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Kate Middleton says cancer diagnosis made her aware of alcohol intake: reports
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Kate Middleton this week admitted she rarely drinks alcohol after her cancer diagnosis two years ago.
“Since my diagnosis I haven’t had much alcohol,” the Princess of Wales said when offered a pint at Fabal Beerhall while touring London’s Bermondsey Beer Mile on Thursday, according to several U.K. outlets. “It’s something I have to be a lot more conscious of now.”
The princess asked owner Hannah Rhodes if the beerhall had any non-alcoholic brews.
“We don’t yet, I’m afraid,” Rhodes told her, The Independent reported. “I would love to do that one day, but we would need quite a bit of tech to do it properly.”
Kate Middleton this week admitted she rarely drinks alcohol after her cancer diagnosis two years ago. (Kin Cheung-WPA Pool/Getty Images)
The 44-year-old drank a soda instead, but said of Prince William, who was touring the breweries with her, “You like cider,” according to a reporter from The Sun.
“I’m a cider man,” William agreed, according to E News. “I like cider. I grew up on cider in the West Country.”
“Since my diagnosis I haven’t had much alcohol. It’s something I have to be a lot more conscious of now.”
Middleton revealed in 2024 that she had been diagnosed with an undisclosed type of cancer.
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Kate Middleton and Prince William visited the Southwark Brewing Company at the Bermondsey Beer Mile on Thursday. (Kin Cheung-WPA Pool/Getty Images)
“In January, I underwent major abdominal surgery in London, and at the time, it was thought that my condition was noncancerous,” Middleton said in a video in March 2024 following speculation about her health. “The surgery was successful. However, tests after the operation found cancer had been present. My medical team therefore advised that I should undergo a course of preventive chemotherapy, and I am now in the early stages of that treatment.”
In January of last year, the princess announced, after finishing her treatment in the fall of 2024, that her cancer was in remission.
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Alcohol is classified as a Group 1 carcinogen, meaning it raises the risk for cancer.
“You can lower your risk for cancer by drinking less alcohol or not drinking at all,” the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says on its website. “All drinks that contain alcohol, including red and white wine, beer, and liquor, increase the risk of cancer.”
Kate Middleton and Prince William also toured Fabal Beerhall on Thursday. (Kin Cheung-WPA Pool/Getty Images)
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The CDC says that several cancers are linked to alcohol consumption, including mouth, throat, voice box, esophagus, colon and rectum, liver and breast.
“Some studies show that drinking three or more drinks that contain alcohol per day increases the risk of stomach and pancreatic cancers,” the CDC adds. “Drinking alcohol may also increase prostate cancer risk. All kinds of drinks that contain alcohol increase the risk of cancer. Drinking less alcohol is better for your health than drinking more.”
Kate Middleton stirred a brewhouse kettle at the Southwark Brewing Company at the Bermondsey Beer Mile on Thursday. (Kin Cheung-WPA Pool/Getty Images)
The royal couple shared a video montage of their day at several breweries on their official Instagram.
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“Stopping along Bermondsey Beer Mile learning about Southwark’s long history as the centre of London’s beer production and the breweries that keep the tradition alive today,” they wrote. “Great to see innovation, craftsmanship and community coming together.”
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Funny Jokes: The judge asked the thief how he stole despite being the owner of the house, the thief gave such a unique answer, read this and you too will be forced to laugh!
Laughter is considered the best medicine in this hectic life. When the tiredness and stress of the day increases, then some funny jokes bring a smile on the face. Funny jokes not only make us laugh, but also make the atmosphere light and pleasant. Here we have brought some such light and funny jokes for you, after reading which you will not be able to stop laughing.
Joke-1
Beggar: Baba, give me something to eat..!
Man: Baba, will you eat yesterday’s bread?
Beggar: Yes, I will eat..
Man: Then come tomorrow…
Joke-2
Servant: Sir, you are always in your company.
Why do you hire only married people?
Boss: Because, they become accustomed to tolerate insults.
And those people are not in a hurry to go home either!
Joke-3
Papa: Sonu son, perhaps today you have touched your hair with my brush.
Brush your teeth…
That’s why this brush smells so bad…
Sonu: No papa, I used this for our cat’s teeth.
Have cleaned it!!
Joke-4
Judge: How did you steal even though the owner was in the house?
