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GENEVA, March 17 (Reuters) - A U.N. inquiry has started investigating a fatal strike on a primary school on the first day of U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran, one of its members told reporters on Tuesday. The attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh School consisted of two missile strikes in quick succession that killed 168 children, mostly girls, Iranian officials said in Geneva on Monday.

BEIRUT, March 17 (Reuters) - Five Lebanese soldiers were wounded, two critically, in an Israeli air strike in the city of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese army said on Tuesday, amid escalating hostilities between Israel and Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah. The soldiers, struck while travelling by car and motorcycle, were taken to hospital, it said in a post on X. The strike comes amid intensifying Israeli attacks across Lebanon, which have killed more than 880 people and displaced over a million, according to Lebanese authorities.

JERUSALEM, March 17 (Reuters) - Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday that Iran's security chief Ali Larijani had been killed in an Israeli strike. There was no confirmation from Iran. (Reporting by Mayaan Lubell, Writing by Ahmed Elimam, Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)

March 17 - More than 400 people were killed and 265 injured in an air strike by Pakistan on a drug rehabilitation centre in Kabul, the Afghan Taliban government said on Tuesday, a charge Islamabad denied and said it had targeted a military camp and "terrorist infrastructure". Here is a timeline of the recent clashes between the South Asian neighbours who were close allies years earlier. 2025

March 17 (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei has rejected proposals for reducing tensions or for a ceasefire with the United States that were conveyed to Tehran by two intermediary countries, a senior Iranian official said on Tuesday. Khamenei's stance for revenge against the U.S. and Israel was “very tough and serious” in his first foreign policy session, the official said, without clarifying whether the leader attended the session in person.

ATHENS, March 17 (Reuters) - Greece does not back any separate deals that would allow ships to enterand exitthe Strait of Hormuz but wants a durable solution to safeguard peace in the region, its Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis said on Tuesday. "We do not think that it is optimal to have separate agreements, so that ships enter or leave the Strait of Hormuz," Gerapetritis told reporters alongside his German counterpart Johann Wadephul in Berlin.

BRUSSELS, March 17 (Reuters) - Kaja Kallas, the European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, told Reuters on Tuesday there is no appetite among the bloc's countries to return to business as usual with Russia as energy prices soar in the wake of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Kallas, who serves as the EU's top diplomat, also said that the EU has started taking into account the unpredictability of the United States under President Donald Trump, and pointed towards diplomacy over military means to keep the Strait of Hormuz open.

NEW DELHI, March 17 (Reuters) - India has had no discussions with Iran over the exchange of three vessels, a spokesperson for India's foreign ministry said on Tuesday. Reuters reported on Monday, citing sources, that Iran had asked for the return of three seized tankers in exchange for India asking for India-flagged or India-bound vessels' safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, a key artery for global crude trade. (Reporting by Saurabh Sharma and Nidhi Verma, writing by Hritam Mukherjee)

A building in the northern Israeli city of Nahariyya caught fire on Monday after a rocket attack launched from Lebanon.

If confirmed, death would make Larijani the most senior Iranian figure to be killed since Ali Khamenei on first day of war Middle East crisis – live updates Israel says it has killed the Iranian national security chief, Ali Larijani, in overnight strikes, a claim that if confirmed would make him the most senior Iranian figure to die in the war since the supreme leader Ali Khamenei was killed on its first day. Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz, said a separate strike killed the Basij paramilitary force commander, Gholamreza Soleimani, along with other senior Basij figures. Continue reading...

US-Israel-Iran War Update: Is Ali Larijani Alive or Dead? Death Rumours Surge After Israel Strikes, Iran Yet to Confirm Status  The Sunday Guardian

German Investor Outlook Sinks as Iran War Threatens Recovery  Bloomberg.com

Conservative influencer Carrie Prejean Boller pronounces commander-in-chief’s movement ‘deader than dead’ as split over Iran conflict grows

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Oil prices jump as Iran warns Strait of Hormuz ‘cannot be the same’  KTEN

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