Israel-Iran battle LIVE: Iran fires first missiles at Israel after picking Mojtaba Khamenei as next supreme leader

Bahrain’s interior ministry mentioned early Tuesday (March 10, 2026) an Iranian attack on a residential situation within the capital Manama killed one particular person and injured others.

“Initial experiences cloak one particular person died and others were injured in a blatant Iranian attack concentrated on a residential constructing within the capital,” the ministry mentioned.

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U.S. President Donald ⁠Trump ‌additionally ‌educated ⁠reporters ⁠the United States ‌is “very phenomenal on high” ‌of tracking whether or not ⁠Iran ‌has activated “sleeper cells” ‌within the country. 

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President ‌Donald Trump mentioned 100 ‌million barrels ‌of ‌oil ⁠from ⁠Venezuela used to be brought ‌to the refineries in Houston ‌and that an ⁠additional 100 ‌million barrels of oil from ‌there used to be additionally ⁠coming.

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Australia will deploy a defense force surveillance airplane to West Asia and send missiles to the United Arab Emirates however will not put troops ‌on the bottom in Iran, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese mentioned on Tuesday (March 10, 2026)

Australia’s ‌defense force increase would abet the ‌Gulf ⁠countries defend themselves in opposition to unprovoked attacks ⁠from Iran, PM Albanese mentioned, stressing Australia used to be “not a protagonist”.

“Our involvement is purely defensive,” PM Albanese educated reporters. “And it’s in defence ‌of Australians who are within the mutter as neatly as in defence of our guests within the United Arab Emirates.”

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In a press conference, U.S. President Donald Trump ⁠mentioned ‌as soon as the ‌United ‌States ⁠is ⁠accomplished with the defense force operation ‌in opposition to Iran, Tehran will no ‌longer have any skill ⁠of weaponry in opposition to ‌the United States, Israel ‌and any U.S. allies for a ⁠long time.

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UAE’s international ministry ‌condemned a drone attack on ⁠its consulate in Iraqi ‌Kurdistan’s Erbil, it mentioned ‌in ‌a ⁠observation ⁠early on Tuesday (March 10, 2026).

Iraqi Kurdistan’s counter-terrorism service ‌mentioned that it ‌had downed three drones in ⁠Erbil, with debris from one ‌of the drones falling shut to the UAE ‌consulate. It mentioned no casualties were ⁠reported.

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The US struck higher than 5,000 targets throughout the first 10 days of the Iran battle, the U.S. defense force mentioned.

Amongst the targets were higher than 50 Iranian vessels, U.S. Central Whisper — which is to blame for American forces within the mutter — mentioned in a truth sheet.

Utterly different targets embrace air defence programs, ballistic missile websites, missile and drone manufacturing, and military communications, the defense force recount mentioned.

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The U.S. stock market careened via a manic Monday (March 9, 2026), going from a steep early loss to a acquire scheme as worries grow to be hope that the battle with Iran might not closing that long. Oil prices whipped from in terms of $120 per barrel, their absolute best since 2022, aid toward $90.

The Israeli defense force mentioned it had launched a wave of “huge strikes” on Tehran, the second of the day. “For the second time this day: the IDF (Israeli defense force) has begun a huge wave of strikes in Tehran… in opposition to terror targets,” the defense force mentioned in a press free up.

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U.S. President Trump is space to present a press conference quickly at round 3 a.m. (2130 GMT) within the ballroom of his Doral golf club shut to Miami.

He has indicated for the first time that U.S. defense force operations in Iran can be coming to an quit, saying the battle used to be “very total” and progressing forward of schedule.

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Iran Deputy ‌International Minister Kazem Gharibabadi ⁠mentioned that some ‌countries, ‌together with ⁠China, Russia ⁠and France, have contacted Tehran ‌concerning a ceasefire, Iranian mutter ‌TV reported.

Mr. Gharibabadi mentioned Iran’s first ⁠situation for ‌a possible ceasefire can be the ‌quit of additional aggression in opposition to ⁠the country.

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The Israeli defense force mentioned it had finished a “wave of strikes in opposition to six defense force airfields” in Iran as fraction of efforts to solidify its air superiority over the Islamic republic.

“Fairly about a airplane were dismantled, together with Quds Power airplane belonging to the Islamic Innovative Guard Corps and Iranian fight helicopters,” the defense force mentioned.

“In addition, runways and defence and detection programs intended to feature in opposition to (Israeli air force) airplane working in Iranian airspace were struck.”

The strikes appeared to embrace attacks launched on Saturday (March 7, 2026) on Tehran’s Mehrabad International Airport, that the Israeli defense force mentioned destroyed 16 airplane archaic by the Innovative Guards.

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Australia on Tuesday (March 10, 2026) agreed to present ‌visas to 5 Iranian girls folk’s soccer ⁠avid gamers to close within the country, after ‌U.S. President Donald Trump urged ‌Canberra not ‌to ⁠send them aid ⁠to Tehran attributable to concerns over their security.

A Kentucky man who joined the Navy straight out of excessive college is the seventh U.S. service member to die in fight throughout the Iran battle, the Pentagon launched Monday (March 9, 2026).

Navy Sgt. Benjamin N. Pennington, 26, of Glendale, Kentucky, died Sunday after being wounded throughout a March 1 attack on the Prince Sultan Air Unpleasant, Saudi Arabia, a Pentagon observation mentioned.

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Russian President ‌Vladimir Putin held a phone ⁠name with U.S. President ‌Donald Trump on ‌Monday (March 9, 2026) and ‌shared ⁠his ⁠proposals, geared toward a short settlement ‌to the Iran battle, Kremlin international ‌policy aide Yuri Ushakov educated reporters. 

The ⁠leaders additionally discussed the ‌Ukrainian war and the worry in Venezuela in ‌the context of the global ⁠oil market worry, Mr. Ushakov ⁠mentioned.

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U.S. ‌President Donald Trump educated in an ‌interview he ‌thinks ‌the ⁠battle ⁠in opposition to Iran “is terribly total” and ‌that Washington used to be “very some distance ‌forward” of his initial four ⁠to 5 week ‌estimated time frame, according ‌to a CBS reporter on X.

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The force ‌and frequency of Iranian ⁠missile launches will make bigger, ‌and their ‌vary ‌will change into ⁠wider, mutter ⁠media cited the commander of ‌the Innovative Guards Aerospace Power as ‌saying on Monday (March 9, 2026).

From now ⁠on, no missiles ‌can be launched with warheads lighter than ‌one ton, Majid Mousavi mentioned. 

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The stranded West Indies and South Africa squads will creep away India on Tuesday (March 10, 2026) on a shared charter flight to Johannesburg following their exits from the T20 World Cup.

From Johannesburg, the West Indies squad will proceed to Antigua.

This shared flight used to be arranged after both groups were stranded in India for several days attributable to world airspace restrictions amid the war within the Heart East.

The amount of avid gamers for the time being final in India are 12 from the West Indies plus 10 increase workers and 12 from South Africa plus two increase workers.

The flight will creep away for Johannesburg at 2.30 p.m.

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Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday (March 9, 2026) unveiled a raft of austerity measures designed to save gas, as oil prices fly attributable to the US-Israeli battle on Iran.

Oil prices have jumped above $100 a barrel for the first time since Russia’s stout-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, as Iran launched retaliatory strikes at crude-producing Gulf nations.

PM Sharif, who described the resolution as “sophisticated”, mentioned he used to be fervent to steer positive of additional will increase that might per chance hit the population, many of whom reside in poverty.

But he mentioned in a televised address that motion used to be an necessary, warning: “The vitality disaster is the new disaster.”

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U.S. President Trump mentioned it’s “too quickly to ‌talk about” seizing Iran’s ⁠oil. 

He additionally mentioned he ⁠thinks Iran “made a huge mistake” picking Mojtaba Khamenei as its new supreme leader, the U.S. ‌President educated ‌ NBC Data ‌in ‌an ⁠interview ⁠on Monday (March 9, 2026). Mr. Trump had previously disregarded the younger Khamenei as a “light-weight”, and had insisted again that he’ll deserve to have a converse in appointing a brand new leader.

President Donald Trump is reviewing “all credible alternate choices” for controlling oil prices amid the joint U.S.-Israeli operation in opposition to Iran, the White Residence mentioned on Monday (March 9, 2026), insisting that basically the most modern spike used to be “non permanent.”

“President Trump and his complete vitality team of workers have had a solid sport thought to preserve the vitality markets acquire neatly before Operation Chronicle Fury started, and so they’re going to proceed to verify all credible alternate choices,” White Residence spokeswoman Taylor Rogers mentioned in a press free as much as AFP.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Monday (March 9, 2026) declared his increase for his Lebanese counterpart Joseph Aoun within the latter’s effort to disarm Hezbollah, mutter media reported.

“We stand alongside Lebanese president Joseph Aoun in disarming Hezbollah,” Mr. Sharaa mentioned throughout a video conference with high European officers.

The Syrian military has bolstered its troop deployments on the country’s borders with Lebanon and Iraq, a Syrian authorities offer educated AFP on Wednesday (November 4, 2026).

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Israel’s International Ministry mentioned on Monday (March 9, 2026) that Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei used to be a “tyrant” cherish his slain father, and would proceed what it described as the Iranian “regime’s brutality”.

In a put up on X that incorporates a portray of Mojtaba Khamenei and his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, protecting weapons, the ministry wrote: “Mojtaba Khamenei. Cherish Father Cherish Son”.

“Mojtaba Khamenei’s fingers are already stained with the bloodshed that defined his father’s rule. One other tyrant to proceed the Iranian regime’s brutality,” the ministry mentioned, in Israel’s first response to Mojtaba Khamenei’s resolution as supreme leader following the killing of his father on February 28 in Israeli strikes.

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Ships anchored within the Gulf or transiting the Strait of Hormuz are changing their tracking data to boast links to China in an try to evade Iranian attacks, per data from transport tracker Marine Traffic analysed by AFP.

Iran has successfully closed the necessary waterway since U.S.-Israeli strikes on it started on February 28, and as a minimum 10 vessels were attacked since.

But by claiming to have an “all-Chinese language crew” aboard, or changing their shuttle space to “Chinese language proprietor”, vessels are linking themselves to Iran’s necessary economic associate, Beijing.

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Human Rights Ogle on Monday (March 9, 2026) accused Israel of “unlawfully” using white phosphorus over residential parts of a southern Lebanese metropolis closing week.

“The Israeli defense force unlawfully archaic artillery-fired white phosphorus munitions over properties on March 3, 2026, within the southern Lebanese metropolis of Yohmor,” the Original York-based rights neighborhood mentioned in a tale.

