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Nearly 700,000 displaced in Lebanon, Unicef says Nearly 700,000 people, including around 200,000 children, have been forced from their homes across Lebanon over the past week alone as a result of Israeli bombardment and expulsion orders, Unicef, the UN children’s agency, said. Unicef said the number is in addition to the tens of thousands of people "already uprooted from previous escalations". At least 83 children have been killed and 254 wounded across Lebanon since 2 March, an average of more than 10 children killed each day, with roughly 36 wounded daily, it said.

The Price Mojtaba Khamenei Paid As He Takes Over As Iran's Supreme Leader  NDTV

Iran Guards say 'ready for complete obedience' to Mojtaba Khamenei Iran's Revolutionary Guards pledged allegiance on Sunday to the country's new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, after he was appointed his father's successor by the Assembly of Experts. "The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...is ready for complete obedience and self-sacrifice in carrying out the divine commands of the Guardian Jurist of the time, His Eminence Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei", the Guards said in a statement.

Lebanon registers more than half a million displaced by Israeli attacks Lebanon's social affairs minister said on Sunday that more than half a million people had been registered as displaced since the outbreak of the new war between Israel and Hezbollah. In a press briefing, Haneen Sayed said that the total number of people who registered their names on a website affiliated with the ministry reached 517,000, including 117,228 people in government shelters. A displaced person sits outside a car loaded with belongings, following an escalation between Hezbollah and Israel amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Beirut, Lebanon, 8 March, 2026. (Reuters)

TEHRAN, Mar. 08 (MNA) – Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has visited several hospitals and specialized treatment centers to inspect those who have been injured during the US-Israeli aggression.

TEHRAN, Mar. 08 (MNA) – Iranian Red Crescent Society has formally requested the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to launch an investigation into violations of international humanitarian law in recent attacks targeting civilian sites.

Iran cleric says leadership choice nearing announcement Member of Iran’s Assembly of Experts, Ayatollah Mohammad-Mahdi Mirbagheri, on Sunday said “great efforts to determine the leadership” have been made and that “a decisive and unanimous opinion” has been reached. In a video posted by the Fars news agency on Telegram, another member of the body, Hojjatoleslam Jafari, said that he hopes “all Iranian people will be satisfied as soon as possible”. “The delay in electing the third leader is bitter and unwanted for everyone, and there is no alternative, so we should not have bad thoughts about our representatives at this difficult time,” he said.

TEHRAN, Mar. 08 (MNA) – A senior Russian official has said that the Islamic Republic of Iran is giving a powerful, effective and proportionate response to the US-Israeli aggression.