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By Reuters Published on: March 21, 2026 09:28 (EAT)

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Chuck Norris starred in “Walker, Texas Ranger” from 1993 to 2001. Courtesy CBS

Chuck Norris, the former martial arts champion and 1980s action-film hero who fought the bad guys in “Code of Silence,” “Missing in Action” and “The Delta Force” and upheld the law in the TV series “Walker, Texas Ranger,” died on Thursday, his family said in a statement on his Instagram account on Friday.

“While we would like to ​keep the circumstances private, please know that he was surrounded by his family and was at peace,” the statement read.

The six-time undefeated World Professional Middleweight ‌Karate Champion, whose tough-guy image inspired satirical “facts” that made him an Internet phenomenon, had been hospitalized in Hawaii on Thursday, Variety reported.

Norris starred in more than two dozen films portraying silent loners, soldiers, lawmen, veterans and All-American heroes who captured criminals, released prisoners of war, rescued hostages and battled terrorists.

With his roundhouse kicks he fought martial arts icon Bruce Lee in Rome’s Colosseum in his 1973 film debut “The Way of ​the Dragon.” Along with actor Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis he helped defeat villain Jean-Claude Van Damme in the 2012 blockbuster “The Expendables 2.”

Time magazine described ​him as “the ultimate tough guy.”

“In his strictly wham-bam B-movie genre, Norris, a former karate champion, has become the undisputed superstar,” it said in ⁠1985.

Norris dodged bullets, landed kicks squarely on an opponent’s jaw and dismissed multiple villains at a time in his action-packed films.

His macho image made him a hit at the ​box office and on the small screen. From 1993 to 2001, he played Sergeant Cordell Walker, an upstanding lawman, former Marine and martial arts expert in “Walker, Texas Ranger.”

The bearded actor, writer ​and producer became an online cult hero in 2005 when an American student created what became Chuck Norris Facts, online jokes about the actor’s physical prowess and masculinity that became a viral sensation and inspired several books.

Among the most popular were “Chuck Norris has a mug of nails instead of coffee in the morning” and “Chuck Norris doesn’t do push-ups; he pushes the Earth down.”

AN UNLIKELY TOUGH GUY

Carlos Ray Norris was born ​on March 10, 1940 in Ryan, Oklahoma, the oldest of three brothers. The family moved to California after his parents divorced.

He was extremely quiet and introverted, which he attributed ​to his father’s alcoholism and the family’s poverty.

“In school I was shy and inhibited,” Norris wrote in his 2004 memoir “Against All Odds: My Story.” “If the teacher asked me to recite something aloud in front ‌of the ⁠class, I would just shake my head no.”

Norris was also not a natural athlete. He had to train remarkably hard to become a martial arts champion, he said. After graduating from school, he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1958. While stationed in South Korea, he learned Tang Soo Do, a form of karate, and other martial arts.

The future film star started teaching martial arts in California after his discharge. He also won major competitions. Actor Steve McQueen, who was one of Norris’ students, encouraged him to try acting.

“He told me ​that I should think about projecting a presence, ​and never do a part that ⁠had a lot of dialogue,” Norris told the New York Times in a 1985 interview.

“He told me, ‘Movies are visual, and when you try to verbalize something, you’re going to lose the audience.'”

Norris’ films grossed millions and made him a popular figure among the U.S. military. He ​visited Iraq in 2006 and 2007 to show his support for American troops.

In 1990, he founded his own martial arts discipline, Chun ​Kuk Do, and established ⁠the nonprofit organization, Kickstart Kids, to teach children martial arts and self-esteem.

A patriot, Conservative and devout Christian, he worked with the National Rifle Association (NRA) and was a contributor to WorldNetDaily, a far-right news and aggregator website.

In addition to his best-selling memoir, Norris published “The Secret of Inner Strength – My Story,” his guide to self-improvement, as well as several books on fitness and martial arts and ⁠two novels – 2006’s “The ​Justice Riders” and its sequel, “A Threat to Justice.”

He was married twice and had five children.