HRW added that it “verified and geolocated seven pictures showing airburst white phosphorus munitions being deployed over a residential fraction of the metropolis and civil defense workers responding to fires in as a minimum two properties and one vehicle in that situation”.

In response, the Israeli defense force mentioned it “is for the time being unaware and can’t confirm exercise of shells that have white phosphorus in Lebanon as claimed.”

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The Dutch authorities ‌on Monday (March 9, 2026) mentioned it would ⁠send a frigate to the Mediterranean ‌at France’s request to ‌abet provide protection to ‌Cyprus ⁠and ⁠various allies and acquire maritime traffic imperilled by ‌the escalating disaster in West Asia.

The authorities ‌mentioned closing week that France had ⁠requested it to present an ‌air defence and recount frigate to enhance the Charles de ‌Gaulle airplane carrier that President Emmanuel Macron mentioned ⁠can be ⁠despatched to the Mediterranean.

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France’s Emmanuel Macron mentioned Monday that “profound” changes to Iranian management might not occur “via American-Israeli bombings on my own”, together with that battle within the Heart East might proceed for “several weeks”.

“I don’t mediate you would per chance build profound regime substitute or changes within the political device via bombings on my own,” Mr. Macron mentioned aboard France’s Charles de Gaulle airplane carrier for the time being stationed within the Mediterranean.

The battle brought on by U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, “on this intense fraction”, might closing “several days, per chance several weeks”, he mentioned.

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The toll from Israeli strikes on Lebanon rose to 486 of us killed and 1,313 wounded for the reason that originate of battling closing week, the Lebanese Successfully being Ministry mentioned on Monday (March 9, 2026).

“The toll of the Israeli aggression from morning time on Monday, March 2, until Monday afternoon, March 9, has risen to 486 martyrs and 1,313 wounded,” the ministry mentioned in a press free up.

The Ministry had previously reported a dying toll of 394. 

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The United Arab Emirates ambassador to the United International locations in ‌Geneva called on Monday for a de-escalation of the U.S.-Israeli battle on Iran ⁠and a return to negotiations.

“De-escalation, de-escalation, de-escalation. ⁠It’s some distance a standing mutter we have got, and we are succesful of proceed to present that,” Ambassador Jamal Jama al Musharakh educated reporters in Geneva.

The UAE ‌is amongst the six Gulf states which were subjected to Iranian drone and missile strikes for the reason that battle started.

There were extra ‌than 1,400 attacks on the UAE in most modern days that killed four civilians and injured 114 others, the ambassador mentioned.

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Air India and Air India Utter will feature a total of 60 flights to and from cities in West Asia, together with 32 non-scheduled services and products connecting the UAE.

On Tuesday (March 10, 2026), Air India and Air India Utter will together feature 14 flights to and from Jeddah, whereas Air India Utter will feature 14 services and products to and from Muscat.

“Moreover the scheduled services and products, Air India and Air India Utter would feature a total of 32 advert hoc non-scheduled flights between Indian cities and the United Arab Emirates [UAE] on 10 March 2026, field to the provision of slots and various conditions prevailing on the respective level of departure on the time,” a press free up mentioned on Monday (March 9, 2026).

These 32 flights will hook up with Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and Ras Al-Khaimah from various Indian cities.

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President Donald Trump mentioned on Monday (March 9, 2026) that he used to be “nowhere shut to” deciding ‌whether or not to send U.S. troops into Iran to ⁠acquire the stockpile of extremely enriched uranium there.

“We haven’t made any ‌resolution on that. We’re nowhere shut to it,” Mr. Trump ‌educated the Original York ‌Post ⁠when requested about ⁠reported discussions between Israel and the United States on per chance deploying special forces to Iran ‌to rob and acquire the topic topic. A longstanding dispute over Iran’s nuclear program escalated into ‌defense force war ten days ago, with the U.S. and Israel launching strikes ⁠in opposition to Iran and Iran responding with attacks in all places in the Heart ‌East.

Without offering proof, Mr. Trump mentioned closing month that Tehran used to be starting up to rebuild the nuclear program that he claimed had been “obliterated” by ‌U.S. strikes in June closing twelve months.

Iran denies seeking a nuclear arsenal, saying its ⁠enrichment of uranium – a project that ⁠produces gas for power vegetation and nuclear warheads depending ‌on its duration – is strictly for civilian exercise.

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Kuwait’s emir on Monday (March 9, 2026) condemned Iran’s attacks on his country, where 12 of us were killed to this level, as Tehran strikes out on the Gulf in accordance with U.S.-Israeli attacks.

“Our country has been subjected to a brutal attack by a neighbouring Muslim country, which we have got in tips a chum, though we have got not current the exercise of our land, airspace, or coasts for any defense force motion in opposition to it, and we have got over and over told them of this via our diplomatic channels,” mentioned Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad al-Sabah in a televised speech.

He additionally insisted on Kuwait’s “stout and inherent dazzling to self-defence”, talking for the first time since Iran’s attacks started on February 28.

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European Union international policy chief Kaja ‌Kallas mentioned on Monday (March 9, 2026) that ⁠Israel might still close its operations in Lebanon and ‌that diplomacy gives the ‌splendid likelihood of stopping ‌Lebanon ⁠from sliding ⁠into chaos.

“Hezbollah’s resolution to attack Israel in increase ‌of Iran endangers the total mutter and provides a lethal ‌dimension. Israel has the dazzling to self-defence in ⁠line with world law,” Ms. Kallas mentioned in ‌a press free up.

“On the same time, Israel’s response has been heavy-handed. Its retaliation is ‌causing mass displacement and is additional destabilising a fragile worry,” ⁠she mentioned, together with ⁠that “Lebanon’s sovereignty and territorial integrity ‌desires to be respected.” 

President Donald Trump on Monday (March 9, 2026) mentioned Australian Prime ‌Minister Anthony Albanese educated him 5 ⁠participants of the Iranian national girls folk’s soccer team of workers had ‌been “sorted” amid fears they ‌can be punished.

Australia’s ‌SBS ⁠Data earlier mentioned ⁠5 avid gamers had “broken free” after the team of workers used to be eliminated from the ‌Asian Cup tournament and were now below the safety of the ‌federal police, seeking the aid of the authorities.

“5 have already been ⁠sorted, and the relaxation are ‌on their formulation,” Mr. Trump mentioned in a Truth Social Post after talking to Albanese. “Some, nonetheless, feel they ‌must return due to they’re shy referring to the safety of ⁠their families, together with threats ⁠to these family participants within the occasion that they ‌don’t return.” 

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Israel’s U.N. ambassador, Danny Danon, mentioned on Monday (March 9, 2026) that the new Supreme Chief of Iran, Mojtaba Khamenei, ‌has the same radical tips as within the previous, and Israel will goal any person ⁠who promotes radical tips in opposition to it.

“Altering the man on the head doesn’t substitute the regime,” Mr. Danon educated ‌reporters on the United International locations when requested about Iran’s naming of Khamenei to ‌replace his father, Ali Khamenei, who used to be killed ‌on ⁠the first day of the battle ⁠the U.S. and Israel launched in opposition to Iran on the quit of closing month.

“The brand new leader, unfortunately, is extra of the same ideology, the same ‌radical tips, and … any person that will promote these radical tips in opposition to us, we are succesful of goal them, we are succesful of glean them,” Mr. Danon mentioned.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin mentioned on Sunday (March 9, 2026) ‌that the Iran battle had ⁠brought about a world vitality disaster and cautioned that ‌oil production dependent on transport via ‌the Strait ‌of ⁠Hormuz might ⁠quickly reach to a total quit.

Russia is the arena’s second ‌greatest oil exporter and holds the arena’s greatest reserves of ‌pure gas.

“If European corporations and European investors without note reach to a resolution to reorient themselves and offer us with long-term, sustainable cooperation, free from political pressures, free from political pressures, then creep forward. We’ve never refused,” Mr. Putin mentioned in a televised meeting.

“We’re ready to work with Europeans, however we desire some indicators from them that they’re ready and exciting to work with us and can even be obvious that this sustainability and balance,” he added.

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President Tayyip ‌Erdogan mentioned on Monday (March 9, 2026) that ⁠Turkey’s most essential aim is to ‌aid the ‌country out of ‌the “blaze” ⁠of ⁠the Iran battle.

Speaking after a cabinet meeting, he warned Tehran in opposition to taking “entertaining steps” after NATO defence programs intercepted a second Turkey-sure ballistic missile launched from Iran.

“No topic our staunch warnings, extraordinarily injurious and entertaining steps proceed to be taken that can jeopardise Turkey’s friendship. One might still not have interaction in such behaviour,” he mentioned, together with: “Persistence and stubbornness in wrongdoing desires to be steer clear off”.

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Israel launched on Monday (March 9, 2026) that its defense force had killed the head of Hezbollah’s Nasr unit working in fraction of southern Lebanon throughout renewed battling with the Iran-backed armed neighborhood.

Defence Minister Israel Katz “used to be briefed on the elimination of the commander of Hezbollah’s Nasr Unit”, Abu Hussein Ragheb, throughout an in a single day strike, a press free up from the Defence Ministry mentioned.

The Nasr unit operates in an jap sector south of Lebanon’s Litani River and opened Hezbollah’s unpleasant-border attacks on Israel following Hamas’s attack in October 2023.

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U.S. Democratic lawmakers on Monday (March 9, 2026) urged the Pentagon to habits an impartial probe of a reported attack on a college in Iran that left dozens dead, after allegations that American forces were to blame.

Iran has accused Israel and the United States of conducting the strike on the fundamental college within the southern metropolis of Minab in the starting up of the battle. Iran says the blast killed higher than 150 of us, most of them college students.

President Donald Trump has blamed Iran, whereas the Pentagon has mentioned it is investigating.

“Honest prognosis credibly suggests the strike might were conducted by US forces, which if dazzling, would make it no doubt one of the worst cases of civilian casualties in a long time of American defense force motion within the Heart East,” several excessive ranking senators mentioned in a joint observation.

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U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday educated the Original York Post he used to be “not delighted” with the appointment of Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei to replace his slain father as Iran’s supreme leader

“No longer going to inform you. I’m not delighted with him,” Mr. Trump educated the Post from his Doral golf club shut to Miami, when requested about his plans for the younger Khamenei.

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Iran’s security chief Ali Larijani mentioned on Monday (March 9, 2026) that it is “likely not” that any security can even additionally be finished within the Strait of Hormuz as long as the battle with the United States and Israel continues.

