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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks at a press conference at the Lutfi Kurdar Conference Center on the sidelines of the 51st Foreign Ministers’ Council of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul, June 22, 2025.Yuzan Kose | AFP | Getty ImagesIran’s foreign minister said on Thursday that his country was “not asking for a ceasefire” with the United States and Israel and that he “sees no reason to negotiate” after nearly a week of war.Foreign Minister Abbas Aragushi also said in an exclusive interview with Tom Lamas on NBC Nightly News that Iran is “confident” that it can…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico and the United States said Thursday they will begin talks on March 16 ahead of a review of the free trade agreement that has shaped both countries’ economies and stabilized some of their trade despite President Donald Trump’s ever-shifting tariff policies.The bilateral trade talks come ahead of a review scheduled for later this year of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the latest version of the free trade agreement between the United States, Mexico and Canada dating back to the early 1990s that has linked the economies of the three North American countries. Because many Mexican…

Thousands of flights have been canceled and hundreds of thousands of travelers are stranded as war rages in the Middle East. More than 11,000 flights scheduled to depart from major airports in 10 countries have been canceled since the US and Israel attacked Iran on February 28, according to data from Flightradar24. Flight data paints a grim picture of empty flight paths, which typically cross crowded skies. Some airports and airlines in the Persian Gulf have completely suspended normal operations. As of March 4, 10 countries had completely or partially closed their airspace since the airstrikes, according to Flightradar 24.…

George Russell has pointed to Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc as Mercedes’ main title threats ahead of the 2026 F1 season.Russell is seen as favorite for the title by bookmakers and also by Sky Sports F1 experts, given Mercedes’ form in pre-season testing and their advantage after the last changes to the power unit regulations in 2014. Ferrari set the fastest lap time at the Bahrain test, but Mercedes was much faster on the more representative long runs, so the Silver Arrows didn’t seem to be at full strength over the entire lap. Asked who he thought were Mercedes’ biggest…

Meta is facing a new lawsuit over its AI smart glasses and their lack of privacy after an investigation by a Swedish newspaper found that employees of a Kenyan-based subcontractor were reviewing footage of customers’ glasses. It included sensitive content such as nudity, sex, and using the toilet. Meta claimed it blurred faces in the images, but sources disputed that the blurring worked consistently, the report noted. The news prompted the UK regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office, to investigate the matter. Now, the tech giant is also facing a lawsuit in the United States. In a new complaint, plaintiffs Gina…

Stocks @ Night is a daily newsletter delivered after hours, giving you the first information about tomorrow and the last information about today. Sign up for free to receive it straight to your inbox. Here’s what CNBC TV producers had their eye on and what they’re looking for in the upcoming session. Berkshire Hathaway Thursday Morning on “Squawk Box” Becky Quick of “Squawk Box” will have an exclusive interview with CEO Greg Abel Thursday at 7 a.m. ET. Berkshire Hathaway’s A shares are down about 10% from their highs. A shares rose 1.3% on Wednesday to close at $730,707.01. B…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Thursday subtly criticized rival Anthropic Inc., saying he thinks it’s “bad for society” when companies start abandoning their commitment to democratic processes because “some people don’t like the people in charge right now.””Government is considered more powerful than private business,” Altman said at Morgan Stanley’s Technology, Media and Telecom conference.Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei criticized Altman’s ties to the Trump administration in a memo to employees on Friday, the Information reported. Amodei wrote that while Altman “praises Trump like a dictator,” Antropic doesn’t “praise Trump like a dictator.”The Pentagon has been at loggerheads with Anthropic in…

Congressman Tony Gonzalez (R-Texas) gives a television news interview at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, February 3, 2026. Bill Clark | CQ-Roll Call Inc. | Getty ImagesHouse Republican leaders on Thursday called on Texas Republican Rep. Tony Gonzalez to withdraw his bid for re-election after he admitted to having an affair with a staffer.The House Ethics Committee announced Wednesday that it is investigating Gonzalez’s relationship with aide Regina Santos-Aviles, who committed suicide in September. Later Wednesday, Gonzalez appeared on a conservative radio show and admitted for the first time that he had had an affair, saying it was a “misjudgment.”After…

The bill was filed after an anonymous Polymarket user made more than $500,000 by taking the position that the U.S. would attack Iran hours before it did.listen to this article | 4 minutesinformationPublished March 5, 2026March 5, 2026Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareplus 2 googleAdd Al Jazeera to GoogleinformationTwo Democratic U.S. senators are planning to introduce a bill that would ban members of Congress, the president, and the vice president from contracting for trading events on prediction market platforms such as Calci and Polymarket.According to CNBC, which first reported the story, Sens. Jeff Merkley, a Democrat from Oregon,…

Hong Kong/Beijing — In quick succession, US President Donald Trump has removed two of Beijing’s closest allies: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The former was abducted from Caracas in an extraordinary overnight raid by US special forces and is currently shackled in a New York detention center. The latter was killed in a daring daylight bombing of central Tehran during a joint US-Israeli mission. In the aftermath, China reacted angrily, accusing the United States of detaining and killing leaders of sovereign nations and of apparently attempting regime change while expressing friendship with Iran. But Beijing…