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Some 57 per cent of respondents, including one in three Republicans, said the president’s policies have been unsteady as his efforts to tax imports have set off a global trade war, according to the two-day poll that closed on Wednesday. — Reuters pic

Majority of Americans see Trump’s economic moves as too erratic, poll finds

The video riled wildlife experts and animal lovers alike—and on Thursday, concern over it reached the top echelons of the Australian government. — Screen grab from Instagram

‘Leave the baby wombat alone’: Australia’s top diplomat slams US influencer’s viral video

A rare ‘super blue bloodmoon’ sighted at Singapore in 2018. — AFP pic

Rare ‘Blood Moon’ lunar eclipse to grace North and South American skies tonight

This photograph shows the Peace Palace, the seat of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in The Hague. — File pic via AFP

ICJ to hold hearings on Israel's humanitarian obligations to Palestinians next month

President Donald Trump departs the US Capitol following a Friends of Ireland luncheon with Irish Taoiseach Miche yesterday. — AFP pic

Steel at the heart of Trump’s new trade war as he imposes fresh tariffs

Pope Francis greets the crowd from the popemobile after the celebration of a mass marking the end of the Jubilee of Mercy, on November 20, 2016 in Vatican. — File pic via AFP

What we know so far about Pope Francis' health as Vatican says condition stable

NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, wearing SpaceX spacesuits, are seen as they prepare to depart the Neil  A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A on NASA's Kennedy Space Center to board the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft for the Crew-10 mission launch yesterday. — AFP pic

Nasa astronauts stranded on ISS face further delay after SpaceX launch scrapped

US President Donald Trump gestures alongside Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin (R) and his wife Mary O'Shea (L) during a St. Patrick's Day Reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington yesterday. — AFP pic

Trump targets political foes, officials in post-election crackdown        

People hold placards outside the USAID building, after billionaire Elon Musk, who is heading US President Donald Trump's drive to shrink the federal government, said work is underway to shut down the US foreign aid agency USAID, in Washington. — Reuters pic

UN warns US aid cuts a ‘seismic shock,’ says millions could die

Migrants bound for Colombia wait for a boat in Miramar, near Palenque, Panama, on March 5. — AFP pic

‘We’re not animals’: Reverse migration surges as migrants avoid detention-like shelters

A woman receives a doze of measles vaccine at a hospital in the Moroccan coastal city of Temara on February 27. — AFP pic

Morocco battles measles outbreak with vaccination drive as misinformation fuels vaccine hesitancy

People walk through water at a flooded area affected by rising sea levels and land subsidence in North Jakarta, Indonesia, November 20, 2024. China’s eastern city of Hangzhou and Indonesia’s capital of Jakarta topped the list of cities suffering from ‘climate whiplash’, or a rapid succession of prolonged floods and droughts, the study showed. — Reuters pic

Jakarta, Hangzhou top list of cities to face ‘whiplash’ of floods, droughts as temperatures rise, study warns

A Pakistan Army soldier stands guard next to a rescue train, after the attack on a train by separatist militants in Bolan, at the railway station in Mushkaf, Balochistan, Pakistan, March 12, 2025. — Reuters pic

Pakistan security forces free 190 hostages in train siege

US President Donald Trump has called climate change a scam, pulled Washington out of the key Paris Agreement for a second time, and ended US participation in leading climate initiatives and research. — AFP pic

Snorkel with me to understand climate change, Palau president tells Trump

Customers dine at the Hailao Huoguo, a new hotpot chain by Haidilao, in Beijing, China December 10, 2023. The Chinese hotpot giant said it would compensate over 4,000 diners who had visited one of its outlets in Shanghai after two diners urinated into their hotpot broth. — Reuters pic

Hot mess: China’s Haidilao to compensate thousands of customers over hotpot pee incident

A general view of the Scheveningen prison, on the day former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is expected to arrive at Rotterdam airport after his arrest at the request of the International Criminal Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, March 12, 2025. — Reuters pic

Ex-Philippine leader Duterte looking at 30 years in jail or life imprisonment if convicted by ICC, says Malacanang