Thief: Hey Judge sir, you have such a good job.
The salary is also so good, then you can do all this
What will you do after learning?
Joke-5
Ramu asked a married man very lovingly –
When do you come online at night?
The walls of pain shook when the man said –
After washing dishes at night!
Joke-6
wedding always good food
It should be done only by the one who makes it.
Because
love can work after marriage
But not hungry!!
Joke-7
everyone in the stock market
wants to be jhunjhunwala
All those people on the stock market
Makes one tingle!!
Joke-8
Medicine is given so quickly in case of human fever
does not search
As soon as possible.
When his phone’s battery is low
Starts looking for charger!!
Joke-9
Boy: Friend, save me from that girl….
Friend: Why what happened?
Boy: Ever since I told her to tear this heart.
Seeing that your name will be crazy,
That crazy person has been chasing me with a knife ever since!!
Joke-10
Santa: What is your brother doing these days?
Banta: Nothing friend, I had opened a shop.
But now he is in jail…
Santa: Why is that?
Banta: You opened the shop with a hammer, right?
Gautam Gambhir explains why he backed Abhishek: Team India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir explained why he gave a chance to Abhishek Sharma.
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Gautam Gambhir explains why he backed Abhishek: Team India’s opening batsman Abhishek Sharma had a very bad start in the ICC T20 World Cup 2026. Abhishek was out on a duck in three consecutive matches, but despite this he kept getting chances and in the final he showed his impact as to why he was being given chances.
New Delhi: Leaving aside the final of the ICC T20 World Cup 2026, the tournament was nothing special for Team India’s opener batsman Abhishek Sharma. Abhishek could not even open his account in the first three matches, but after this he scored two half-centuries, including the half-century in the final. After continuous flop shows in the beginning of T20 World Cup for Team India, Abhishek Sharma was given a chance.
In such a situation, now Team India coach Gautam Gambhir has told why Abhishek was not dropped from the playing eleven. Gambhir said in Geo Star’s program, “My experience in IPL 2014 was worse than that when I was out for zero in four consecutive matches. I just told him that people will look at your scores and talk about your form, but actually you are not in bad form, you are just not able to score runs.
Gautam Gambhir had full confidence in Abhishek Sharma
He said, “Your form can be assessed correctly only when you have played 20 to 30 balls and he has not played even 20 balls yet. I just wanted him to play more aggressively in every next match than the previous one.
The head coach said, “There was no doubt about Abhishek. To be honest, we all had full confidence in every player selected to represent the country in the T20 World Cup. Apart from Abhishek Sharma, Gautam Gambhir also praised Team India’s wicketkeeper batsman Sanju Samson. Regarding Sanju, Gambhir said that if he remains in his rhythm then he can change the course of the match against any team in the first 6 overs. Let us tell you that Sanju had played consecutive half-centuries in the last three matches of the T20 World Cup.
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101 students of Jammu and Kashmir will reach India from Iran, 90 crossed Azerbaijan border, rescue operation continues
The campaign to evacuate Indian medical students from Iran is going on. The first batch of about 101 students, including many students from Jammu and Kashmir, is expected to reach India on March 15. According to the information, the first batch will leave from Zvartnots International Airport in Yerevan, Armenia at 1:25 am via Iran. The students will travel via Dubai before reaching India.
90 students reached Azerbaijan
Officials said around 90 students have already entered Azerbaijan, while Indian nationals stranded in Iran are moving towards several international borders under the evacuation route. Meanwhile, National Vice President of All India Medical Students Association (AIMSA) Dr. Mohammad Momin Khan said that efforts are on to bring back all the students stranded in war-torn Iran.
He said that the students of Isfahan and Arak who are currently staying in their respective hostels have requested the concerned authorities including AIMSA to raise their concerns with the authorities and expedite their rehabilitation. He said that his anxiety was increasing due to uncertainty about his rehabilitation program.
Many students from Islamic Azad University and Iran University of Medical Sciences have reached Azerbaijan under the evacuation route, while others are still traveling towards border checkpoints. Another group of students traveled from Qom and successfully reached Tabriz, where they spent the night. They are now heading towards the Armenian border, from where onward travel arrangements will be made.
