Families displaced by Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon have found shelter at the Saints Peter and Paul Monastery in the village of Qattine. Clergy there opened their doors to those fleeing the violence, offering food, shelter and a place to pray as thousands across the south remain unable to return home.
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Team USA was able to narrowly defeat the Dominican Republic, 2-1, on Sunday night to advance to the World Baseball Classic (WBC) final.
But the final at-bat came under fire as U.S. closer Mason Miller got Dominican Republic shortstop Geraldo Perdomo to strike out looking. Juan Soto also struck out looking on a similar pitch from David Bednar in the eighth inning. The Soto strikeout ended the Dominican Republic’s chances of tying the game, while Perdomo’s strikeout ended the game.
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Dominican Republic Geraldo Perdomo reacts after striking out at the end of the ninth inning of a World Baseball Classic semifinal game against the United States, Sunday, March 15, 2026, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
The call sparked a debate on social media.
FOX Sports broadcasters Alex Rodriguez, David Ortiz and Derek Jeter also weighed in.
“A ball that’s about four inches down, too close take. But this is Cory Blaser’s hot zone and it’s down. Sure enough, he lived (up) to his scouting report,” Rodriguez said. “You just hate to end a game this big, with these types of consequences on a pitch that’s not a strike.”
Dominican Republic Juan Soto strikes out during the eighth inning of a World Baseball Classic semifinal game against the United States, Sunday, March 15, 2026, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
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Ortiz said if the umpire was calling 100 mph pitches up in the zone strikes, then the pitch from Miller low in the zone couldn’t have been a strike.
“I’m pretty sure they’re going to have the challenge system in place for the next WBC,” Jeter said. “You hate to end a game that way. But you give credit to the U.S. They not only pitched well, they hit two home runs. They played great defense – whether it was Aaron (Judge) with the throw to third base, Bobhy Witt with the plays that he made – saved a run early on by knocking a ball down as well. Great pitching, great defense, U.S. deserves to go to the final.”
United States pitcher Mason Miller and catcher Will Smith celebrate at the end of the ninth inning during a World Baseball Classic semifinal game against the Dominican Republic, Sunday, March 15, 2026, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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New Delhi. Former Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar has strongly criticized the Sunrisers franchise and its owner Kavya Maran over their decision to buy Pakistani spinner Abrar Ahmed in The Hundred 2026 auction. In fact, in the auction held on March 12, Sunrisers left Trent Rockets behind and added Abrar Ahmed for around Rs 2.34 crore. After this, many Indian fans expressed their displeasure on social media. It is alleged that last year Abrar Ahmed had made fun of the Indian Armed Forces through a social media post, due to which this controversy increased further. However, despite this criticism, the franchise stuck to its decision. The team’s head coach Daniel Vettori also said that Abrar was one of his favorite spin options and he was not told not to pick any Pakistani player.
Gavaskar, using very strong words in his column, said that a part of the fees paid to Pakistani players goes to the Pakistan government in the form of tax, which can later be used to buy weapons. According to him, this may indirectly contribute to the death of Indian soldiers and civilians.
“Responsibility for the deaths of Indians due to this decision”
Gavaskar, using very strong words in his column, said that a part of the fees paid to Pakistani players goes to the Pakistan government in the form of tax, which can later be used to buy weapons. According to him, this may indirectly contribute to the death of Indian soldiers and civilians. Gavaskar wrote that since the Mumbai attacks of November 2008, Indian franchise owners have maintained distance from including Pakistani players in the IPL. He believes that this understanding gradually emerged that the fees paid to Pakistani players ultimately go to the government of their country, which can be spent on weapons.
The controversy that has arisen over the purchase of a Pakistani player by an Indian owner in The Hundred is absolutely natural. IPL franchise owners have ignored Pakistani players since the 2008 Mumbai attacks. There is now an understanding that the tax on fees paid to players ultimately goes to the government, which can buy weapons, and may indirectly contribute to the deaths of Indian soldiers and civilians.
“Is the trophy more important than the lives of Indians?”
Gavaskar also said that New Zealand-based coach Daniel Vettori may not fully understand the complex India-Pakistan relationship, but franchise owner Kavya Maran should have kept this sensitivity in mind. He raised the question whether winning a tournament which is played by very few countries in the world is more important than the safety of Indian citizens. Whether the payment is from India or from a foreign subsidiary, if the owner is an Indian, the money may end up going in a direction that is detrimental to Indians. Daniel Vettori may not understand this complex situation, but the owner should have and should have stopped the purchase. Is winning a tournament in a format which other countries do not even play, more important than the lives of Indians?”
