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  • An Iranian Kurdish Peshmerga member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) inspects damage sustained at the Azadi Camp of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) following an Iranian cross-border attack in the town of Koye (Koysinjaq), in the east of Erbil district in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq on March 3, 2026. The United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran on February 28, with the killing of Iran's supreme leader and the Islamic republic retaliated with barrages of missiles at Gulf states and Israel. The Kurdistan region hosts US-led coalition troops, and its capital Erbil is home to a major US consulate complex. (Photo by Safin HAMID / AFP via Getty Images)
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  • Balendra Shah, popularly known as Balen, waits to cast his vote as the prime ministerial candidate of the Rastriya Swatantra Party during Nepal's early election in Kathmandu, Nepal, on March 5, 2026.
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    Nepal’s early vote count puts ex-rapper’s party ahead
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  • Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai will not appeal outcome in landmark security case
  • In torpedoing an enemy warship, the US Navy just did something it hasn’t done in eight decades
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  • Exclusive: Iranian bombers were ‘two minutes’ from striking US air base before Qatari planes shot them down
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  • Cuban coast guard ships docked at the port of Havana on February 25, 2026. Cuba's coast guard said on February 25, 2026, it shot dead four people and wounded six others traveling in a US-registered speedboat during an exchange of fire near Cuba's shores that came amid heightened tensions with Washington.
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    Cuba charges six exiles with terrorism over Florida-registered speedboat attack
  • A plume of smoke rises after a strike on the Iranian capital Tehran, on March 3, 2026.
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    Russia is aiding Iran’s war effort by providing intel on US military targets, sources say 4:39
  • <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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  • KYIV, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 16: Andrii Sybiha, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister, speaks at a joint press conference with Alain Berset, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe (not pictured) on February 16, 2026 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Alain Berset, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, has arrived in Ukraine and met with Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha. They also paid tribute to fallen Ukrainian defenders at an improvised memorial in Kyiv’s Independence Square. (Photo by Viktor Kovalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
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    Hungary’s $82 million bank transit swoop deepens spat with Ukraine
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  • People inspect the damage at a destroyed apartment building a day after it was struck by an Iranian missile in Tel Aviv, Israel, on March 1, 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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  • The hearse of drug trafficker Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera leaves la Paz funeral home in Guadalajara, Jalisco state, Mexico, on March 2, 2026.
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    Slain cartel leader ‘El Mencho’ buried in a golden casket
  • US citizen was among those killed in Cuba speedboat shootout. Here’s what we know
  • Cuba says its forces kill four in gunfight after Florida speedboat tries to ‘infiltrate’ island
  • With World Cup looming, can Mexico contain the chaos unleashed by the killing of drug lord ‘El Mencho’?

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  • An Afghan woman walks out of a cell inside the women's section of the Pul-e-Charkhi prison in Kabul, Afghanistan, on September 23, 2021.
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    Taliban allows men to beat their wives as long as they don’t break bones or leave open wounds
  • With sniper rifle photos, Kim Jong Un intensifies spotlight on his daughter, a potential successor
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  • Tornado damages, rips portions of a Menard’s roof off in Three Rivers, MI Cleared for all CNN platforms and its affiliates From CNN’s Nic F. Anderson Two people get caught in the middle of a tornado in Three Rivers, Michigan, and capture portions of a Menard's roof being ripped off and damaged. Lindsey Whitaker told CNN she was driving heading home when she took the footage. “We are fine,” Whitaker wrote in the caption of her video. “We quickly got out of there.”
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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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    Trump says ‘whole educational system’ could go out of business without fixes to college sports
  • Fired Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore reaches plea deal to resolve home invasion case
  • Iranian women’s soccer team forced to sing national anthem ahead of Asian Cup match, sources tell CNN
  • Lou Holtz, college football staple who coached Notre Dame to 1988 national title, dies at 89
  • What went wrong in the women’s competition at the chaotic USATF half marathon championship?

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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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