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Economic reports to be overshadowed by escalating Iran war  Financial Times

Great Britain has only two days of gas stored, as Iran war disrupts supplies  The Guardian

UK forces successfully engage drone fired from Iran towards Iraq British forces successfully engaged a one-way drone fired from Iran towards Iraq last night, the UK Ministry of Defence said in an X post on Sunday. "UK forces successfully engaged a one-way attack drone fired from Iran towards Iraq last night. The engagement occurred as RAF Typhoons and F-35 jets continued to conduct defensive sorties across the region," the ministry said. Update on UK operations in the Middle East: 08 March 2026 ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/fVUbMqewCX March 8, 2026

Iran war's targets widen dangerously into civilian infrastructure and Saudi Arabia reports first deaths  PBS

Indian citizen among two killed in Saudi Arabia after residential area hit amid Iran conflict  Telegraph India

Iran's IRGC had earlier said it targeted radar systems in locations including Al-Kharj, home to Prince Sultan base.

US troops reportedly told the war in Iran is intended to bring about biblical end times, Armageddon.

The Iran war has put Asia on the brink of an energy panic  The Economist

The Iran war puts Asia in an energy panic  The Economist

War in the Middle East: Britain’s involvement so far, from sea to sky  The Guardian

Iran war’s targets widen into civilian infrastructure as Bahrain says water plant hit  WTOP

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called on Benny Gantz to change his mind after the key war carbinet member resigned from government over the handling of the war in Gaza.

At least 35 people were killed in Israeli strikes on a camp for displaced people in Rafah, the Gaza health ministry said Sunday. Israel claimed it struck a Hamas compound in the area.

Iran military warns will target region's oil sites if Israel hits energy infrastructure Iran's military warned on Sunday that it would target oil sites in the region if Israel continued to strike energy infrastructure in the Islamic Republic. "The governments of Islamic countries are expected to warn the criminal America and the savage Zionist regime of such cowardly, inhumane actions as soon as possible," Ebrahim Zolfaghari, a spokesman for Iran's central military command, told state TV. "Otherwise, similar measures will be taken in the region, and if you can tolerate oil at more than $200 per barrel, continue this game."

By Orhan Qereman QAMISHLI, Syria March 8 (Reuters) - Kurdish residents of northeast Syria warned Iran's Kurds against aligning with the U.S. to fight the Iranian government, citing their own experience in Syria in recent months as evidence their Iranian counterparts would be "abandoned." Iranian Kurdish militias based in northern Iraq have consulted with the United States in recent days about whether and how to attack security forces in western Iran, as the United States and Israel pound Iran with air strikes, Reuters has reported.

March 8 (Reuters) - The Iranian army said on Sunday that at least 104 people were killed and 32 were wounded in an attack by the U.S. on an Iranian warship off Sri Lanka's coast last week. A U.S. submarine sank the frigate Dena in the Indian Ocean about 19 nautical miles off Sri Lanka's southern port city of Galle on Wednesday, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy. (Reporting by Menna Alaa El-Din and Elwely Elwely; Editing by Alexandra Hudson)

Amb. Mike Waltz: 'Iran has been at war with us' and 'Trump is ending it'  NBC News

Israel launches new wave of strikes across Iran, warns it will target every successor of Khamenei  Fox News

Fed officials are watching Iran war for inflation impact  Yahoo Finance

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