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Police in Nigeria Say Suspected Suicide Bombings Killed at Least 23 People

FILE PHOTO: A police vehicle of Operation Fushin Kada (Anger of Crocodile) is parked on Yakowa Road, as schools across northern Nigeria reopen nearly two months after closing due to security concerns, following the mass abductions of school children, in Kaduna, Nigeria, January 12, 2026. REUTERS/Nuhu Gwamna/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: A police vehicle of Operation Fushin Kada (Anger of Crocodile) is parked on Yakowa Road, as schools across northern Nigeria reopen nearly two months after closing due to security concerns, following the mass abductions of school children, in Kaduna, Nigeria, January 12, 2026. REUTERS/Nuhu Gwamna/File Photo
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Police in Nigeria Say Suspected Suicide Bombings Killed at Least 23 People

FILE PHOTO: A police vehicle of Operation Fushin Kada (Anger of Crocodile) is parked on Yakowa Road, as schools across northern Nigeria reopen nearly two months after closing due to security concerns, following the mass abductions of school children, in Kaduna, Nigeria, January 12, 2026. REUTERS/Nuhu Gwamna/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: A police vehicle of Operation Fushin Kada (Anger of Crocodile) is parked on Yakowa Road, as schools across northern Nigeria reopen nearly two months after closing due to security concerns, following the mass abductions of school children, in Kaduna, Nigeria, January 12, 2026. REUTERS/Nuhu Gwamna/File Photo

At least 23 people were killed and more than 100 injured following suspected suicide bombings Monday night that targeted Maiduguri city in northeastern Nigeria, police said Tuesday, one of the deadliest attacks in the conflict-battered city in recent history.

Residents and emergency services earlier told The Associated Press that three explosions were reported in crowded places in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, including in a major market and at the entrance of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital.

“Regrettably, a total of twenty three (23) persons lost their lives, while one hundred and eight (108) others sustained varying degrees of injuries,” Borno police spokesperson Nahum Kenneth Daso said in a statement that blamed the attacks on suspected suicide bombers.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but the blame quickly fell on the Boko Haram extremist group, which in 2009 launched an insurgency in northeastern Nigeria to enforce their own radical interpretation of Shariah law.

Boko Haram has since become stronger, with thousands of fighters and different factions, including the ISIS West Africa Province, which is backed by the ISIS group. Maiduguri city is at the heart of the deadly violence.

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Poland Will Not Send Its Troops to Iran, PM Tusk Says

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk attends the government meeting at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister in Warsaw, Poland, 13 March 2026. (EPA)
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk attends the government meeting at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister in Warsaw, Poland, 13 March 2026. (EPA)
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Poland Will Not Send Its Troops to Iran, PM Tusk Says

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk attends the government meeting at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister in Warsaw, Poland, 13 March 2026. (EPA)
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk attends the government meeting at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister in Warsaw, Poland, 13 March 2026. (EPA)

Poland ‌will not send troops to Iran as the conflict does not directly affect its security, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday, adding that the United States and other powers understood Warsaw's decision.

US President Donald Trump called on allies over the weekend ‌to help ‌secure the Strait of ‌Hormuz ⁠as Iranian forces continue ⁠attacks on the vital waterway amid the US-Israeli war on Iran, now in its third week.

Poland's government "does not plan any expedition to Iran, and this ⁠does not raise any ‌doubts on ‌the part of our allies," Tusk said ‌before a government meeting.

He said ‌this covered Poland's land, air and naval forces, which are still being built up in the face ‌of the conflict over the border in Ukraine.

Tusk said securing ⁠the ⁠Baltic Sea remained a central element of Poland's strategy.

A number of other US allies, including Germany, Spain and Italy, have said they have no immediate plans to send ships to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has effectively shut with attacks and threats of attacks.

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Oil Tankers ‘Starting to Dribble Through’ Strait of Hormuz, Says White House

Luojiashan tanker sits anchored in Muscat, as Iran vows to close the Strait of Hormuz, amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Muscat, Oman, March 7, 2026. (Reuters)
Luojiashan tanker sits anchored in Muscat, as Iran vows to close the Strait of Hormuz, amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Muscat, Oman, March 7, 2026. (Reuters)
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Oil Tankers ‘Starting to Dribble Through’ Strait of Hormuz, Says White House

Luojiashan tanker sits anchored in Muscat, as Iran vows to close the Strait of Hormuz, amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Muscat, Oman, March 7, 2026. (Reuters)
Luojiashan tanker sits anchored in Muscat, as Iran vows to close the Strait of Hormuz, amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Muscat, Oman, March 7, 2026. (Reuters)

Oil tankers are crossing the Strait of Hormuz and Iran's actions to choke traffic through the shipping route have not hurt the US economy, White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett told CNBC on Tuesday, reiterating the Trump administration's position that the war should be over in weeks, not months.

"Already you're seeing tankers are starting to dribble through the straits, and I think ‌it's a ‌sign of how little Iran has ‌left," ⁠he said.

"We're very ⁠optimistic that this is going to be over in the short run, and then there will be price repercussions when it is over for a few weeks, as the ships make it to the refineries."

Hassett said there ⁠is concern that Asia may not ‌be exporting as much ‌refined oil to the US to handle a decrease in ‌supply from the Middle East.

"We're seeing ‌some signs that they might be pulling that back to make sure that they have enough energy for themselves. And we've got a plan for that," ‌he said.

Trump on Monday postponed his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping ⁠to focus ⁠on the war in Iran.

Hassett said the US action in Iran is in China's interest.

"This is one case where the objectives of both countries are aligned, that we want, you know, a stable world oil market," he said. "When this war is over, which will be sometime soon, I'm sure they'll get together and have a lot to talk about, and hopefully when the Chinese will express some gratitude."

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Albania Designates Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as ‘Terrorist’

Iranians attend the funeral of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) commanders, army commanders and others killed in the early days of the United States and Israeli strikes on Iran, at Enghelab Square in Tehran on March 11, 2026. (AFP)
Iranians attend the funeral of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) commanders, army commanders and others killed in the early days of the United States and Israeli strikes on Iran, at Enghelab Square in Tehran on March 11, 2026. (AFP)
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Albania Designates Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as ‘Terrorist’

Iranians attend the funeral of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) commanders, army commanders and others killed in the early days of the United States and Israeli strikes on Iran, at Enghelab Square in Tehran on March 11, 2026. (AFP)
Iranians attend the funeral of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) commanders, army commanders and others killed in the early days of the United States and Israeli strikes on Iran, at Enghelab Square in Tehran on March 11, 2026. (AFP)

Albania on Tuesday designated Iran's Revolutionary Guards a "terrorist organization" and Iran as a state "supporting terrorism" as the Middle East war raged on.

The Balkan nation's ruling Socialist party used its parliamentary majority to adopt a resolution to designate the ideological arm of the Iranian military despite an opposition boycott.

"The Albanian parliament declares the Islamic Republic of Iran a state that supports terrorism and a state that uses terrorist means in the pursuit of its foreign policy objectives," the resolution said.

The document also condemned cyberattacks believed to be carried out by Iran-linked hackers against its institutions, including an incident earlier this month targeting its parliamentary IT system.

A cyberattack in 2022 triggered Tirana to sever diplomatic ties with Iran.

Albania has for years hosted several thousand members of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK), an exiled Iranian opposition group considered as "terrorist" by Tehran.

The United States has already designated the Guards as a "terrorist organization".

The European Union followed in January after the deadly crackdown carried out by the authorities against Iranian protesters.