Family members expressed gratitude
Students studying in Kerman were evacuated to Qom on the evening of 13 March, while students from Shiraz University of Medical Sciences are also currently stranded there. And further instructions regarding their evacuation and travel arrangements are awaited. Families of students in Jammu and Kashmir have expressed relief at the progress of the evacuation, but appealed to the authorities to ensure the safe and timely return of the remaining students stranded in several parts of Iran.
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Jargon-lovers are worse at their jobs, say boffins • The Register
Workers who believe “leveraging cross-functional synergies” sounds profound may want to rethink their career trajectory because a new study suggests people who fall for corporate word salad also tend to perform worse at their jobs.
Researchers from Cornell University have developed what they call “the Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale,” a tool designed to measure how impressed people are by business school-style jargon that sounds strategic but says very little.
The findings, described in a recent study, suggest that employees who rate this sort of language as insightful are more likely to struggle with analytical thinking and workplace decision-making.
To build the scale, researchers ran four studies involving more than 1,000 working adults in the US and Canada. Participants were shown a mix of genuine corporate statements and nonsense lines generated by what the researchers call a “corporate bullshit generator” – effectively a tool that mashes together buzzwords into sentences that sound like they came straight out of a quarterly strategy meeting.
Examples included lines such as “actualize a renewed level of cradle-to-grave credentialing” and “pressure-test a renewed level of adaptive coherence.” Participants were then asked to rate how meaningful or insightful the statements appeared.
The idea was to measure how easily someone interprets impressive-sounding language as legitimate business insight. According to the researchers, that trait turns out to correlate with some less flattering cognitive patterns.
People who scored higher on the Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale tended to perform worse on tests measuring analytical thinking, cognitive reflection, and fluid intelligence. They also made poorer judgments in workplace decision-making scenarios designed to mimic common business problems.
In other words, the employees most impressed by corporate jargon were also the ones least likely to think critically about it.
That doesn’t mean the buzzword enthusiasts were miserable at work, though. In fact, the opposite appears to be true.
According to the researchers, people with higher receptivity to corporate jargon were more likely to view their bosses as charismatic leaders and to feel inspired by corporate messaging. They were also more likely to use the same language themselves, helping to keep the buzzword cycle alive.
The researchers say the result can create a feedback loop within organizations. Leaders who speak in vague, buzzword-heavy language may be seen as visionary by employees who find that style persuasive, which only encourages more of the same corporate word salad.
The work builds on earlier research into what psychologists call “bullshit receptivity,” effectively the tendency to see deep meaning in statements designed to sound impressive while saying very little.
Applied to the workplace, the idea suggests that corporate jargon sticks around not just because executives enjoy using it, but because many people respond to it as if it were genuine insight.
So the next time someone proposes “synergizing scalable paradigms,” it may not be a bold strategic breakthrough. It might simply be a quick way to find out who in the room is nodding along and who is quietly wondering what on earth that was supposed to mean. ®
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France votes in local elections seen as crucial indicator for presidential poll | France
France has begun voting in the first round of municipal elections, seen as crucial a test of the political temperature before next year’s presidential election.
The vote for mayors and councillors in 35,000 villages, towns and cities across France is focused on local issues including security, housing and refuse collection and is very different from national elections.
But the two-round vote held on consecutive Sundays — particularly the ballot in large towns and cities — will be scrutinised for what it can reveal about party strategy and alliances in France’s increasingly fragmented political landscape before the 2027 presidential race.
Emmanuel Macron’s two terms in office end next year and there is uncertainty about which candidates will run for the presidency of the EU’s second-largest economy. Two years after Macron called a snap election in 2024, parliament remains divided, with no absolute majority, split between the left, far-right and centrists.
The far-right anti-immigration National Rally (RN) is seen as a key contender in the presidential race, but has traditionally struggled to establish itself at the local level, and lost councillors in the last municipal elections in 2020.
The RN is seeking to hold on to the biggest city it runs: Perpignan, with a population of 121,000 close to the Spanish border. It hopes to win another city, with targets including Toulon on the south coast and Nîmes in the south-east.