Norris defended his films ​to critics who claimed they promoted violence. If they are well written, he said, action films can tell a story as effectively as any drama or romance.

“It’s how it’s done. I don’t advocate violence for violence’s sake,” ​he told the Los Angeles Times in 1994. “What people hang on to is that the good guy wins in the end.”

Trump administration sues Harvard over anti-Israel protests

By AFP Published on: March 21, 2026 08:47 (EAT)

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump looks on as he signs executive orders and proclamations in the Oval Office at the White House, in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 5, 2025. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo

The Trump administration filed a lawsuit Friday against Harvard University, accusing the institution of allowing a “hostile environment” toward Jewish and Israeli students during pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus from 2023 to 2025.

President Donald Trump has launched an offensive against major American universities, accusing them of giving free rein on their campuses to pro-Palestinian movements in the face of the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, action which he equates with antisemitism.

In February, the Department of Justice filed a similar lawsuit against the University of California, Los Angeles.

In its new complaint, the DOJ said Harvard “faculty and leadership turned a blind eye to antisemitism and discrimination against Jews and Israelis,” accusing the university of failing to enforce its own rules against pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli protesters.

“Harvard let anti-Israeli demonstrators occupy its libraries. Harvard allowed an anti-Israeli encampment to persist for twenty days in violation of university policy,” said the lawsuit, filed in a Massachusetts court.

“Harvard fostered and continues to foster a campus climate where hostile antisemitism and anti-Israeli conduct thrives,” it said.

In a statement responding to the lawsuit, Harvard said it “cares deeply about members of our Jewish and Israeli community and remains committed to ensuring they are embraced, respected, and can thrive on our campus.”

The university said it had taken “substantive, proactive” steps to address the root causes of antisemitism and had “enhanced training and education on antisemitism for students, faculty, and staff.”

It also has launched programs to “promote civil dialogue and respectful disagreement inside and outside the classroom,” the university said. “Harvard’s efforts demonstrate the very opposite of deliberate indifference.”

In its lawsuit, the Trump administration asked the court to declare Harvard in violation of its contract with the federal government and, consequently, to release it from its obligation to pay millions of dollars in federal funds to the university and to demand the return of money already given.

The move is the latest salvo in the Trump administration’s offensive against the prestigious and oldest US university.

In September a federal judge, acting on a complaint filed by Harvard, ordered the government to rescind its freeze on $2.6 billion in funding to the university.

At the time, Trump indicated he was close to reaching an agreement under which Harvard would pay approximately $500 million, earmarked primarily for professional training.

However, in February the president said on his Truth Social network that he was now seeking $1 billion in damages from Harvard.

This announcement, which was not immediately followed by action, came after a New York Times article stating that Trump had abandoned his initial request for $200 million from Harvard in the face of university resistance.

Iran military warns UAE over attacks on disputed Gulf islands

By AFP Published on: March 21, 2026 11:48 (EAT)

Iran’s military warned the United Arab Emirates on Saturday against allowing attacks from its territory on two disputed islands in the Gulf, near the strategic Strait of Hormuz.

“We warn the United Arab Emirates if any further aggression originates from its territory against the Iranian islands of Abu Musa and Greater Tunb in the Persian Gulf, Iran’s powerful armed forces will subject Ras Al Khaimah in the UAE to heavy strikes,” the military’s operational command Khatam Al-Anbiya said in a statement carried by Tasnim news agency.

Abu Musa and the Greater Tunb islands, which are controlled by Iran but claimed by the UAE, have long been a source of dispute between the two countries.

The islands are located in the Gulf near the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz, through which normally about a fifth of the world’s oil passes.

But marine traffic has been disrupted by the regional war, which began with US-Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28 and has since spread across the Middle East.

Iran accuses Gulf states of allowing US forces to carry out attacks from their territory, and has launched missile and drone strikes against what it calls US interests in those countries throughout the war.

Gulf states have repeatedly denied those accusations, saying even before the war that they would not allow their territory or airspace to be used to attack Iran.

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