Gunshots reported near Rihanna’s Los Angeles home. It remains unclear whether Rihanna was home when gunshots rang out near her Los Angeles residence Sunday afternoon. The Bullets and the Babies: A Mother’s Terror in the Hills of Beverly Hills Los Angeles: The gates of the Beverly Hills home are wrought iron, elegant, designed to keep […]
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Evidence mounts U.S. behind deadly Iranian girls’ school strike. 175 children. A missile. A school. No words. The smoke cleared. 175 lay silent. Little girls, books still open, would never learn again. The Girls of Minab: A Strike, A Denial, and 175 Empty Desks In the coastal town of Minab, in the shadow of the
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Father, mother, wife, son: Mojtaba Khamenei’s war losses (Mojtaba Khamenei reportedly lost his father, mother, wife and a son during the Iran war airstrikes.) Mojtaba Khamenei’s father, former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, was reportedly the first family member killed during the war. The Grief of the New Leader: A Family Lost to the War They
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Morning Digest: Oil dips; Pawar wins Rajya Sabha unopposed. The March 10 Dispatch: Promises from Afar, Politics at Home It was a Tuesday of contrasts. On one side of the world, the rumbling of war in West Asia came with a presidential promise that it would all be over soon. On the other, in the
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Trump says Iran war may end soon; Tehran rejects ceasefire talks. Iran says China, France, Russia sought ceasefire, but Tehran refuses talks without guarantees aggression against the state will stop. The Eleventh Day: Whispers of War, Screams in the Dark The war entered its eleventh day on a Tuesday, but for the people waking up
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Crude oil prices surge past $100 a barrel. Iraq, Kuwait and UAE cut oil output as storage tanks fill amid reduced ability to export crude. The numbers scrolling across the screen at Aliyah’s gas station on Chicago’s South Side told a story that needed no translation. Regular: $3.45. Premium: $3.89. Diesel: $4.60. The digits glowed
US furious after Israel strikes 30 Iranian oil depots. Israel’s strikes on 30 Iranian fuel depots stunned US, exposing first major rift since war began February 28. The smoke from Saturday’s strikes still curled over Tehran like a funeral shroud when phone lines between Tel Aviv and Washington ignited. What Americans had been briefed as
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Iran appoints Mojtaba Khamenei amid ongoing US-Israel strikes. Revolutionary Guards pledge loyalty as Iran war enters tenth day. The weight of leadership fell onto Mojtaba Khamenei’s shoulders not in the quiet halls of a seminary, but under the drone of jet engines and the distant crump of explosions. Monday, March 9th, was never going to
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Balen Shah’s party races toward landslide in Nepal Rapper Balen Shah’s party sweeps Nepal polls after protests The tea stall in Jhapa district had never seen anything like it. Old men who had voted since the monarchy days sat shoulder-to-shoulder with teenagers checking results on cheap smartphones, their faces lit by the glow of breaking
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First flight leaves Doha as Qatar reopens airspace Qatar has partially reopened its airspace, allowing limited evacuation and cargo flights to resume after days of disruption caused by the ongoing Iran war. Trump repeats demand for Iran’s ‘unconditional surrender’ The eighth day of war dawned not with sunlight, but with the red glow of explosions
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