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March 4, 2026
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Republican contest in May could provide Democrats with opening to finally win over staunchly red stateSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxNeither John Cornyn nor Ken Paxton were able to secure 50% of the vote on Tuesday, meaning that the two Republicans must face again in a runoff election on 26 May.The four-term Republican US senator Cornyn has maintained throughout his campaign that a victory for attorney general Paxton – a scandal-scarred Maga darling and conservative culture warrior – could “risk everything we’ve worked so hard to build over these many years”. Continue reading…
Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate are set to vote on March 4th on a bipartisan war powers resolution aiming to stop the military campaign against Iran and require that any hostilities against it be authorised by Congress. This comes as Trump faces little voter support for the war. But lawmakers' efforts to curb Trump's ability to "goad alone with Israel in this war against Iran are almost sure to fail", warns FRANCE 24's Douglas Herbert.
Fears US-Israeli onslaught could lead regime to push for bomb or embolden other groups to steal uranium stockpileMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe US-Israeli onslaught against Iran is intended to resolve a 24-year standoff over Tehran’s nuclear programme, but it runs the risk of backfiring and driving the regime towards making a secret bomb, proliferation experts have warned.The regime in Tehran has long insisted that the programme is for civilian purposes and it has no intention of making a nuclear weapon. However, since two undeclared sites, for uranium enrichment and heavy water plutonium production, were discovered in 2002, the programme has been treated with intense suspicion. Continue reading…
Groundsman stumbles across room, sealed for more than 100 years, that was part of 12th-century Manchester hallA sinkhole that opened up on a Manchester golf course has exposed a wine cellar abandoned for more than a century.The cellar, along with dozens of empty wine and port bottles, was discovered by a groundsman who assumed the hole was nothing more than a collapsed drain. Continue reading…
The Minister of Water and Sanitation, Ms Pemmy Majodina, together with the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) Acting Head, Mr Leonard Lekgetho, will on Thursday, 05 March 2026, launch the Water Sector Anti-Corruption Forum (WSACF), a strategic platform in partnership with the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to coordinate efforts to prevent, detect, investigate, and respond to corruption within the water sector.
The post Water And Sanitation Ministry, In Partnership With The SIU, To Launch The Water Sector Anti-corruption Forum appeared first on Infrastructure news.
Republican contest in May could provide Democrats with opening to finally win over staunchly red stateSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxNeither John Cornyn nor Ken Paxton were able to secure 50% of the vote on Tuesday, meaning that the two Republicans must face again in a runoff election on 26 May.The four-term Republican US senator Cornyn has maintained throughout his campaign that a victory for attorney general Paxton – a scandal-scarred Maga darling and conservative culture warrior – could “risk everything we’ve worked so hard to build over these many years”. Continue reading…
Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate are set to vote on March 4th on a bipartisan war powers resolution aiming to stop the military campaign against Iran and require that any hostilities against it be authorised by Congress. This comes as Trump faces little voter support for the war. But lawmakers' efforts to curb Trump's ability to "goad alone with Israel in this war against Iran are almost sure to fail", warns FRANCE 24's Douglas Herbert.
Fears US-Israeli onslaught could lead regime to push for bomb or embolden other groups to steal uranium stockpileMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe US-Israeli onslaught against Iran is intended to resolve a 24-year standoff over Tehran’s nuclear programme, but it runs the risk of backfiring and driving the regime towards making a secret bomb, proliferation experts have warned.The regime in Tehran has long insisted that the programme is for civilian purposes and it has no intention of making a nuclear weapon. However, since two undeclared sites, for uranium enrichment and heavy water plutonium production, were discovered in 2002, the programme has been treated with intense suspicion. Continue reading…
Groundsman stumbles across room, sealed for more than 100 years, that was part of 12th-century Manchester hallA sinkhole that opened up on a Manchester golf course has exposed a wine cellar abandoned for more than a century.The cellar, along with dozens of empty wine and port bottles, was discovered by a groundsman who assumed the hole was nothing more than a collapsed drain. Continue reading…
The Minister of Water and Sanitation, Ms Pemmy Majodina, together with the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) Acting Head, Mr Leonard Lekgetho, will on Thursday, 05 March 2026, launch the Water Sector Anti-Corruption Forum (WSACF), a strategic platform in partnership with the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to coordinate efforts to prevent, detect, investigate, and respond to corruption within the water sector.
The post Water And Sanitation Ministry, In Partnership With The SIU, To Launch The Water Sector Anti-corruption Forum appeared first on Infrastructure news.