“It’s likely not that any security can be finished within the Strait of Hormuz amid the fires of the battle ignited by the United States and Israel within the mutter, in particular if that’s by the acquire of parties that weren’t some distance removed from supporting this battle and contributing to its fanning,” he posted on X.

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The United Arab Emirates decried on Monday (March 9, 2026) that it used to be being centered “in a extraordinarily unwarranted formulation” within the West Asian battle, stressing it would “not partake in any attacks in opposition to Iran”.

“We’ve been very positive before and leading as much as basically the most modern events we are witnessing within the mutter that as the UAE we are succesful of not partake in any attacks in opposition to Iran from our territory, and that we are succesful of also not be fascinated about this kind of war,” the UAE ambassador to the United International locations in Geneva Jamal Al Musharakh educated reporters.

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Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti on Monday (March 9, 2026) visited the Iranian Embassy and Cultural Centre in Original Delhi and expressed condolences over the dying of Iran’s Supreme Chief Ali Khamenei, whereas additionally raising concerns about Kashmiri college students stranded within the country amid the ongoing war in West Asia.

The war in West Asia entered its tenth day on Monday (March 9, 2026). Iran has named Mojtaba Khamenei as the new Supreme Chief following the dying of his father Ali Khamenei, signalling defiance amid the ongoing war tantalizing the United States and Israel.

The battle has to this level killed as a minimum 1,230 of us in Iran, 397 in Lebanon and 11 in Israel.

In a put up on X, Ms. Mufti mentioned she called on Iran’s Ambassador to India Mohammad Fathali, alongside with Budgam MLA Aga Syed Muntazir Mehdi.

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There used to be huge settlement amongst the Team of Seven Finance Ministers on ‌Monday (March 9, 2026) not to free up strategic oil reserves dazzling but, ⁠a G7 reliable mentioned.

G7 Finance Ministers held a teleconference earlier ‌on Monday (March 9, 2026) to debate a response to the in a single day ‌surge in oil prices induced ‌by ⁠the U.S.-Israeli battle ⁠on Iran.

They mentioned in a press free up they were ready to steal “an necessary measures” to enhance the ‌global offer of vitality, together with the free up of stockpiles, however stopped short of doing ‌it now.

“There used to be huge consensus on this,” one G7 reliable with perception into ⁠the G7 Finance Ministers’ discussions educated Reuters. “It used to be not that ‌any person used to be in opposition to, it’s dazzling about timing. More prognosis is required,” the reliable mentioned.

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Chinese language International Minister Wang Yi on Monday ‌(March 0, 2026) called for a ceasefire within the ⁠Gulf mutter as quickly as which you would per chance imagine, stressing that ‌the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity ‌of Gulf countries ‌might still ⁠be completely respected, according ⁠to statements from his Ministry.

Mr. Wang made the remarks in ‌a phone name with his Kuwaiti counterpart Jarrah Jaber Al-Ahmad ‌Al-Sabah on Monday (March 9, 2026) as Iran answered a U.S.-Israeli bombing advertising and marketing and marketing campaign ⁠with strikes in all places in the Gulf mutter.

In a ‌separate name, Mr. Wang educated Bahraini International Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani that China used to be ‌deeply inquisitive referring to the escalating worry and would play a constructive ⁠role in placing forward ⁠peace and balance within the mutter. 

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Iran launched unusual strikes on vitality installations within the Gulf on Monday (March 9, 2026), together with a petroleum advanced in Bahrain, as oil prices soared on fears over offer disruptions attributable to the West Asia battle.

Bahrain’s sprawling Al Ma’ameer oil facility used to be hit, causing a fireplace and ruin, with the country’s mutter-owned vitality agency Bapco declaring force majeure — basically the most modern Gulf producer to spark off the factual clause.

Energy producers in Qatar and Kuwait earlier made an analogous declarations, which are a warning that events previous their aid an eye on can even make them omit export targets.

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A south Lebanon parish lost its priest on Monday (March 9, 2026) when Father Pierre al-Rai of Al-Qlayaa died of wounds sustained from Israeli tank fireplace, per mutter media and a clinical offer.

The border village had not previously been caught up within the war between Hezbollah and Israel. It used to be not positive why Israeli forces centered the dwelling, which is located on the outskirts of the metropolis.

The National Data Agency (NNA) reported that a dwelling within the Christian metropolis used to be “hit twice in succession by artillery shelling from a hostile Merkava tank” on Monday (Mrch 9, 2026). – AFP

President Emmanuel Macron on Monday (March 9, 2026) warned that an attack on Cyprus used to be an attack on all of Europe and mentioned France and its allies were making ready a “defensive” mission to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as the West Asian battle entered its second week.

Speaking throughout a visit to Cyprus to debate regional security, Mr. Macron mentioned the mission can be geared toward escorting container ships and tankers in elaborate to gradually reopen the Strait of Hormuz “after the quit of the freshest fraction of the war”.

“It’s some distance a most essential for world alternate, however additionally for the float of gas and oil, which desires to be in a space to pass away this mutter as soon as extra,” mentioned Mr. Macron in Paphos on the southwestern waft of Cyprus.

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Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Monday (March 9, 2026) accused Hezbollah of practising the “give diagram” of the mutter for the sake of Iran’s pursuits, a week after it launched an attack on Israel, starting a brand new battle in Lebanon.

“Whoever launched these missiles needed to converse referring to the give diagram of the Lebanese mutter, plunging it into aggression and chaos… inquisitive referring to the sake of the Iranian regime’s calculations,” Mr. Aoun educated high European officers in an on-line meeting.

Mr. Aoun described Hezbollah as “an armed neighborhood delivery air the mutter, which locations no mark on the pursuits of Lebanon or the lives of its of us”, calling for “roar negotiations below world auspices” with Israel to close the battle.

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Pakistan’s authorities warned that the country’s air quality might aggravate attributable to air pollution in all places in the border in Iran within the wake of basically the most modern U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran’s oil websites.

The Pakistan Meteorological Division (PMD) in a press free up mentioned the western parts of the country can be hit by the air air pollution.

“Attributable to [the] most modern worry in Iran, the winds might elevate pollutants and deteriorate air quality within the western parts of the country,” the PMD mentioned in a press free up.

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U.S. ‌President Donald Trump ⁠mentioned on Monday (March 9, 2026) ‌that Australia ‌used to be “making ‌a ⁠gruesome ⁠humanitarian mistake” by allowing Iran’s national ‌girls folk’s soccer team of workers to ‌be despatched aid to ⁠Iran and called ‌on Australia’s Prime Minister ‌to present asylum to team of workers ⁠participants.

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India on Monday (March 9, 2026) issued an advisory, asking its citizens in Bahrain to remain vigilant, steal due care and adhere to the safety guidelines of the local authorities in peep of the prevailing worry within the mutter.

“Indian citizens are requested to have a examine updates and advisories issued by the Embassy of India in Bahrain and the local authorities,” the Embassy of India in Bahrain mentioned in an advisory.

The advisory additional mentioned that the Embassy of India in Bahrain is continuous to feature as fashionable.

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The Israeli defense force on Monday (March 9, 2026) mentioned that it used to be ignorant of ‌any clash with Hezbollah fighters in jap Lebanon, ⁠after the Iran-backed Lebanese neighborhood mentioned it had fought Israeli infantrymen drawing shut ‌from Syria.

Hezbollah mentioned in a press free up that its ‌fighters had noticed 15 helicopters ‌flying ⁠over jap Lebanon dazzling ⁠after midnight, shedding Israeli troops who were noticed drawing shut Lebanese territory from an situation on ‌the Syrian aspect of the border.

It mentioned that its fighters “confronted the helicopters and the infiltrating ‌forces with relevant weapons”. The Israeli defense force, nonetheless, mentioned that it used to be ⁠ignorant of any such incident.

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A long battle in West Asia might unleash a “sizable inflationary shock on the global and European economic system”, high EU reliable Valdis Dombrovskis mentioned on Monday (March 9, 2026).

“In a extra benign space where the war is contained within about a weeks, one can request that it build not need most essential acquire on the global and European economic system,” the EU Economy Commissioner educated reporters.

But he mentioned if it became “extra protracted” with persisted maritime disruption and attacks on Gulf vitality infrastructure, it will per chance per chance consequence in an “inflationary shock” with elevated vitality prices.

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Iran had sought India’s permission for 3 of its ships to dock at Indian ports and the approval used to be granted the next day, Exterior Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar mentioned on Monday (March 9, 2026), amid tensions within the Indian Ocean mutter following the sinking of an Iranian warship by the U.S. closing week.

In a press free up within the Parliament, Mr. Jaishankar mentioned one Iranian vessel, IRIS LAVAN, docked in Kochi on March 4 and its crew participants are for the time being staying in Indian naval services and products.

It used to be for the first time a senior minister mentioned that Iran requested for docking of three of its ships in Indian ports.

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Talks to advance President Donald Trump’s thought to quit the Gaza battle were on preserve since closing week when the U.S. and Israel jointly attacked Iran, sparking ‌a broader West Asia battle, three sources with roar data of the negotiations mentioned.

The close threatens to stall implementation of Mr. Trump’s flagship West Asia peace initiative, which he has solid as a most essential international policy aim. ⁠It comes not as much as a month after he secured billions of bucks in pledges for Gaza from Gulf Arab states — countries which are now going via Iranian attacks as the war widens.

Mr. Trump’s Gaza thought has hinged in fraction on whether or not Hamas militants would lay down their fingers in alternate for amnesty, a step ‌intended to pave the vogue for reconstruction and extra Israeli defense force withdrawals. White Residence mediators were backchanneling between Israel and Hamas on the disarmament verify.

– Reuters

NATO confirmed ‌on Monday (March 9, 2026) that it had ⁠intercepted one other missile heading ‌to Turkey.

“NATO stands ‌agency ‌in ⁠its readiness ⁠to defend all allies in opposition to any threat,” ‌NATO spokesperson Allison Hart mentioned ‌in a put up on X.

Turkey’s Defence ⁠Ministry mentioned earlier that NATO air defences had shot down ‌a ballistic missile fired from Iran. 

– Reuters

Two UAE servicemen were killed on Monday (March 9, 2026) after their helicopter crashed attributable to a “technical malfunction”, the defence ministry mentioned, as Iran retains up its advertising and marketing and marketing campaign within the Gulf.

“The Ministry of Defence publicizes the martyrdom of two participants of the military following the break of a helicopter attributable to a technical malfunction whereas performing their national accountability within the country on Monday,” it mentioned in a press free up on X.