A big RN win in a large city would allow the party to claim that it is building momentum. It is the main opposition challenger in Marseille, France’s second biggest city, run by a leftwing coalition since 2020. In Nice, France’s fifth biggest city, Éric Ciotti – who quit as leader of the traditional right’s party, Les Républicains (LR), to join forces with the RN in 2024 – is hoping to win the city from his bitter rival and one-time rightwing ally, Christian Estrosi. How the RN fares in some cities will depend on whether parties on the left form a kind of alliance or agreement to block the far right between the first and second rounds.
Historically, France’s major cities have been governed either by centre-left groupings, including the Socialists, or Les Républicains. Green-led coalitions won significant cities in the last municipal elections in 2020, including Lyon, but are under pressure as they try to hold on to their gains.
The party of the radical leftwinger Jean-Luc Mélenchon, La France Insoumise (LFI), is also seeking to gain a foothold at a local level before the presidential race. It is aiming to have more councillors, particularly in the greater Paris area, and is targeting mayoral posts in towns such as Roubaix in the north.
There will be a close eye on any kind of alliance or allegiance formed between the two rounds to hold back rival groups in certain towns or cities. Any local deal that brings the traditional right and the far right closer, breaking down a historical line between the two, is being carefully watched. It also remains to be seen whether leftwing coalitions led by Socialists can form deals with Mélenchon’s LFI to hold back potential RN gains, for example in Marseille.
François Kraus, the head of political studies at the IFOP polling institute, said that the municipal vote should not be seen as a “primary for the presidential election”, but would nonetheless reveal key trends and dynamics. “These municipal elections will no doubt provide a useful barometer of the political climate,” he told Agence France-Presse.
A key focus will be the battle to be mayor of Paris. The right’s Rachida Dati, who served as culture minister under Emmanuel Macron, as well as justice minister under Nicolas Sarkozy, is seeking to take Paris from the left, which has been in power for 25 years.
Dati was the first woman of north African and Muslim heritage to hold a major French government post and has redefined political celebrity in France. She is one of the best-known candidates running in the municipal elections. In September Dati will go on trial in Paris for alleged corruption and abuse of power. She was accused of lobbying for the Renault-Nissan carmaking group when she sat in the European parliament. She has denied all wrongdoing.
Emmanuel Grégoire, a deputy mayor and Paris Socialist MP, is heading a leftwing coalition in Paris in what will be a close-run race, with five candidates potentially making it through to the final round.
Also being closely watched is the northern port city of Le Havre, where the former prime minister Édouard Philippe has staked his presidential ambitions for 2027, suggesting that if he does not win the city he has run since 2014, his candidacy for the presidential race would be in question.
Many mayoral candidates have distanced themselves from political parties, reflecting voters’ exasperation with politics and the deadlock in parliament. A large number of mayors, particularly in villages, are standing as independents.
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Gautam Gambhir statement on Sanju Samson: Team India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir has praised Sanju Samson’s batting.
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Gautam Gambhir statement on Sanju Samson: Indian cricket team head coach Gautam Gambhir has given a big statement regarding Sanju Samson. Gambhir believes that if Sanju remains in his rhythm then he has the ability to finish the match in just 6 overs. Apart from this, he also expressed his views regarding dropping Sanju from the team.
New Delhi: Indian team head coach Gautam Gambhir has praised Sanju Samson a lot. Gambhir believes that when Sanju Samson is in his form, he can snatch the match from the opposition team in the power play itself. Samson performed brilliantly in the final stages of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup. He helped India win the title for a record third time by scoring half-centuries in the semi-finals and final.
Abhishek Sharma and Samson together scored 92 runs in the powerplay in the final and thus snatched the match from New Zealand. Gambhir said on Geo Star, “We know what Sanju can do. There was never any doubt about his talent and explosive batting. If he gets into rhythm, he can win the match in the first six overs itself.
Sanju had scored fifty in the last three matches
Samson’s performance against New Zealand before the World Cup was not good and hence he did not get a place in the playing eleven in the initial matches of the ICC tournament, but when he got a chance in the do-or-die match against Zimbabwe, Samson achieved the rhythm by scoring 24 runs in 15 balls and after this he scored unbeaten 97, 89 runs and 89 runs in the next three matches.
Gambhir said, “I told him this in the gym. Actually we were both training together and I just told him that you will play against Zimbabwe and he said, ‘Okay.’ Our conversations are informal in this way. This is not like the relationship between a head coach and a player. It’s a relationship in which most of our face-to-face interactions happen during practice sessions.
