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Kapikoy Border crossing into Turkey has become one of the few ways out of Iran during the war  PBS

Israeli military confirms first fatalities in Lebanon a week after fighting resumes with Hezbollah.

Iran's foreign minister said Sunday that the Iranian people, not Donald Trump, will elect their new leader and demanded that the US president apologize for starting the war with Iran. "We allow nobody to interfere in our domestic affairs. This is up to the Iranian people to elect their new leader," Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told NBC's "Meet the Press." Trump on Sunday reiterated his demand to have a say in picking Iran's next supreme leader after Ali Khamenei died in the opening salvos of the US-Israeli attack that began nine days ago.

US energy chief says spike in gas prices will fall ‘before too long’ amid Iran war  The Guardian

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Efforts to repatriate thousands of Israelis stranded in the UAE to resume as more than 15,000 return to country on 90 flights since the partial reopening of the airspace The post Israeli airlines launch first outbound flights from Ben Gurion during Iran war appeared first on The Times of Israel.

HORMUZ TRACKER: Iran-Linked Ships Are the Only Ones to Transit  Yahoo Finance

HORMUZ TRACKER: Iran-Linked Ships Are the Only Ones to Transit  Bloomberg

Two killed in strike on residential building in Saudi Arabia An strike on a residential building in the central al-Kharj governate in Saudi Arabia has killed at least two people and wounded a dozen others, according to the civil defence agency.

A retired Lebanese security officer has gone missing, and his family says Israeli operatives kidnapped him to get information about a long-missing Israeli airman

Sen. John Kennedy: Iran had taken ‘baby steps’ to restart nuclear program  Politico

Petition urging Australia to protect women athletes from persecution by Islamic Republic gets over 50,000 signatures; team arrived for the games before US and Israel attacked Iran The post Iranian soccer team exits Women’s Asian Cup and faces the prospect of a return home appeared first on The Times of Israel.

Three Palestinians have died in a clash with Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, as violence has spiked during new war in the Middle East

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Trump's energy chief blames oil price spike on market fear  Axios

Oil prices have soared in the week since the U.S. and Israel went to war with Iran

CAIRO, March 8 (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike killed at least two Palestinians in Gaza City on Sunday, local health officials said, the deadliest incident in Gaza since Israel and the United States launched their war against Iran a week ago. Medics said the two people were travelling in a car near Al-Azhar University in western Gaza City. Their identities were not immediately clear. Several other people in the area were wounded in the strike, the health officials added.

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Ukrainian ex-defence minister says conflict provides simultaneous ‘risks and opportunities’ Middle East crisis – live updates At the Iranian embassy in Kyiv, a salmon-pink mansion on a street close to the presidential administration, there were several open days last week for anyone who wished to come and sign a book of condolences in memory of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, killed in the US-Israeli air strikes on Tehran. Inside, candles lined the floor and mournful music played, as diplomats ushered the way to a room with a portrait of Khamenei and the book to sign. There was, however, no queue of well-wishers. Continue reading...