– AFP

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Monday (March 9, 2026) postponed the Class 12 board checks till March 16 in West Asia amid the Iran-Israel war, officers mentioned.

The unusual dates weren’t straight launched.

“After a necessary review of basically the most modern worry in parts of the Heart East — Bahrain, Iran, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE — mental agony of the college students and the prevailing uncertainties, the board has determined to postpone (Class) 12 checks scheduled from March 12 to 16,” mentioned CBSE Examination Controller Sanyam Bhardwaj.

The brand new dates can be launched later, and for added checks, the worry can be reviewed on March 14, he mentioned.

– PTI

The ripples from battle within the Heart East are already being felt in Europe, with rising vitality prices and NATO allies centered, EU chief Ursula von der Leyen mentioned Monday (March 9, 2026).

Oil prices soared on Monday (March 9, 2026), peaking dazzling short of $120 a barrel as the U.S.-Israeli battle in opposition to Iran persisted into a second week, with Tehran launching unusual retaliatory strikes within the Gulf.

“We’re now seeing a regional war with unintended penalties. And the spillover is already a actuality this day,” the European Commission president educated EU ambassadors, forward of a noon name with Heart Jap leaders.

Hezbollah on Monday (March 9, 2026) welcomed the sequence of Mojtaba Khamenei as Iran’s new Supreme Chief, pledging allegiance after his predecessor and father, Ali Khamenei, used to be killed in U.S.-Israeli attacks.

“We in Hezbollah lengthen our warmest congratulations and blessings on this occasion. We renew our pledge of loyalty to this blessed advance and our steadfastness on the traipse of allegiance,” the neighborhood mentioned in a press free up.

Hezbollah entered the West Asia battle a week ago by attacking Israel in accordance with the killing of Ali Khamenei.

– AFP

French President Emmanuel Macron mentioned that an attack on Cyprus used to be an attack on all of Europe as he spoke throughout a visit to the island nation after it used to be centered by Iranian-made drones.

“When Cyprus is attacked, it is Europe that’s attacked,” Mr. Macron mentioned in Paphos alongside the leaders of Cyprus and Greece.

“The defence of Cyprus is clearly a key field for your country, for your neighbour, associate and buddy, Greece, however additionally for France and, with it, the European Union,” he added.

– AFP

Greece will look increase ⁠from various ‌European states ‌to ‌boost ⁠the ⁠European Union’s naval force Aspides ‌amid the Iran war, ‌Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis ⁠mentioned on Monday ‌in Cyprus. 

– Reuters

France will ‌send two frigates as fraction ⁠of the European Union’s naval ‌mission Aspides within the Crimson ‌Sea, ‌French ⁠President Emmanuel ⁠Macron mentioned on Monday (March 9, 2026).

“We’re in ‌the formulation of developing a purely ‌defensive, purely escort mission, which desires to be ⁠ready alongside with both European ‌and non-European states,” Mr. Macron mentioned after meeting with Cypriot ‌President Nikos Christodoulides and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos ⁠Mitsotakis in Cyprus. 

– Reuters

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer mentioned on Monday (March 9, 2026) the authorities used to be monitoring the economic fallout of the U.S. and Israel’s battle in Iran, as vitality prices soared attributable to present disruptions.

“The longer this goes on, the extra doubtless the possible of an affect on our economic system, affect on the lives and households of all people and each alternate,” Mr. Starmer mentioned, talking at a neighborhood centre in London.

“Our job is to acquire forward of that, to glean in all places in the nook, assess the threat, computer screen the hazards, and work with others in terms of that.”

– AFP

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned on Monday (March 9, 2026) that 11 countries had tapped Kyiv for abet in easy programs to counter Iranian drones, being launched by Tehran in all places in the Heart East as retaliation for U.S.-Israeli strikes.

“As of now, there are 11 requests from countries neighbouring Iran, European states, and the U.S. There might be positive interest in Ukraine’s expertise in protecting lives, related interceptors, digital war programs, and training,” Mr. Zelenskyy mentioned.

Ukraine touts itself as having world-class drone defence capabilities, built up via avoiding nightly barrages of Iran-vogue attack drones launched by Russia.

– AFP

British Finance Minister Rachel Reeves ‌will give an update ⁠on the authorities’s economic response to ‌the worry in West Asia ‌in Parliament in a while ⁠Monday (March 9, 2026), a spokesperson for Prime Minister Keir ‌Starmer mentioned.

The spokesperson mentioned that the observation ‌would come with an update on a virtual ⁠G7 Finance Ministers’ meeting, ‌where countries were attributable to debate co-ordinating their responses after U.S.-Israeli strikes ‌in opposition to Iran, and Tehran’s retaliatory strikes in opposition to several ⁠Gulf nations precipitated ⁠a spike in oil ‌prices. 

– Reuters

The necessary neighborhood of Thais evacuated from Iran for the reason that originate of its battle with the United States and Israel arrived in Bangkok on Monday (March 9, 2026), with some lauding Tehran and its slain Supreme Chief.

The neighborhood of 29, together with home workers, university college students and children, landed at Thailand’s most essential world airport on Monday (March 9, 2026) afternoon, after crossing into Turkey from Iran over the weekend.

– AFP

Several extra explosions were heard all over Doha and warning sirens sounded in Manama on Monday (March 9, 2026), per AFP journalists, as Iran pressed its aerial advertising and marketing and marketing campaign in opposition to Gulf neighbours.

The oil-prosperous Gulf states were centered by waves of drones and missiles since Tehran launched its retaliation advertising and marketing and marketing campaign within the wake of the U.S. and Israeli attacks in opposition to Iran.

– AFP

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban called on the European Union to suspend sanctions on Russian vitality on Monday (March 9, 2026) and ‌convened an emergency authorities meeting to address rising gas prices dazzling 5 weeks before a pivotal election. Hovering ⁠oil prices, fuelled by the battle in Iran, drove diesel and petrol prices in Hungary elevated, together with to challenges Orban faces in ‌the scamper-as much as a parliamentary election on April 12 where he’s battling to retain his 16-twelve months ‌grip on power.

No topic having launched a string of ‌voter-beautiful ⁠measures, which have widened the budget deficit, Orban’s ⁠Fidesz acquire together is within the aid of the centre-dazzling Tisza in most polls, even if the final consequence of the vote stays extremely dangerous. Figures released earlier on Monday confirmed that a pension high-up, elevated ‌family benefits, and wage hikes pushed the deficit shut to half of of the stout-twelve months goal within the first two months of 2026.

– Reuters

NATO air defences ‌within the jap Mediterranean have shot ⁠down a second ballistic missile that used to be ‌fired from Iran and ‌entered Turkey’s airspace, ‌the Turkish ⁠Defence Ministry ⁠mentioned on Monday (March 9, 2026), warning that this might steal an necessary ‌steps without hesitation.

This marks the second Iranian ballistic ‌missile that has centered NATO member Turkey in ⁠the closing week.

In a press free up, the ‌Ministry mentioned some ammunition parts had fallen within the southeastern province of ‌Gaziantep and that there were no casualties within the ⁠incident. It called on ⁠all parties to adhere to ‌Ankara’s warnings. 

– Reuters

Kuwait held a defense force funeral on Monday (March 9, 2026) for 2 Interior Ministry officers ‌it mentioned were killed “whereas performing their accountability”.

The mutter — ⁠which hosts U.S. defense force installations and has reach below Iranian drone and ‌missile fireplace throughout Tehran’s battle with Israel and ‌the U.S. — mentioned the ‌two ⁠men died early ⁠on Sunday (March 8, 2026), however did not creep into additional miniature print.

Kuwait’s military individually mentioned areas shut to the ‌world airport were hit on Sunday (March 8, 2026) and its forces had intercepted missiles and drones.

The Interior ‌Ministry mentioned on Sunday (March 8, 2026) it mourned “the martyrs of accountability, Lieutenant Colonel Group Abdullah ⁠Emad Al-Sharrah and Major Fahad Abdulaziz Al-Mejmed, from the Traditional ‌Administration of Land Border Security, who were martyred at morning time”.

– Reuters

An air strike hit a imperfect of Iraq’s Hashed al-Shaabi shut to the northern metropolis of Mosul on Monday (March 9, 2026), per two officers from the susceptible paramilitary organisation now integrated into the country’s fashionable forces.

One of many officers blamed the strike on the United States, saying it hit a imperfect within the Bartella situation of Iraq’s Nineveh province.

Since the originate of the Heart East battle, there were a pair of strikes on bases of the Hashed, an umbrella organisation of armed groups, many of which have solid ties to Iran.

– AFP

The investigative neighborhood Bellingcat says the newly released video “looks to contradict” U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim that Iran used to be to blame for an explosion at an Iranian college that killed over 165 of us in the starting up of the battle raging within the Mideast.

It comes as mounting proof parts to U.S. culpability for the February 28 strike, which hit a college adjoining to a Innovative Guard imperfect in Minab, Iran, within the country’s southern Hormozgan Province. Consultants interviewed by The Connected Press, citing satellite image prognosis, converse the college used to be doubtless struck amid a short succession of bombs dropped on the compound.

The video shared by Bellingcat is a 3-second clip of a video taken the day the college used to be struck and circulated Sunday by Iran’s semiofficial Mehr data agency. The video shows a munition falling on a constructing, sending a darkish plume into the air that mingles with smoke that doubtless came from earlier strikes on the compound. Trevor Ball, a Bellingcat researcher, geolocated the video to a mutter shut to the college, something additionally accomplished by the AP.

– AP

The European Union insisted on Monday (March 9, 2026) there used to be “no drawing near near oil offer” shortage in Europe as the Heart East battle despatched vitality prices hovering.

The benchmark mark for a barrel of crude has soared previous $100 for the first time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine four years ago.

“There might be not any drawing near near oil offer shortage in Europe. Per our guidelines, all member states will deserve to have the 90 days emergency stocks,” European Commission spokeswoman Anna-Kaisa Itkonen mentioned.

– AFP

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Cyprus on Monday (March 9, 2026) to debate regional security, whereas Paris deployed warships to the Mediterranean and the U.S.-Israeli battle on Iran stretched into a second week.

Mr. Macron, who landed in Paphos,, met Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for talks.

European Union member Cyprus used to be centered closing week by Iranian-made drones, leading Macron to elaborate France’s Charles de Gaulle airplane carrier to the Mediterranean, as neatly as a frigate and air defence items to the island nation.

– AFP

Bangladesh has tightened security at filling stations, despatched college students dwelling and even scrapped light displays for independence and Ramadan celebrations, officers mentioned Monday, as the Heart East battle worsens the country’s vitality crunch.