Sanju was not getting a place due to team combination
In Samson’s absence, India’s top order included three left-handed batsmen in Ishan Kishan, Abhishek Sharma and Tilak Verma, but Gambhir insisted that the decision to include Samson in the playing eleven was not with the aim of breaking the left-handed batsman’s combination but to give the team more attacking strength.
He said, “I know that many people will talk about that we wanted to break the combination of the three left-handed batsmen present in the top order, it is not like that at all. We just wanted to be more aggressive. For the last one and a half years, our mindset has been to come out on the field and perform as aggressively as possible. Gambhir said, “The reason for bringing Sanju into the team was not to control the off-spinner from the other end but was based on whether we could be more aggressive in the first six overs.”
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Iran war: What is happening on day 16 of US-Israel attacks? | Explainer News
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Israel and US attacks on Isfahan kills 15 people as Tehran carries out retaliatory attacks on Israel and Gulf countries.
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The United States and Israel carried out attacks on Iran’s Isfahan city in the early hours of Sunday, killing at least 15 people, as the conflict entered its 16th day.
Sirens blared in central Israel on Sunday as Iran launched multiple barrages of missiles in retaliatory attacks on the country. Tehran has continued its attacks in the Gulf countries.
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list of 4 itemsend of listMeanwhile, US President Donald Trump claimed that Tehran “wants to make a deal”, as he called for a naval coalition to help keep the Strait of Hormuz open.
Here is what we know about what happened in the past 24 hours:
In Iran
- Residential areas in Shiraz, the capital of Fars province, were attacked. “The Zionist-American criminal regime attacked a residential and deprived area in the city of Shiraz in a terrorist and anti-human act,” Tasnim news agency reported this morning.
- An attack on the industrial city of Isfahan in central Iran killed 15 people and wounded several.
- Twenty people were arrested in northwestern Iran for attempting to cooperate with Israel, according to a Tasnim report citing a statement by the prosecutor’s office in the West Azerbaijan province. They are accused of sending location details on Iran’s military and security assets to Israel.
- IRGC’s 50th wave of attacks: The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it launched its “50th wave” of operations against US bases in the region. The operation was “carried out against the bases of the US terrorist army” in the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Kuwait.
- On Kharg attacks: Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the US used cruise missiles launched from the UAE, near Dubai. Tehran could retaliate, and it would be dangerous for the region, he added.
- New supreme leader: Araghchi said there is “no problem” with the new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, after US officials claimed earlier that he was wounded and “likely disfigured”.
- The IRGC warned the US to move its industries out of the Middle East and urged people to stay away from factories in which US companies hold shares, Iranian state media reported, following strikes that killed several civilian workers at nonmilitary factories in Iran.
- On Strait of Hormuz: IRGC’s navy commander, Alireza Tangsiri, said Iran has not yet closed the strait, and the vital waterway is “only being controlled”.
- Damage in Iran: Tehran’s governor reported that at least 10,000 residential homes were “damaged or completely destroyed” because of US-Israeli attacks. More than 1,400 people have been killed since Israel and US launched the war on February 28. Earlier, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claimed at least 15,000 “enemy targets” have been struck – more than 1,000 a day – since the war began.
- Iran confirmed that its senior military figure, Brigadier-General Abdullah Jalali Nasab, was killed in an Israeli attack. That is now in addition to the killing of Abdolrahim Mousavi, chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces; Aziz Nasirzadeh, defence minister and deputy chief of staff of the armed forces; and Mohammad Pakpour, IRGC commander-in-chief.
In Gulf countries
- Saudi Arabia: The Ministry of Defence said four drones were intercepted in the Riyadh metropolitan area. At least two people were killed and 12 injured in the attacks since Iran started retaliatory attacks. Earlier, the ministry said six ballistic missiles launched towards the kingdom’s al-Kharj governorate were destroyed, in addition to two drones intercepted in the Eastern province.
- UAE: The IRGC said it launched 10 missiles and several drones against US forces at the UAE’s al-Dhafra airbase, according to a statement carried by Iranian news agencies. On Saturday, black smoke rose over the port of Fujairah, situated just outside the Strait of Hormuz, after debris from a drone interception fell, injuring a Jordanian citizen.
