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US senators to grill Trump intelligence team, weeks into Iran war

WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) – U.S. senators get a chance on Wednesday to question top aides to ​President Donald Trump in public about national security nearly three weeks into the Iran war as the Senate intelligence committee holds its ‌annual hearing on worldwide threats to the United States. The hearing is likely to focus on the Middle East conflict that began on February 28, as lawmakers – including some of Trump’s fellow Republicans as well as Democrats – have said they want more information about a war that has killed thousands of people, disrupted the lives of millions and shaken

US eases Venezuela oil sanctions as Trump seeks to boost world oil supply during Iran war

WASHINGTON, March 18, 2026 (AP) — U.S. companies will be allowed to do business with Venezuela’s state-owned oil and gas company after the Treasury Department eased sanctions, with some limitations, on Wednesday as the Trump administration looks for ways to boost world oil supplies during the Iran war. The Treasury issued a broad authorization allowing Petróleos de Venezuela S.A, or PDVSA, to directly sell Venezuelan oil to U.S. companies and on global markets, a massive shift after Washington for years had largely blocked dealings with Venezuela’s government and its oil sector. Separately, the White House said Trump would waive, for

Govt mulls authorising more ministries to issue content takedown orders

New Delhi, Mar 18 (PTI) The government is considering authorising some more ministries, including Defence, External Affairs, and Home Affairs, to issue content takedown orders to social media platforms, sources said on Wednesday. Inter-ministerial discussions are currently underway, government sources said, but they did not provide a timeline for when this may be implemented. At present, the Ministry of Electronics and IT (Meity) is the nodal ministry for takedowns and content blocking orders, and the latest move to expand the ambit of designated ministries would ensure that takedown orders can be issued faster on misleading, illegal content and AI-generated deepfakes.

Israel says it kills Iranian minister, will let military hit any senior official it can find

DUBAI/JERUSALEM/BEIRUT, March 18 (Reuters) – Israel said on Wednesday it had killed Iran’s intelligence minister in the second strike on a top leadership figure in two days, and had authorised the military to ​target any senior Iranian official it can locate. Israel also hit central Beirut, destroying apartment buildings in some of the most intense airstrikes on the Lebanese capital for decades, Israel’s other front in the war ‌it launched with the United States against Iran. A day after killing Iran’s powerful security chief Ali Larijani in the highest-level targeted killing since that of the supreme leader on the war’s

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