The South Asian nation of 170 million of us imports 95% of its oil and gas wants.

Following the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran, and Tehran’s retaliatory strikes throughout the Gulf, the national oil company, Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC), restricted gas sales for a range of vehicles on Sunday (March 8, 2026).

– AFP

Thousands of of us flocked on Monday (March 9, 2026) to a central square within the Iranian capital to pledge allegiance to the Islamic republic’s new leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, AFP journalists mentioned.

The crowds which gathered in Tehran’s Enghelab square saw many carrying the Iranian flags and portraits of Mojtaba Khamenei, son of dreary Supreme Chief Ali Khamenei who used to be killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes on February 28.

– AFP

The Israeli defense force mentioned it had launched new “wide-scale” strikes on Tehran, Isfahan and southern Iran on Monday (March 9, 2026), quickly after one man used to be killed in Israel following missile launches from Iran.

“The IDF has dazzling begun a wide-scale wave of strikes in opposition to infrastructure of the Iranian terror regime all over Tehran, Isfahan, and southern Iran,” the defense force mentioned in a press free up.

– AFP

Washington has educated non-an necessary workers to pass away its consulate shut to the southern Turkish metropolis of Adana shut to a key NATO imperfect and ordered U.S. citizens to pass away “southeast Turkey”, the U.S. embassy to Ankara mentioned on Monday (March 9, 2026).

“On March 9, 2026, the Division of Instruct ordered non-emergency U.S. authorities workers and U.S. authorities employee family participants to pass away Consulate Traditional Adana attributable to the safety risks,” it mentioned on X, referencing a bolt advisory saying: “Americans in southeast Turkey are strongly impressed to pass away now”.

– AFP

Lebanon’s Parliament on Monday (March 9, 2026) postponed legislative elections by two years, per a press free up from the Parliament Speaker, attributable to the battle between Israel and the Iran-backed neighborhood Hezbollah.

Lebanon used to be drawn into the Heart East battle closing week when Hezbollah attacked Israel in accordance with the killing of Iranian Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei throughout U.S.-Israeli strikes.

“Parliament licensed the extension of its term for 2 years,” a press free up from parliament speaker and key Hezbollah ally Nabih Berri read, after the polls were first and most essential attributable to be held in Might well per chance.

MPs convened even as Israeli warplanes flew above the nearby southern suburbs of Beirut.

– AFP

Saudi oil giant Aramco has begun cutting ‌output at two of its ⁠oilfields, two sources mentioned on Monday, after the ‌necessary Strait of Hormuz ‌used to be choked ‌by ⁠the U.S.-Israeli battle on ⁠Iran and subsequent attacks on the waterway.

It used to be ‌not straight positive at which fields and by how ‌phenomenal production used to be being curtailed. Aramco, which has ⁠been rerouting about a of its crude ‌cargoes to the Crimson Sea port of Yanbu, did not straight reply to ‌an emailed request for observation.

Several of Saudi Arabia’s neighbours, ⁠which have additionally ⁠been field to attacks, have additionally ‌reduce again production. 

-Reuters

An Indian national in Israel used to be injured after shrapnel from an Iranian missile struck him within the neck, officers mentioned on Monday.

The man, who used to be injured on Sunday, underwent surgical procedure at Ichilov Clinic in Tel Aviv and is now in acquire situation.

“He arrived yesterday in necessary situation with a neck wretchedness. The clinical team of workers at Ichilov fought to save his lifestyles, and he underwent a long surgical procedure. Fortunately, he’s now stabilising,” a spokesperson for the health center mentioned. 

-PTI

Iran on Monday accused European countries together with France of developing the conditions that led to the United States and Israel attacking the Islamic republic and triggering a battle.

“European countries have unfortunately helped make these conditions,” mentioned International Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei throughout a weekly press briefing.

“In desire to insisting on the rule of law, as an more than a few of standing as much as the bullying and excesses of the United States, they spoke and agreed with them on the UN Security Council concerning the dialogue on restoring sanctions, and all these items together emboldened the American and Zionist parties to proceed committing their crimes.”

-AFP

Russian President Vladimir Putin ‌congratulated Mojtaba Khamenei ⁠on his appointment as Iran’s new ‌leader, the Kremlin ‌mentioned ‌on ⁠Monday.

Mr. Putin mentioned ⁠he used to be confident Khamenei would proceed ‌his father’s work “with honour” and unite the ‌Iranian of us “within the face of excessive ⁠trials.”

He added that Russia ‌would proceed to stand by Tehran, saying he ‌wished to “confirm unwavering increase for Tehran ⁠and cohesion with our ⁠Iranian guests.” 

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Iran’s International Mministry spokesperson downplayed the ‌likelihood of a ceasefire as ⁠long as attacks proceed, Iran’s Student Data ‌Network reported on Monday, together with ‌that Iran ‌would ⁠proceed to ⁠defend itself.

“There might be not any cloak talks about ‌something else however defence and crushing retaliations in opposition to enemies,” Esmaeil ‌Baghaei mentioned, before reiterating that Tehran has no ⁠battle to fight with its Muslim neighbours ‌however must goal “services and products archaic by aggressors” for its reliable defence.

The International Ministry ‌spokesperson additionally denied any Iranian attack in opposition to Turkey, Azerbaijan ⁠and Cyprus, pointing ⁠as an more than a few at what he called “fraudulent ‌flag attacks.” 

-Reuters

Senior BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Monday condoled the dying of Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and called for peace in West Asia, declaring that battle just is not a resolution to any conducting, however an field in itself. 

The susceptible Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi visited the Embassy of Iran right here and met Ambassador Mohammad Fathali to present his heartfelt condolences on the dying of Khamenei.

Mr. Naqvi mentioned that battle just is not a resolution to any conducting, however is an field itself.

“Peace is a most essential for the safety of humanity. I pray that might ‘amrit’ of peace emerge from this ‘sea of disaster’,” the BJP leader mentioned.

Mr. Naqvi mentioned that peace desires to be restored to make definite that security of lakhs of Indians, residing in Iran and various Gulf nations, and stylish of us. 

-PTI

More than 10 explosions were heard by AFP journalists in Tel Aviv on Monday, after the Israeli defense force mentioned it had detected new missiles launched from Iran.

“A short time ago, the IDF known missiles launched from Iran in the direction of the territory of the Instruct of Israel. Defensive programs are working to intercept the threat,” the defense force mentioned. 

Israel’s first responders mentioned one particular person used to be killed by shrapnel as several blasts rocked central Israel on Monday, quickly after the defense force reported detecting new missiles launched from Iran.

“After performing resuscitation efforts, we had to converse the dying of a particular person, roughly 40 years faded,” Magen David Adom mentioned in a press free up, together with that the dying occurred at a boost mutter in central Israel.

It added that one other man used to be severely injured and evacuated for therapy, with both casualties having sustained “several shrapnel injuries to their bodies”.

-AFP

In light of the evolving geopolitical worry in West Asia, Nasscom has on Monday (March 9, 2026) issued one other advisory to member corporations urging heightened cyber vigilance and preparedness all over alternate continuity and cybersecurity frameworks.

Whereas alternate operations for the time being reside acquire, organisations are proactively reviewing contingency plans and strengthening resilience measures to mitigate possible disruptions, the apex physique mentioned in a media conversation. 

In step with Nasscom, the member corporations have already taken diversified measures to enhance alternate continuity in affected geographies. Companies are additionally reviewing and activating contingency frameworks to make definite that operational continuity and uninterrupted service offer within the tournament of regional disruptions.

To make definite that security of workers, organisations are prioritising employee neatly-being by enabling remote work preparations and closely monitoring the worry for workers located in affected geographies, the apex physique mentioned. 

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Sri Lanka will grant free one-month visas to a neighborhood rescued from Iranian vessels, allowing them to remain in Sri Lanka below humanitarian security, a senior minister mentioned on Sunday (March 8, 2026).

Speaking on the topic, Minister of Public Security Ananda Wijepala mentioned an analogous choices can be taken within the long scamper if an necessary, stressing that such measures have to not intended to enhance or wretchedness any particular acquire together. 

“They are going to be granted one month for free visas,” Mr. Wijepala educated reporters.

“We are succesful of also not be taking any sides however will act on a humanitarian foundation by formulation of world law,” Mr. Wijepala confused.

There are 32 who had survived the U.S. submarine attack on the sunk ‘Iris Dena’ frigate. One other 186 were evacuated from ‘Iris Bushehr’. 

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There used to be no Indian fatality within the projectile incident that struck a residential compound in Saudi Arabia, the Indian Embassy in Riyadh mentioned on Monday.

It added that an Indian national injured within the incident on Sunday is present process therapy at a authorities health center.

“It’s a topic of support that there has been no Indian fatality within the unlucky incident at Al Kharj the day prior to tonight,” the mission mentioned in a social media put up.

The Embassy mentioned it has been fervent with the concerned Saudi authorities concerning the topic. 

-PTI

An air strike hit Beirut’s southern suburbs on Monday (March 9, 2026), Lebanese mutter media reported, after Israel warned it would goal branches of a agency linked to Hezbollah.

Pictures on AFPTV’s reside broadcast confirmed wide plumes of smoke rising from the placement, a stronghold of the Iran-backed armed neighborhood.

Earlier on Monday (March 9), the Israeli defense force warned it would strike branches of Al-Qard al-Hassan, a Hezbollah-linked financial agency essentially working within the neighborhood’s strongholds. –AFO

Qatari authorities have arrested higher than 300 of us for sharing pictures and “deceptive data” throughout days of attacks by Iran, the Interior Ministry mentioned on Monday.

The of us arrested “filmed and circulated video clips and printed deceptive data and rumours that might scramble public thought”, a press free up mentioned. 

-AFP

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has spoken to Donald Trump to debate the worry in West Asia after the U.S. President had been extraordinarily necessary of the U.Okay.’s response to the strikes on Iran.

Mr. Trump took to social media to brush off Mr. Starmer’s thought to send airplane carriers to the mutter as an try to price up for wars “already won”.

Downing Avenue released a readout of the Mr. Trump-Mr. Starmer name on Sunday, seen as an effort to light over the so-called U.Okay.-U.S. “special relationship”.

“The leaders started by discussing basically the most modern worry within the Heart East and the defense force cooperation between the U.Okay. and U.S. via the exercise of RAF (Royal Air Power) bases in increase of the collective self defence of companions within the mutter,” a 10 Downing Avenue spokesperson mentioned.