- Abu Dhabi accused Iran of “moral bankruptcy” following Iranian claims that US attacks on the strategic Kharg Island originated from the UAE.
- Bahrain: The Bahrain Ministry of Interior said sirens were activated and residents were urged to remain calm and head to the nearest safe location. It said the police arrested six people on charges of posting videos and spreading misinformation about Iranian attacks on the country. So far, at least two people have been killed and dozens wounded in Iranian strikes.
- Kuwait: Two missiles struck the perimeter of Ahmad al-Jaber airbase, wounding three soldiers, authorities in Kuwait reported. Drones struck facilities at Kuwait’s international airport, damaging part of its radar system, they said.
- Qatar: The Gulf state intercepted all four ballistic missiles and drones launched from Iran, said the Ministry of Defence on Saturday.
In the US
- President speaks: Trump told NBC News in a phone interview that Iran “wants to make a deal”, but he is not ready for one “because the terms aren’t good enough yet”. He also repeated that he is working with other countries on a plan to secure passage through the Strait of Hormuz.
- On new supreme leader: He questioned whether Mojtaba Khamenei is “even alive” after Hegseth’s earlier claim that he was “likely disfigured”. Trump added that the US attacks on Iran’s strategic Kharg Island “totally demolished” most of the island, but that “we may hit it a few more times just for fun”.
- On Strait of Hormuz: He called on allies and countries that depend on Gulf oil, including China, to send warships to the strait to escort ships. However, no country has confirmed this. Japan responded, saying “the bar would be too high” for such action.
- The Trump administration also warned news outlets could have their broadcasting licences revoked over critical reporting on the war against Iran while accusing the media of “distortions”.
- On negotiations: While he claimed that Iran has reached out with a peace plan, the Reuters news agency reported that the Trump administration has rebuffed efforts by Middle East allies to start diplomatic negotiations aimed at ending the war. Iran, for its part, has rejected the possibility of any ceasefire until US and Israeli strikes end.
- Support for war in the US: The latest Quinnipiac University poll suggests that 53 percent of US voters are against the attacks, while nearly three-quarters of those surveyed say they do not support deploying US ground forces to Iran.
In Israel
- Israel’s Ministry of Health said 108 injured people were taken to hospitals as a result of the conflict with Iran in the past 24 hours, according to The Times of Israel newspaper.
- Air raid sirens blared across Israel through the night and into the morning amid missile and rocket fire from Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon, as falling debris caused a fire in the city of Holon.
- Fragments from Iranian missiles fell in areas near Tel Aviv in central Israel after air defence systems intercepted incoming projectiles.
- Israel informed the US this week that it is running critically low on ballistic missile interceptors as the conflict with Iran rages, the US news website Semafor reported.
In Lebanon
- Hezbollah battles to stop advances by the Israeli military in southern Lebanese towns as Israeli air raids and artillery fire struck multiple towns.
- The group said it targeted Israeli soldiers at al-Khazan hill in the border town of Odaisseh and near Fatima Gate in Kfar Kila in southern Lebanon, and shelled an Israeli artillery position in the settlement of Dishon with missiles.
- Lebanon’s emergency services said Israeli attacks on two towns in the country’s south killed at least five people, including a child, and wounded seven.
- Another Israeli air attack killed an entire family in southern Lebanon’s Qantara, including two children. Israeli attacks have killed 826 people and displaced more than 800,000 in the country since the US-Israeli assault on Iran began on February 28.
- The head of the World Health Organization said a total of 14 health workers were killed in attacks in southern Lebanon over the past 24 hours.
Iraq and Jordan
- The US Embassy in Baghdad said on Saturday that all US citizens “should leave Iraq now”. “US citizens choosing to remain in Iraq are strongly encouraged to reconsider in light of the significant threat posed by Iran-aligned terrorist militia groups,” it added.
- Iraq’s Ministry of Justice says the surrounding areas of Baghdad’s international prison and the central airport prison have been subjected to repeated attacks in recent days.
- A drone strike hit the Lanaz oil refinery on the outskirts of Erbil, triggering a fire. Iraqi authorities said they have suspended activities to assess the damage.
- The Jordanian military said it intercepted 79 of the 85 missiles and drones launched by Iran targeting “vital sites” in the kingdom during the second week of the Middle East war. At least 14 people were wounded in total in Jordan from Iranian strikes.
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