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NewsFeedNew videos show destruction across Iran after US and Israeli air strikes, including damage to government buildings, residential neighbourhoods and Iran’s main sports stadium. Iranian media say dozens of strikes have hit multiple locations as fears grow of a wider regional conflict.Published On 5 Mar 20265 Mar 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2Shareplus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Police arrested a New York City education worker on charges of murdering a Bronx father in January.The suspect, Naya Brown, was taken into custody this week in connection with the shooting death of Keon Gill, 44, as he left a restaurant with his brother where they had been celebrating the victim’s birthday, according to the New York Post.Gill was fatally shot in the chest, while his brother, 35, was shot in the knee and survived the encounter.Brown is the second person to be arrested in the case, as police also arrested Pernell…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former President Barack Obama on Thursday endorsed Democrats’ redistricting effort in Virginia that could grant the party four additional seats in the House of Representatives.Virginia is one of several states engaged in a nationwide redistricting battle ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. So far, Obama has thrown his weight behind Democratic initiatives in both California and now Virginia.”Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy. But right now, they’re under attack,” Obama wrote on X Thursday.”Several Republican-controlled states have redrawn their congressional maps to give themselves an unfair advantage in…

Ontario Provincial Police are asking hunters not to target cattle that broke free from their trailer earlier this week. OPP in Kenora say at roughly 10 a.m. March 1, a crash involving a commercial vehicle caused cattle to break free from their trailer. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Officers say the cattle are in the area around Highway 17 and Inglis Lake Road, adding there is a plan to safely remove the remaining cows from the area.“In the interest of…

Plans for three days of mourning for slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei have been delayed as residents of the Iranian capital said bombing had been stepped up.

ALL ABOUT AI BEFORE IRAN WAROften, steep market declines have a lot more to do with flows than fundamentals. Prior to the Iranian crisis, hot money was flooding into Asia, looking for semiconductor and hard tech plays as global investors rotated out of software companies into AI infrastructure. The broadening of the AI trade laid the foundation for this week’s rout.Indeed, until now, the investment narratives were all for Asian hard tech. Samsung and SK Hynix were believed to have entered a years-long super cycle, after both companies said that the supply crunch in memory chips would continue until 2027. Meanwhile, TSMC’s strong earnings bolstered…

Seeking to lessen its dependence on China for rare earth elements—which are essential for magnet production—Japan is currently negotiating with India. The discussions focus on a joint exploration for rare earth deposits located in the desert state of Rajasthan, according to a Reuters report. Joint exploration and depositAccording to India’s Mines Minister, G. Kishan Reddy, three hard rock rare earth deposits have been identified in the western Indian states of Rajasthan and Gujarat. These deposits contain an estimated 1.29 million metric tons of rare earth oxides. This announcement was made last month.Building on a preliminary agreement concerning critical minerals signed last year,…

Iran has launched operations targeting Iranian and Iraqi Kurdish groups in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in neighbouring Iraq as the regional war ignited by the United States and Israel entered its sixth day, with more than 1,000 people killed across the country.State television, Press TV, reported early on Thursday that Tehran was striking “anti-Iran separatist forces”, referring to Iranian and Iraqi Kurdish groups believed to be based in mountainous, hard-to-reach areas near the Iran-Iraq border.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listIranian missiles hit Sulaimaniyah city in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, according to local reports.“We targeted the headquarters of Kurdish…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The war in Iran has caused smelter closures and “force majeure” declarations across the aluminium industry in the Middle East, threatening a supply crunch in the key industrial metal with global stocks already close to historic lows. Several big producers have declared they are no longer able to honour their contracts, including Aluminium Bahrain (Alba), one of the world’s biggest smelters, and Norsk Hydro, which jointly operates the Qatalum smelter with Qatar Aluminium Manufacturing Company.The Qatalum smelter started a controlled shutdown this week…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Bodycam video from the Austin mass shooting, which is being investigated as a terrorist attack, will be released on Thursday as the county’s liberal district attorney announced he would take no action against the three officers who killed the suspect.In a news release on Wednesday, Travis County District Attorney José Garza announced no action would be taken against the three police officers who killed 53-year-old Ndiaga Diagne. Diagne shot and killed three people and left more than a dozen other people injured on Sunday outside a bar in Austin, Texas.”Today, the Travis…