“The Prime Minister additionally shared his heartfelt condolences with President Trump and the American of us following the deaths of six U.S. infantrymen. They regarded forward to talking again quickly,” the spokesperson mentioned.

It came after the Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed that no doubt one of the UK’s two airplane carriers has been placed on developed readiness, with the crew of HMS Prince of Wales docked in Portsmouth educated they desires to be ready to pass away within days. — PTI

Heavy explosions rocked the Iranian capital on Monday (March 9, 2026), AFP journalists mentioned, as the battle with Israel and the United States raged.

It used to be not straight positive what used to be centered in Tehran however the blasts were heard all over several parts of the metropolis, the reporters mentioned. — AFP

The affect of global crude mark upward thrust on inflation just is not estimated to be sizable at this level as India’s inflation is shut to the decrease sure, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman mentioned on Monday.

In reply to a written verify within the Lok Sabha, Ms. Sitharaman mentioned the associated price of both global crude oil and the Indian basket has been on a declining trajectory for the previous one twelve months, till the geo-political clashes commenced in West Asia on February 28, 2026.

“Between the quit of February and untill March 2, 2026, the Coarse Oil FOB Label (Indian Basket) rose from $69.01/barrel to $80.16/barrel. On condition that India’s inflation is shut to the decrease sure, the affect on inflation just is not estimated to be sizable at this level,” Sitharaman mentioned.

She used to be replying to a verify on whether or not the authorities has reviewed the affect of rising global crude oil prices on inflation within the country. 

-PTI

The concern round ‌Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant ⁠remained stressful however there had ‌been no strikes on ‌the ‌facility ⁠or the ⁠boost mutter, Russian mutter nuclear agency Rosatom ‌mentioned on Monday citing its head ‌Alexei Likhachev.

Mr. Likhachev mentioned boost of additional items ⁠at Bushehr had been suspended, ‌though higher than 600 workers remained on ‌mutter to preserve gear and total work that ⁠might not ⁠be halted. 

-Reuters

Japan can have in tips steps to cushion ‌the economic blow from rising gas prices induced ⁠by the war within the Heart East together with curbing gas prices, Prime Minister ‌Sanae Takaichi mentioned on Monday. 

“Many folks are shy ‌about rising gas prices,” Ms. Takaichi ‌educated ⁠Parliament. “Taking this into story, ⁠the authorities has been pondering since closing week what steps it will steal.” 

“We’re pondering steps ‌to steer positive of gas prices from rising to ranges insupportable for the public,” she mentioned, together with that ‌such measures can be funded by tapping reserves. 

-Reuters

Azerbaijan mentioned on Monday it had ‌reopened its border crossings ⁠with Iran for all cargo traffic, the ‌Russian mutter-scamper TASS data ‌agency reported.

The ‌border ⁠crossings, one ⁠of the shortest land routes connecting Iran to its ‌ally Russia, were closed closing week after what Baku ‌described as an Iranian drone attack in ⁠the Nakhchivan exclave.

Leisurely on Sunday, Iranian ‌President Masoud Pezeshkian phoned his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev, telling him ‌Iran had not been fascinated referring to the Nakhchivan incident ⁠and that Tehran ⁠used to be investigating, Aliyev’s place of work mentioned. 

-Reuters

Iranians living in a international country might have property confiscated and face various factual penalties within the occasion that they explain ‌increase for the United States and Israel, the Iranian prosecutor ⁠fashionable’s place of work mentioned on Monday (March 9, 2026).

Some participants of the Iranian diaspora who desire ‌political substitute in Tehran took to the streets of ‌European and American cities to have a good time ‌the ⁠killing of Supreme Chief ⁠Ayatollah Ali Khamenei within the U.S.-Israeli battle in opposition to Iran. Iran on Monday named Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his ‌father. 

“A warning has been issued to these Iranians living in a international country who in various ways sympathise, increase ‌or cooperate with the American-Zionist [Israeli] enemy,” the prosecutor fashionable’s place of work used to be quoted as saying by ⁠mutter media. 

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China mentioned on Monday it opposes any concentrated on of Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, after threats by the Israeli defense force in opposition to a successor to his slain father, Ali Khamenei.

“China opposes interference in various countries’ inside of affairs below any pretext, and Iran’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity desires to be respected,” International Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun educated a press conference. 

-AFP

Iraq’s expert-Iran groups welcomed on Monday (March 9, 2026) the appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei as Iran’s new supreme leader after his predecessor and father used to be killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes.

The phenomenal Badr organisation mentioned the new management represents “blessed continuity of the traipse of the Islamic revolution”.

The Asaib Ahl al-Haq faction mentioned picking Mojtaba Khamenei shows “continuity” and “reinforcement of the Islamic republic’s role as a central pillar within the axis of resistance”, whereas Kataeb Hezbollah mentioned it reflects a profound understanding “of the existential challenges confronting the nation”.

-AFP

Saudi Aramco has ‌supplied higher than 2 million ⁠barrels of Saudi crude in ‌uncommon tenders as the ‌U.S.-Iran war ‌disrupted ⁠exports ⁠from West Asia, alternate sources mentioned.

The mutter ‌company supplied 2 million barrels of ‌Arab Heavy crude for March loading in ⁠no doubt one of the tenders ‌it issued closing week. It additionally supplied 650,000 barrels ‌of Arab Light crude in a separate ⁠tender, the of us ⁠mentioned.

-Reuters

Tehran is spellbinding to prohibit – or successfully shut – the Strait of Hormuz to transport, as fraction of basically the most modern escalation within the battle tantalizing Iran.

Markets have reacted to the global affect of closing this incredibly busy transport channel, specializing within the threat to oil and gas flows, the likelihood of elevated crude prices and the inflationary pressures that might per chance observe.

That worry is justified. But it certainly captures splendid fraction of the memoir. A sustained disruption of traffic via Hormuz wouldn’t simply constitute an vitality disaster.

It would additionally symbolize a fertiliser shock (where prices creep up dramatically and offer goes down) – and, by extension, a roar threat to global food security.

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Turkiye plans to deploy ‌six F-16 fighter jets to ⁠northern Cyprus on Monday (March 9, 2026) to ‌bolster the defences of the ‌Turkish ‌neighborhood ⁠there, broadcaster ⁠ NTV mentioned, citing a civil aviation reliable from ‌the breakaway Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

On Saturday (March 7), ‌a Turkish Defence Ministry offer mentioned ⁠Turkiye used to be pondering the deployment ‌of F-16 airplane to Cyprus, amongst various steps being taken ‌to be definite the safety of the Turkish Cypriot ⁠mutter as war ⁠spreads within the mutter.

-Reuters

The ‌Team of Seven (G7) Finance Ministers will talk about on ⁠Monday (March 9, 2026) a joint free up of oil from emergency reserves coordinated ‌by the International Energy Agency, the Financial ‌Times reported.

Three G7 ‌countries, ⁠together with the U.S., have ⁠to this level expressed increase for the premise, the FT mentioned citing sources, ‌and added that the ministers and the IEA Government Director Fatih Birol will preserve ‌a name to debate the affect of the Iran battle.

-Reuters

Exterior Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Monday (March 9, 2026) mentioned India stays in favour of peace, return to dialogue and diplomacy. India additionally advocates de-escalation, restraint, and guaranteeing security of civilians. Mr. Jaishankar, who mentioned the trends in West Asia are a deep space off for worry for all of us, mentioned we proceed to imagine dialogue and dialogue desires to be archaic to resolve all factors.

Making a suo moto observation on the war in Rajya Sabha, he mentioned the neatly being and security of the Indian neighborhood within the mutter stays the authorities’s precedence.

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Israel’s defense force mentioned it struck targets in central Iran on Monday (March 9, 2026), together with inside of security recount centres and missile delivery websites, within the first raid for the reason that Islamic republic appointed a brand new supreme leader.

“The Israeli Air Power… finished an additional wave of strikes on infrastructure all over Iran belonging to the Iranian regime,” a defense force observation mentioned.

The targets incorporated “a rocket engine production facility and just a few different long-vary ballistic missiles delivery websites” that threatened Israel, it mentioned.

-AFP

Bahrain’s mutter oil company declared force majeure on Monday (March 9, 2026) for its shipments after an Iranian attack space its refinery ablaze.

The mutter-scamper Bahrain Data Agency carried the announcement of the force majeure, a factual manoeuvre that releases an organization from its contractual tasks attributable to unprecedented circumstances.

It mentioned the corporate’s operations “were suffering from the ongoing regional war in West Asia and basically the most modern attack on its refinery advanced.” It insisted that local request might still be met.

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Saudi Arabia lambasted Iran on Monday (March 9, 2026), calling Tehran’s attacks concentrated on the dominion and their Gulf neighbours “reprehensible”, per a press free up from the International Ministry.

Saudi Arabia “renews the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s explain condemnation of the reprehensible Iranian aggressions in opposition to the Kingdom, the Gulf Cooperation Council states, a amount of Arab and Islamic countries, and friendly nations, which might not be permitted or justified below any circumstances,” the observation posted on the Ministry’s reliable X story read.

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Jap Prime ‌Minister Sanae Takaichi mentioned ⁠on Monday (March 9, 2026) the authorities ‌is pondering what ‌steps it ‌can ⁠steal ⁠to cushion the country’s economic system ‌from the West Asian war.

“Many folks are ‌shy about rising gas ⁠prices. Taking this into ‌story, the authorities has been pondering since closing ‌week what steps it will ⁠steal,” Ms. Takaichi ⁠educated parliament.

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Surging oil prices and the escalating U.S.-Israeli battle with Iran hammered airline stocks in Asia on Monday (March 9, 2026), piling stress on ‌carriers already navigating tight airspace as travellers streak to evade the West Asian war. 

Stranded passengers were paying substantial sums of money to flee West Asia, with closing-minute dashes to the airport, overland journeys to less impacted hubs and fighter jets from time to time escorting passenger planes out.

Shares in Australia’s Qantas Airways, Air Original Zealand, Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific, Japan Airways, Korean Air Lines and most essential Chinese language airlines China Southern and China ‌Jap all fell between 4% and higher than 10% on Monday.

Shares of Indian carriers IndiGo and SpiceJet dropped 7.5% and 5.6%, respectively.

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French President Emmanuel Macron is traveling to Cyprus on Monday (March 9, 2026), days after dispatching a warship to the east Mediterranean island nation, where a Shahed drone struck a British air imperfect on its southern waft closing week throughout the Iran battle.

Mr. Macron ordered the French frigate Languedoc to waters off Cyprus to bolster the European Union member country’s anti-drone and anti-missiles defences.

