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US-Israel-Iran War News Live Updates: Iran announces Mojtaba Khamenei as new Supreme Leader  The Times of India

New front in Lebanon as Iran war reshapes Middle East  NPR

Oil prices surge 20% as expanding US-Israeli war with Iran cuts supplies from Mideast  Reuters

Qatar PM urges de‑escalation amid Iran war Qatari prime minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani in a Sky News interview aired on Sunday urged all sides involved in the Iran war to de-escalate. "We will continue talking to the Iranians, we will continue trying to seek de-escalation," the prime minister said in the interview. He said that the latest events had delivered “a huge shake‑up” to the trust underpinning their relationship with Iran. "For the US, we would like to see a de-escalation, we would like to see ... a diplomatic solution that addresses our concerns as well as their concerns," he added. "We need to ensure, first, that Iran should stop all attacks against Gulf countries and other countries that they are attacking and are not party of this war," he said.

Video: Pentagon Announces Death of Seventh U.S. Service Member in War With Iran  The New York Times

Week 2 of Iran: Military momentum meets economic and political reality  CNN

Seventh U.S. service member killed in Iran war after sustaining injuries in Saudi Arabia attack  The Independent

Oil prices soar past $100 a barrel as war escalates in Iran  CNN

Escalating military aggression in Middle East continues to wipe 20m barrels from market each day Global oil prices have breached the $100 (£74) a barrel mark for the first time since 2022 as escalating military aggression in the Middle East continues to wipe 20m barrels of oil from the market each day. Brent crude, the international benchmark, climbed 12.2% to $104.05 a barrel as the new week’s trading began in the Asia Pacific markets, the first time that market prices have soared above this key psychological threshold since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Continue reading...

Seventh American service member dies in Iran war, CENTCOM confirms  The Detroit News

Oil tops $100 a barrel as Iran war escalates  Axios

An apology comes from Iran's president, yet missiles are still hitting neighbours.

Soldier becomes seventh US service member killed during Operation Epic Fury  BorderReport

Dozens of people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a United Nations-run school in central Gaza, authorities said, in an attack that CNN analysis found was conducted with a US-made weapon.

Spain, Norway and Ireland announced plans to formally recognize a Palestinian state, in a move that is likely to bolster the global Palestinian cause but strain relations with Israel.

Who is Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s new supreme leader amid war?  Al Jazeera

Oil prices top $100 per barrel as big Middle East producers cut output amid Iran war  CNBC

Iran's ruling clerics on Sunday appointed the slain leader's son, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, as the country's new supreme leader, defying threats from the United States and Israel to oppose him. Nine days after US-Israeli strikes killed the elder Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and plunged the Middle East into war, the clerical government's Assembly of Experts convened to choose their next leader.

President Emmanuel Macron will visit Cyprus on Monday, his office said, as France deploys warships to the Mediterranean following a drone attack on the island EU member days ago. Macron will meet his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Paphos to show "solidarity" and detail moves to "strengthen security around Cyprus and in the eastern Mediterranean", the Elysee said on Sunday. The visit will take place as the war pitting the US and Israel against Iran is in its second week, affecting much of the Middle East.