to equalise the rate of capital gains tax with income tax; and ways to change the wider fiscal framework to make it work more effectively.
The speech has been billed as a chance for Polanski to spell out his wider economic philosophy, beginning with a critique of recent decades of government, including the wave of privatisations under Margaret Thatcher and the later policy of austerity.
Another part of the speech will lament the economic impact of Brexit, saying it has left the economy between 6% and 8% smaller than it would have otherwise been. “Leaving the EU has been a sledgehammer to an already weak economy,” Polanski will claim.
Calling for a fundamentally changed philosophical approach to economic policy, he will say: “While successive governments have embraced the economics of managed decline, and actively corroded many of the things we hold dear, the human spirit is such that compassion and care will always remain, and it’s our job as politicians to harness that potential.”
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How ‘cruel’ friendship fraudsters are scamming older people | UK News
Older and vulnerable people are being targeted by “cruel” friendship fraudsters online, one of the UK’s biggest banks has warned.
TSB said criminals are preying on people’s loneliness and desire to make a connection.
People often make just one payment in such scams, but in one case, 60 payments had been made over four years, the bank said.
In this case, a customer in their late 60s was contacted on a message board, where the scammer posed as a young person looking to flee an abusive family and needing financial help.
The relationship spanned four years before it was reported.
In another case, a customer in their late 70s lost more than £4,000 after being targeted on social media.
After forming a friendship, the individual said they were unwell and urgently required help with medical bills.
As a result, the customer sent a series of payments and gift cards, before contact fizzled out and they realised it was fraud.
In a third case, a customer in their 70s befriended a new contact, and after regular conversations the scammer threatened to stop talking to them unless they sent gift cards and payments.
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TSB said the average loss per case of impersonation fraud, which involves any form of fraud in which scammers pretend to be a person or an organisation, is more than £3,100, according to the bank’s data.
TSB fraud expert Steph Harrison said: “Scammers are targeting older and vulnerable people’s life savings, by preying on their goodwill and desire for company and friendship, with the cruel and fake promise of online companionship.”
He said members of the public can help by checking in on friends and family, and warned those seeking online friendship to be wary whenever money is involved.
Caroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK, said: “So-called friendship fraud is an especially horrible and insidious type of scam and it’s good to see it highlighted in this way to help put us all on our guard.
“Older people who are lonely or bereaved are particularly vulnerable to being targeted, as criminals seek to exploit their isolation and yearning for friendship to part them from their money.”
She added: “Being scammed in this way can have devastating consequences with victims suffering catastrophic losses, destroying not just their finances but their health, wellbeing and capacity to trust other people.”
The charity works with older people across the county to help keep them safe from scams, Ms Abrahams said.
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Christina Haack addresses engagement rumors after ring speculation
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Christina Haack is shaking off the rumors and soaking up the sun.
“The Flip Off” star turned heads on Instagram Monday, sharing a radiant poolside photo from a tropical getaway. The 42-year-old lifestyle expert showcased a cream-colored crochet bikini featuring delicate floral details, paired with a matching mesh sarong.
Haack kept her vacation look casual and sporty, accessorizing with a black baseball cap with the logo for her champagne brand, Clé Cachée, and oversized aviator sunglasses. Holding a glass and a bottle of her own Clé Cachée bubbly, the mother of three appeared relaxed as she posed on a white towel with a scenic ocean backdrop.
The latest photo follows a flurry of social media speculation regarding the reality star’s relationship status. The rumor mill began spinning after Haack attended HGTV’s “Bachelor Mansion Takeover” event in Los Angeles March 12.
Christina Haack showcases a relaxed vacation look in a cream crochet bikini while promoting her champagne brand, Clé Cachée, in a photo shared to Instagram March 16, 2026. (Christina Haack/Instagram)
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At the event, the “Flip or Flop” alum wore a conspicuous bauble on her wedding finger, leading to reports suggesting she was ready to head back to the altar after three previous divorces. On March 15, Haack took to her Instagram stories to call out a report featuring a headline that claimed she “flashes a ring … as she says she WOULD get married again.”
“Bad reporting,” Haack wrote in response to the engagement reports, according to People. She clarified the jewelry causing the stir was actually a meaningful piece she has owned for a decade.
Christina Haack at HGTV’s first-ever event at the Bachelor Mansion to celebrate “Bachelor Mansion Takeover” March 12 in Los Angeles. (Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for HGTV)
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“That ring (that I’ve worn for almost 10 years) is a Cartier love ring (a gift to myself) with my kids initials,” she shared. The mother of three also pushed back on the rumor that she was looking to head back to the altar.
“And ‘Marriage is just not on my radar right now,’ was my exact quote,” she reminded her followers, correcting the record.
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The design, a staple from the luxury jeweler, serves as a tribute to her three children. Haack shares her eldest, daughter Taylor, 15, and son Brayden, 10, with her first husband, Tarek El Moussa. She also shares her youngest son, 6-year-old Hudson, with her second husband, Ant Anstead.
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The “Flip Off” star, 42, strikes a pose in a moss green gown at the Bachelor Mansion. Haack later clarified that her jewelry choice was a decade-old gift to herself. (Robin L Marshall/Getty Images for HGTV)
Despite the ring clarification, Haack confirmed her romance with current boyfriend Christopher Larocca is in a good place. Speaking with ExtraTV at the same HGTV event this month, she gushed about the relationship.
“Um, everything’s going good, going strong and, like, just nice, easy, great partner,” she said.
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The star’s love life has long been a fixture of public interest. Haack first rose to prominence alongside El Moussa, whom she married in 2009. After their 2018 divorce, she married British TV personality Ant Anstead, followed by real estate agent Josh Hall in 2021. Her split from Hall led to a contentious legal battle, with Haack even hiring powerhouse divorce attorney Laura Wasser to navigate a trial that wasn’t finalized until May 2025.
Amid the past drama, Haack has successfully navigated the waters of co-parenting and working alongside her exes. She stars with Tarek and his wife, Heather Rae El Moussa, on the house-flipping competition series “The Flip Off.”
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