The French President additionally determined to send ground-based anti-drone and anti-missile defences to the island, which sustained the first drone attack on European territory.

France’s Charles de Gaulle airplane carrier is additionally anticipated to near within the Jap Mediterranean within the upcoming days.

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Malaysia is in ‌a factual economic mutter and ⁠has the skill to soak up some ‌of the changes stemming from ‌the ongoing ‌war ⁠in West Asia, Second Finance Minister Amir Hamzah Aziz ‌mentioned on Monday (March 9, 2026).

Home oil and gas gives ‌were “in factual form” without a market disruptions anticipated, ⁠Amir Hamzah educated reporters, ‌together with that the authorities had the skill to preserve the subsidised mark ‌of RON95 transport gas at 1.ninety 9 ringgit ⁠per litre for ⁠as a minimum two months.

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China’s envoy to West Asia urged de-escalation within the war-ridden mutter and called for attacks on civilians to be condemned throughout talks with Saudi Arabia’s international minister, Beijing mentioned on Monday (March 9, 2026).

Beijing used to be “deeply concerned” by basically the most modern worry within the mutter, special envoy Zhai Jun educated International Minister Faisal bin Farhan throughout talks on Sunday, per a Chinese language international ministry readout.

In a separate meeting with Jasem Mohamed Al-Budaiwi, head of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Mr. Zhai called for a “return to the negotiating song as quickly as which you would per chance imagine”.

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Academic institutions in Kashmir opened on Monday (March 9, 2026) after final closed for a week attributable to protests over the dying of Iran’s Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a U.S.-Israel air strike.

“Colleges and various elevated tutorial institutions resume functioning this day,” mentioned an reliable.

Donned in college uniforms, college students of diversified age groups made their formulation to their institutes on Monday morning.

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Investors in Indian stock market sold enormous at delivery pushing the benchmark indices down by 3% on March 9, 2026.

Nifty opened at 23,868.05 parts, down and Sensex at 77,056.75 parts. As of 9:37 a.m, they’re buying and selling at 23,769 parts and 76,715.44 parts. These ranges are amongst the bottom in in terms of 6 months.

Barring about a hundred stocks, all of them are declining since delivery at 9:00 a.m.

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Thick smoke used to be seen ‌rising from the route ⁠of the Bapco oil refinery ‌in Bahrain on ‌Monday (March 9, 2026), a be taught about ⁠mentioned.

Smoke ⁠surrounded the refinery after the authorities ‌earlier mentioned injuries and ruin were sustained ‌within the Sitra situation in consequence ⁠of an Iranian ‌drone attack, the be taught about added.

Bapco is Bahrain’s ‌most essential oil refinery and a key ⁠facility within the country’s ⁠vitality sector.

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Ukraine despatched interceptor drones ‌and a team of workers of drone ⁠consultants to present protection to U.S. defense force ‌bases in Jordan, President ‌Volodymyr ‌Zelenskyy ⁠mentioned in ⁠an interview with The Original York Times ‌printed on Monday (March 9, 2026).

The U.S. made the ‌request for abet on Thursday (March 5), and ⁠the Ukrainian team of workers left the ‌next day, Mr. Zelenskyy mentioned together with that it used to be ‌anticipated to near in West Asia quickly, according ⁠to the tale.

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Human Rights Ogle on Monday (March 9, 2026) accused Israel of “unlawfully” using white phosphorus over residential parts of a southern Lebanese metropolis closing week.

HRW added that it “verified and geolocated seven pictures showing airburst white phosphorus munitions being deployed over a residential fraction of the metropolis and civil defence workers responding to fires in as a minimum two properties and one vehicle in that situation”.

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China’s yuan on Monday (March 9, 2026) dropped to its weakest level in a month as the dollar reasserted its refuge space with the escalating West Asia battle roiling ‌global markets and boosting oil prices.

Authorities’ measures to close one-formulation currency bets additionally contributed to the ⁠yuan’s pullback, however analysts converse China’s economic restructuring might still increase the yuan within the long scamper. 

The onshore yuan opened at 6.9300 per ‌dollar, 0.3% away from the closing shut and the weakest level since February 9. It changed fingers ‌at 6.9217 round noon.

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The authorities of Qatar has strongly condemned an attack attributed to Iran that centered a residential facility in Al-Kharj. 

In an reliable observation released on Sunday (March 8, 2026) on X, Qatar described the strike as a necessary violation of world norms and warned that such actions might additional destabilise an already stressful regional ambiance. The observation emphasised that attacks concentrated on civilian areas undermine world law and threat escalating war all over West Asia.

Bahrain mentioned on Monday (March 9, 2026) that an Iranian drone attack on the island of Sitra injured 32 of us in a single day, as Gulf nations reported new attacks with Tehran pressing its retaliatory strikes in all places in the mutter.

All of the wounded were Bahraini citizens and there were four “necessary cases”, together with children, the Successfully being Ministry mentioned in a press free up carried by the mutter data agency.

The wounded incorporated a 17-twelve months-faded lady who suffered excessive head and jam injuries, and a two-month-faded exiguous one, per the Ministry.

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Bangladesh will shut all universities from Monday (March 9, 2026), bringing forward the Eid al-Fitr holidays as fraction of emergency measures to preserve electrical energy and ‌gas amid a worsening vitality disaster linked to the war in West Asia. 

Authorities ⁠mentioned the resolution applies to all public and personal universities in all places in the country, a pass that officers mentioned will ‌not splendid reduce again electrical energy consumption however additionally ease traffic jam, which results in gas ‌wastage.

Officers mentioned university campuses enjoy wide ‌amounts ⁠of electrical energy for residential halls, classrooms, laboratories ⁠and air-con, and the early closure would abet ease stress on the country’s strained power device.

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Iran’s International Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi has prolonged his increase to the country’s new management, following the reliable appointment of Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei as the third Supreme Chief of the Islamic Revolution.

The International Minister expressed his sentiments in a put up on X, formally welcoming the transition which took mutter throughout a most essential duration within the Islamic calendar.

In his put up, Mr. Araghchi mentioned, “Congratulations on the phenomenal sequence of His Eminence Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei as the third Supreme Chief of the Islamic Revolution, coinciding with the first blessed night of Qadr.”

Building on this sentiment, the International Minister went on to field a formal commitment on behalf of the diplomatic and security equipment to the new Chief of the Revolution.

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There used to be no Indian fatality within the projectile incident that struck a residential compound in Saudi Arabia, the Indian Embassy in Riyadh mentioned on Monday (March 9, 2026). 

It added that an Indian national injured within the incident on Sunday is present process therapy at a authorities health center.

“It’s a topic of support that there has been no Indian fatality within the unlucky incident at Al Kharj the day prior to tonight,” the mission mentioned in a social media put up.

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Japan’s Nikkei common fell 7% to a two-month low on Monday (March 9, 2026) amid a huge selloff, as a ‌surge in oil prices fanned fears of inflation and an economic slowdown. The Nikkei fell 6.98% to 51,740.46, ⁠its lowest level since January 9 by the noon ruin, whereas the broader Topix slipped 5.6% to 3,508.72.

The Nikkei common futures fell ‌as phenomenal as 7.8%, shut to a level that might have brought about the circuit breaker to suspend ‌buying and selling. Upright two weeks ago, both the Nikkei and ‌Topix ⁠hit tale highs on expectations of income boost, backed ⁠by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s stimulus and an synthetic intelligence-pushed rally.

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The Pune Municipal Corporation has temporarily closed the metropolis’s gas crematoriums following restrictions on the exercise of Liquefied Petroleum Fuel (LPG) parts such as propane and butane amid the ongoing West Asia war.

In step with the Pune civic physique, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Fuel issued an elaborate on March 5 directing that available propane and butane be prioritised for home LPG offer in all places in the country.

In peep of the resulting gas shortage, the Pune Municipal Corporation has determined to preserve its gas crematoriums closed from March 5 until additional orders, a civic reliable mentioned on Sunday (March 8, 2026).

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A loud explosion used to be heard in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Monday (March 9, 2026), an AFP correspondent mentioned, amid basically the most modern outbreak of battle between Iran-backed militant neighborhood Hezbollah and Israel.

Plumes of smoke were seen rising from the southern suburbs after the blast used to be heard, the AFP journalist reported.

The placement, a Hezbollah stronghold whose residents the Israeli defense force ordered to evacuate, has been pounded by Israel over the previous week however had not suffered any strikes since Saturday (March 7).

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Asian stock markets plunged on Monday (March 9, 2026) as oil prices soared 30% on fears about gives from West Asia as the U.S.-Israeli battle in opposition to Iran persisted into a second week without a signal of letting up.

Investors, already spooked by concerns over prolonged tech valuations and the substantial spending on AI, ran for the hills as crude rocketed to its absolute best level for the reason that Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

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The dollar surged on Monday (March 9, 2026) as hovering oil prices despatched investors scrambling ‌for cash on worries that a chronic West Asia battle might severely disrupt vitality gives and wretchedness global boost.

Towards the surging buck, the euro and sterling were ⁠down roughly 1% in Asia, whereas the Aussie and even the safe-haven Swiss franc equally tumbled, as the dollar proved king.

The euro closing traded 0.9% decrease at $1.1517, having slid to a 3-1/2-month low earlier within the session, whereas sterling slid 1% to $1.3294.

Towards the Swiss franc, the dollar used to be ‌up 0.75% at 0.7817. The Australian and Original Zealand bucks slid 0.77% and zero.5%, respectively.

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South Korean President ‌Lee Jae Myung mentioned ⁠on Monday (March 9, 2026) that authorities would ‌cap home gas prices ‌for ‌the ⁠first time ⁠in in terms of 30 years to have ‌a spike in prices after the war ‌in West Asia despatched global crude ⁠prices sharply elevated.

Speaking ‌at an emergency cabinet meeting, Lee mentioned in ‌the authorities would “without note implement and boldly implement” ⁠a most mark device ⁠on petroleum products.

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France will host a video meeting of G7 finance ministers on the West Asia disaster on Monday (March 9, 2026), as the battle fuels fears for the global economic system.

The French finance ministry mentioned in a press free up the meeting at 1:30 p.m. (1230 GMT) would “review the worry within the Gulf from an economic level of peep” and “events of most modern days”.

French Finance Minister Roland Lescure earlier educated Franceinfo radio he had agreed with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and various G7 finance ministers to preserve the meeting over a week after the originate of the U.S.-Israel battle in opposition to Iran.

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Oil prices eclipsed $114 per barrel for the first time since 2022 on Monday (March 9, 2026) as the Iran battle intensified, threatening production and transport in West Asia. 

