International News

March 20 ------ Hong Kong aviation giant Cathay Pacific has suspended flights to and from Dubai and Riyadh until the end of April over the war in the Middle East. "In view of the developing situation in the Middle East," all Cathay Pacific flights to and from Dubai and Riyadh will be suspended "up to and including 30 April 2026," the company said in separate statements on Wednesday. "Further changes to our flight schedule may be needed in the coming days," it added. Customers

OSLO, Norway, March 20 ------ NATO chief Mark Rutte said that the military alliance's members were discussing the "best way" to open the Strait of Hormuz, through which a large chunk of the world's oil supply normally passes. "I have been in contact with many allies. We all agree, of course, that Strait has to open up again. And what I know is that allies are working together, discussing how to do that, what is the best way to do it," Rutte told a news conference during a vis

WASHINGTON, March 19 ------ President Donald Trump's administration will require citizens from 50 countries to post bonds of $15,000 to apply for U.S. entry, a State Department official said. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said 12 countries are being added to a list that already includes 38 other nations, largely in Africa. The expanded visa bond program, which requires those foreign nationals to pay $15,000 for a B1 or B2 visa for business and tourism, goe

March 19 ------ Israeli warplanes hit central Beirut in the early hours, destroying apartment buildings in some of the most intense airstrikes on the center of the Lebanese capital for decades, an expansion of the US-Israeli war against Iran. A day after killing Iran’s powerful security chief Ali Larijani in the highest-level assassination since the supreme leader died on the war’s first day, Israel said it had killed another top official, Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib.