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    U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the signing ceremony for an executive order on mail ballots, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., March 31, 2026. REUTERS/Evan Vucci
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    Live Updatesa min ago Trump says Iran war is ‘nearing completion’ in address to the nation
  • Residents remove a torched tractor that, according to the Palestine Red Crescent, was torched by Israeli settlers, alongside tents and cars in the West Bank village of Tayasir, near Tubas, Tuesday, March 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
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  • US President Donald Trump, pictured Tuesday, has stepped up his criticism of NATO since the US-Israeli war with Iran.
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    Trump suggests in new interviews he is ‘absolutely’ considering withdrawing US from ‘paper tiger’ NATO
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    Live Updatesa min ago Day 32 of Middle East conflict — Iran threatens US tech companies, Kuwaiti oil tanker attacked
  • A man walks among the ruins of a commercial-office building affected during military operations in a residential area of Tehran, Iran, on March 29, 2026. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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  • Christian worshippers mark Palm Sunday, following the cancellation of the traditional Palm Sunday procession at the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem in Jerusalem's Old City.
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  • An Iranian woman walks past a view of Tehran's research reactor in Tehran, Iran, on February 26, 2026, the final day of Iran-U.S. talks that are currently held in the city of Geneva.
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  • A man stands next to a building destroyed by an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon on Saturday.
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  • FILE PHOTO: An aerial view of the island of Qeshm, separated from the Iranian mainland by the Clarence Strait, on December 10, 2023.
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    Mines, missiles and miles of coastline: Why Iran has the upper hand in the Strait of Hormuz
  • Funeral of two paramedics killed in an Israeli strike on Tuesday (March 24) according to Lebanese ministry of health.
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  • Emergency personnel respond at a site following Iranian missile barrages in central Israel, amid the US-Israel conflict with Iran, in Tel Aviv, Israel, March 24, 2026.
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    What to know on Day 26 of the Iran war: Tehran taunts Trump, US troop deployment
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  • Civil defense and search and rescue teams continue operations in the area after U.S. and Israeli strikes targeted the Enderzgu district of the Iranian capital Tehran at dawn, causing severe damage as half of an eight-story building collapsed and the remaining part became unusable, while nearby structures were heavily damaged and many vehicles were rendered inoperable, on March 23, 2026.
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    What we know on Day 25 of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
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    Video Iranian diaspora in London hoping for end of regime but face attacks 4:23
  • An Israeli soldier uses a torch to inspect the damage after Iranian missile barrages struck Dimona, amid the US-Israel conflict with Iran, in southern Israel March 21, 2026.
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    What we know on day 23 of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
  • The Singapore flagged 85-thousand ton Norman Atlantic stands ablaze 06 December 1987 after she was attacked by an Iranian warship in Omani territorial waters as it approached the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranians attacked 2 tankers in the region killing one aboard the Danish tanker Estelle Maersk and setting the Singapore tanker Norman Atlantic ablaze. The Tanker War started properly in 1984 when Iraq attacked Iranian tankers and the vital oil terminal at Kharg island. Iran struck back by attacking tankers carrying Iraqi oil from Kuwait and then any tanker of the Gulf states supporting Iraq. The air and small boat attacks did very little to damage the economies of either country and the price of oil was never seriously affected as Iran just moved it's shipping port to Larak Island in the straights of Hormuz.
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    The Tanker War: How history is repeating itself on the Strait of Hormuz
  • US President Donald Trump during the Commander in Chief Trophy Presentation to the 2024 Navy Midshipmen football team at the White House in Washington on March 20, 2026.
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