The cost for a barrel of Brent crude, the world fashionable, surged previous $114 after buying and selling resumed on the Chicago Mercantile Alternate. That used to be up 23% from its Friday (March 6) closing mark of $92.69.

West Texas Intermediate, the sunshine, sweet crude oil produced within the United States, additionally used to be selling for about $114 a barrel. That’s 25% elevated than its shut on Friday (March 6) at $90.90.

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Japan might still feature all of its nuclear power vegetation available to offset the affect of the Iran ‌battle on electrical energy funds, Yuichiro Tamaki, the leader of a Jap ⁠opposition acquire together, mentioned. 

Japan depends on West Asia for round 95% of ‌its oil gives and 11% of its liquefied pure gas imports ‌with round 70% and 6% respectively ‌coming ⁠by technique of the Strait of Hormuz, which ⁠is successfully closed attributable to the battle.

“Unless we make stout exercise of nuclear power as a carbon-free power offer ‌with less dependence on overseas sources, electrical energy funds will inevitably upward thrust,” Mr. Tamaki, who heads the Democratic Party for the ‌Other folks, mentioned in a press free up on X.

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Vietnam is planning to steal away its import tariffs on fuels ‌to make definite that offers amid disruptions induced by the ⁠defense force war in West Asia, the authorities mentioned. 

The tariff pushing aside ‌is anticipated to closing until the ‌quit of April, the authorities ‌mentioned ⁠in a press free up issued ⁠dreary on Sunday (March 8, 2026), together with that a resolution is being ready by the Ministry ‌of Finance.

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Bahrain’s Ministry of Successfully being mentioned on Monday (March 9, 2026) that an Iranian drone attack which centered the Gulf nation’s island of Sitra in a single day wounded 32 civilians.

All of the wounded were Bahraini citizens and there were four “necessary cases”, together with children, mentioned the Ministry in a press free up carried by the Gulf nation’s mutter data agency.

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The Israeli defense force mentioned it launched a wave of strikes concentrated on “regime infrastructure” in central Iran on Monday (March 9, 2026), the first such announcement for the reason that Islamic republic appointed a brand new supreme leader.

Israeli forces have “begun an additional wave of strikes on Iranian terror regime infrastructure in central Iran”, the defense force mentioned in a short observation, quickly after saying strikes on Iran-backed militant neighborhood Hezbollah in Lebanon.

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Hezbollah on Monday (March 9, 2026) mentioned it used to be participating Israeli forces who landed in jap Lebanon by helicopter in all places in the Syrian border, the second such operation for the reason that outbreak of basically the most modern war with Israel.

Israel, which has saved up strikes concentrated on Hezbollah no topic a 2024 ceasefire, launched a pair of waves of strikes closing week all over Lebanon and despatched ground troops into border areas.

In a press free up on Monday (March 9), Hezbollah mentioned it detected “the infiltration of roughly 15 Israeli enemy helicopters” from the Syrian aspect of the border in jap Lebanon, an situation where Hezbollah holds sway.

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U.S. President Donald Trump ‌mentioned on Sunday (March 8, 2026) that ⁠when to quit the battle ‌with Iran will ‌be a “mutual” resolution ‌made ⁠with Israeli ⁠Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Speaking by phone with ‌ The Times of Israel, Mr. Trump mentioned Netanyahu will ‌have enter on resolving the ⁠war.

“I mediate it’s mutual … ‌a exiguous bit. We’ve been talking. I’ll make a resolution ‌on the dazzling time, however every thing’s ⁠going to be taken ⁠into story,” mentioned ‌Mr. Trump.

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The son of Iran’s dreary shah urged Canberra on Monday (March 9, 2026) to present protection to the Iranian girls folk’s soccer team of workers, who were branded “wartime traitors” after refusing to teach the national anthem whereas playing in Australia.

Australia is going via mounting stress to present asylum to the aspect, who are attributable to reach aid to Iran after bowing out of the Asian Cup.

Reza Pahlavi, who has positioned himself as an more than a few if the Islamic republic falls, mentioned the team of workers faced “dire penalties”.

“The participants of the Iranian Females’s National Football Crew are below most essential stress and ongoing threat from the Islamic Republic,” Mr. Pahlavi mentioned on X.

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Japan’s Nikkei common fell higher than 6% in a ‌huge selloff on Monday (March 9, 2026) after oil prices surged, stoking fears of ⁠inflation and economic slowdown.

The Nikkei fell 6.3% to 52,091.74 as of 0033 GMT. The ‌broader Topix slipped 5.39% to 3,514.97.

All however three of the Nikkei’s 225 parts fell.

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The US mentioned on Sunday (March 8, 2026) that it used to be ordering embassy workers to pass away Saudi Arabia as Iran strikes the dominion in retaliation for the attacks by Washington and Israel.

The Instruct Division mentioned in a bolt advisory it had “ordered non-emergency U.S. Government workers and U.S. Government employee family participants to pass away Saudi Arabia attributable to security risks.”

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Malaysian logistics agency MISC ‌Berhad mentioned it has ⁠activated an emergency response centre all over key ‌offices in West Asia to ⁠closely computer screen the ⁠evolving worry there, though there used to be no ‌indication of any prompt threat to its crew ‌or sources.

The battle threat top price has ⁠elevated for vessel anchorage within or ‌on transit to the Persian Gulf mutter, though splendid for ships ‌buying and selling within the placement, it mentioned in ⁠an emailed observation ⁠to Reuters.

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U.S. President Donald Trump warned on Sunday (March 8, 2026) that Iran’s next supreme leader wouldn’t closing long without his approval. 

Mr. Trump had previously demanded a converse within the appointment and disregarded the younger Khamenei as an unacceptable “light-weight”.

“He’s going to pray to acquire approval from us,” Mr. Trump educated ABC Data on Sunday (March 8), referring to Iran’s next leader. “If he doesn’t acquire approval from us he’s not going to closing long.”

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Several explosions were heard on Monday (March 9, 2026) within the Qatari capital Doha, AFP journalists mentioned, as Gulf nations reported new attacks with Iran pressing its retaliatory strikes in all places in the mutter.

Doha has been centered by waves of Iranian drones and missiles since Iran launched a sprawling retaliation advertising and marketing and marketing campaign in all places in the Gulf within the wake of U.S. and Israeli attacks in opposition to the Islamic republic.

Qatar’s Defence Ministry mentioned on Monday (March 9) that its forces had intercepted a missile attack.

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The U.S. defense force on Sunday (March 8, 2026) launched that a service member had died after being wounded in Saudi Arabia by an Iranian attack, the seventh American fight dying for the reason that battle started.

US Central Whisper (CENTCOM), which oversees American defense force forces in West Asia, mentioned in a press free up that the service member died on Saturday (March 7) night “from injuries purchased throughout the Iranian regime’s initial attacks in all places in the Heart East” on March 1.

It did not present additional miniature print referring to the circumstances of the attack and mentioned the service member’s identification used to be being withheld until 24 hours after notification of the particular person’s family.

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Stock markets in South Korea and Japan fell sharply in early alternate on Monday (March 9, 2026) after oil prices soared above $100 per barrel for the first time in nearly four years.

South Korea’s Kospi used to be down 6.7% whereas the Nikkei 225 in Tokyo used to be off round 5.8%, after buying and selling higher than 6% decrease earlier within the session.

West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the most essential U.S. oil benchmark, used to be buying and selling at $106.80 per barrel, up 17.4%.

U.S. President Donald Trump disregarded the spike as a “miniature mark to pay” to acquire rid of Iran’s nuclear threat, reiterating the White Residence’s insistence that the upward thrust is short.

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An Indian national is amongst two killed after a projectile fell on a residential space in Saudi Arabia on Sunday (March 8, 2026), officers mentioned.

The defense force projectile fell in a residential situation in Saudi Arabia’s al-Kharj Governorate on Sunday (March 8), killing two of us and injuring 12 others, the Saudi Civil Defence mentioned.

A Civil Defence spokesman mentioned the projectile struck a residential compound belonging to a repairs and cleansing company in Al-Kharj.

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Oil prices eclipsed $100 per barrel for the first time in higher than three-and-a-half of years on Sunday (March 8, 2026) as the Iran battle hinders production and transport in West Asia.

The cost for a barrel of Brent crude, the world fashionable, used to be at $107.97 after buying and selling resumed on the Chicago Mercantile Alternate, up 16.5% from its Friday (March 6) closing mark of $92.69.

West Texas Intermediate, the sunshine, sweet crude oil produced within the United States, used to be selling for about $106.22 a barrel. That is 16.9% elevated than it closed Friday (March 6) at $90.90.

Each might upward thrust or tumble as market buying and selling persisted.

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Iran fired its first missiles in the direction of Israel on Monday (March 9, 2026) after the appointment of the Islamic republic’s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, mutter broadcaster IRIB mentioned.

“Iran fires first wave of missiles below Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei in the direction of occupied territories,” IRIB mentioned on its Telegram channel.

It posted a portray of a projectile bearing the slogan “At Your Whisper, Sayyid Mojtaba,” a Shiite non secular reference.

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The 56-twelve months-faded mid-ranking cleric, who has survived the U.S.-Israeli air battle on Iran, used to be named as the successor after the council had roughly reached a “majority consensus”. Assembly of Consultants member Ayatollah Mohsen Heidari Alekasir, mentioned in a video on Sunday (March 8, 2026) that a candidate had been chosen in step with Khamenei’s guidance that Iran’s high leader desires to be “hated by the enemy”.

Mojtaba Khamenei is the second son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh. He used to be born on September 6, 1969, in Mashhad, a most essential Shia non secular centre in northeastern Iran. He has 5 siblings — three brothers and two sisters. 

Mr. Mojtaba spent most of his childhood amid his father’s active resistance in opposition to the Shah of Iran’s monarchy, which at closing led to the election of Ali Khamenei as the country’s Supreme Chief and the exercise of most essential political and military power. 

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Iran’s ‌Assembly of Consultants has named Mojtaba Khamenei ⁠to replace his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ‌as the country’s new supreme ‌leader, mutter ‌media reported ⁠on Sunday (March 8, 2026).

Mr. Mojtaba, a ⁠mid-ranking cleric with shut ties to the phenomenal Innovative ‌Guards, had long been viewed by parts of Iran’s ruling ‌institution as a possible successor to his father, who ⁠used to be killed after the United ‌States and Israel launched strikes on Iran.

His wife, Zahra Haddad-Adel, daughter of a susceptible speaker of parliament, additionally died within the U.S.-Israeli strikes per Iranian authorities.

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