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  • Smoke and fire rise from the site of airstrikes at Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran on March 7, 2026. Israel said on March 7 it had launched "broad-scale" strikes on targets in Tehran, as the Iranian state broadcaster reported an explosion in the western part of the city.
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    Live Updates Trump signals he will escalate war with Iran as Tehran mulls new US targets
  • Everything we know on the eighth day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
  • One of UK’s most notorious child killers dies days after being attacked in prison
  • Iran sends first significant message of de-escalation, but with a major caveat
  • Dozens killed, authorities say, as Israeli commandos raid Lebanon in hunt for missing airman
  • Ukraine’s counter-drone expertise has been hard won. War in the Middle East may reveal its silver lining
  • TOPSHOT - Smoke rises from Israeli bombardment on the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on March 4, 2026. Israel's military said on March 4 it had begun striking southern Lebanon after issuing a call to evacuate all areas south of the country's Litani river. Lebanon was dragged into the regional war on March 2 when the pro-Iran Hezbollah group launched an attack on Israel, saying it wanted to "avenge" the killing of Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei during US-Israeli strikes, sparking Israeli retaliation. (Photo by Rabih DAHER / AFP via Getty Images)
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    As Iran war rages, Israel seizes chance to finish the job against Hezbollah
  • Visualizing the US-Israeli war with Iran and retaliation in maps and charts
  • Hungary’s $82 million bank transit swoop deepens spat with Ukraine
  • Between bombs and blackouts, Iranians are trapped in a deepening crisis
  • Home-building robots could help fix the housing crisis
  • Nepal’s early vote count puts ex-rapper’s party ahead
  • Iran war may help Netanyahu at home but hurt Israel abroad
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  • US President Donald Trump met with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Tuesday.
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    ‘No Winston Churchill’: Trump opens new rift with Europe as leaders try to avoid being sucked into Iran war
  • Britain's police officers patrol in front of Scotland Yard, central London, on February 14, 2022. (Photo by Tolga Akmen / AFP) (Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)
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  • <p>Residents in the Saudi capital, Riyadh have told CNN they don’t want to be dragged into the ongoing war between the US, Israel and Iran. CNN’s International Diplomatic Editor Nic Robertson spoke to people along one of the city’s busiest cafe boulevards who told him they fear their security would be endangered by any Saudi intervention. </p>
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  • <p>CNN's Paula Hancocks interviews a Dubai resident over the phone who witnessed a drone strike 'within the perimiter' of Dubai airport, which reportedly 'shook' the terminal building.</p>
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    First live report from a US network out of Tehran since war began 4:21
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  • Iranian flags hang from a building in Shahid Borujerdi residential complex in south east Tehran which was heavily struck and destroyed by Israel and U.S. during Operation Epic Fury in Tehran, Iran, on March 5, 2026.
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  • A woman in Tehran walks past the wreckage of a police station destroyed by U.S.-Israeli airstrikes, photographed during a government-led media tour on Tuesday, March 3, 2026. The Israeli military said it had seized areas of southern Lebanon on Tuesday in its escalating conflict with the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia, as the State Department closed its embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait after drone attacks and urged Americans to depart immediately from 14 Middle East countries. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times)
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  • Nigerian musician Tiwa Savage annouces partnership with Berklee College of Music to train 100 emerging music creators.
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  • Cubans transit on a street in Havana on January 7, 2026. Cubans weary from years of economic crisis, shortages of basic supplies and regular power blackouts, fear the US attack on Venezuela, a leftist ideological ally and its main oil supplier, will see life get even tougher. (Photo by Yamil LAGE / AFP via Getty Images)
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    ‘We can’t take it anymore’: How Trump is pushing Cuba to the brink
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  • Media tycoon Jimmy Lai, founder of Apple Daily, looks on as he leaves the Court of Final Appeal by prison van, in Hong Kong, on February 1, 2021.
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    Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai will not appeal outcome in landmark security case
  • Taliban allows men to beat their wives as long as they don’t break bones or leave open wounds
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  • A tornado rips off part of the roof of a Menard’s store in Three Rivers, Michigan, on Friday.
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  • Children sit on a sidewalk as displaced families fleeing Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon arrive in the southern port city of Sidon, on Monday, March 2.
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  • <p>A CNN team on the Israel-Lebanon border witnessed two projectiles from Lebanon striking northern Israel, as the crossfire between Israel and Hezbollah intensifies. Israel has carried out a wave of strikes in Beirut and in southern Lebanon. Meanwhile, Israel says five Israeli soldiers were seriously wounded by Hezbollah fire on Friday. CNN’s Jeremy Diamond reports from the Israel-Lebanon border.</p>
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  • <p>CNN’s Fred Pleitgen and Claudia Otto report from Tehran as thousands of Iranian hardliners gather to mourn the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and denounce the US and Israel. They also visit a hospital damaged in an airstrike. CNN operates in Iran only with government permission.</p>
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  • <p>CNN’s Fred Pleitgen and photojournalist Claudia Otto join demonstrators as the government attempts to put on a defiant face. CNN operates in Iran only with government permission.</p>
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  • U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to host a round table on collegiate sports in the White House in Washington, D.C., March 6, 2026. REUTERS/Nathan Howard
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  • The Anthropic logo displayed on the stage during the company's Builder Summit in Bengaluru, India, on February 16, 2026.
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