There may be protest in IPL
Gavaskar believes that the effect of this decision can be seen in IPL 2026 also. He expressed apprehension that when Sunrisers Hyderabad takes the field, the reaction of the audience could be very sharp. He said that protests can take place during the team’s matches and spectators can express their dissatisfaction by reaching the stadium in small numbers. He also said that like the booing against Hardik Pandya last year, Kavya Maran may also have to face opposition from the audience. However, Gavaskar also said that there is still time and if the franchise reconsiders this decision then perhaps the situation can be resolved.
Finally, Gavaskar said that it would not be surprising if Indian fans protest against this decision wherever the team plays. Even if there are excellent batsmen in the team, spectators may avoid coming to the stadium. There is still time to correct this mistake and hopefully a wise decision will be taken.
Keir Starmer is speaking at his press conference.
The war is entering its third week, he says.
He says he has been clear in his objectives.
First, we will protect our people in the region.
Second, while taking the necessary action to defend ourselves and our allies, we will not be drawn into the wider war.
And third, we will keep working towards a swift resolution that brings security and stability back to the region and stops the Iranian threat to its neighbours.
Key events
Starmer says the second measure is the extension of the cut in fuel duty until September.
And he says he has been clear to energy companies that they should not profit from price rises caused by the war.
Starmer says he wants to set out five steps the government is taking to help people with the cost of living, in response to the war.
First, we have capped energy bills until the end of June, saving the average household £117. And that’s in addition to the warm homes discount of £150 for the most vulnerable in society.
No matter what happens now in energy markets, in three weeks time your energy bills will be cut and then capped for the next three months.
And he says the government is “giving a legal direction to the energy companies to ensure that every penny of the savings that we delivered through last year’s budget is passed directly onto customers to keep bills as low as possible”.
Starmer says 92,000 Britons in the region have returned to the UK on commercial and government chartered flights.
And he says the armed forces are working “24/7 to protect British lives and British interests and support our Gulf partners”.
He says he is working on a diplomatic response. He met Mark Carney this morning and he will meet President Zelenskyy soon, he says, because there is an impact on Ukraine.
Starmer says he wants the war to end “as quickly as possible because the longer it goes on, the more dangerous the situation becomes and the worse it is for the cost of living back here at home”.
He says the impact on the cost of living has been a priority for him.
Now, in recent days, I’ve visited community centres in England and Northern Ireland, and I know people are really worried about what this means for them.
And look, I grew up working class in the 1970s. I remember how it feels when you’re struggling to make ends meet. It’s a knot in your stomach. Every time the bills come through the door, and that’s at the forefront of my mind in meeting this crisis.
Keir Starmer is speaking at his press conference.
The war is entering its third week, he says.
He says he has been clear in his objectives.
First, we will protect our people in the region.
Second, while taking the necessary action to defend ourselves and our allies, we will not be drawn into the wider war.
And third, we will keep working towards a swift resolution that brings security and stability back to the region and stops the Iranian threat to its neighbours.
According to extracts from his statement released in advance, Keir Starmer will use his press conference this morning to repeat his claim that Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage were wrong to suggest they would unconditionally back Donald Trump when the US-Israeli war against Iran started more than two weeks ago.
Starmer will say:
Moments like this also tell you about leadership … Now, there are others who would have made a different decision two weeks ago.
They would have rushed the UK headlong into this war without the full picture of what they were sending our forces into and without a plan to get us out.
That’s not leading, it’s following.
My leadership is about standing firm for the British interest. No matter the pressure.
And I believe time will show that we have the right approach. Right on the economy and the cost of living. Right on defence and energy.
And right on this war, in the best interests of the British people.
The Conservative party and Reform UK have revised their stance on the war over the past fortnight. Farage now says he would not support the US militarily, and Badenoch claims her party never fully supported the war in the first place.
On the Monday after the war started, in response to reports that Donald Trump was disappointed not to have support from Britain, Priti Patel, the shadow foreign secretary, issued a statement saying:
It is no surprise that our closest and most important ally is so disappointed. The Labour government’s response to the crisis in Iran has been shameful.
We should have been supporting our allies, not making it harder for them. Even now Starmer is still trying to sit on the fence, which is a complete failure of leadership.
These are from Patrick Wintour, the Guardian’s diplomatic editor, on Keir Starmer’s options as he decides how to respond to Donald Trump. (See 8.57am.)
Trump the coalition builder.
Saturday March 7
Trump to Starmer The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East,” Trump wrote on his social media platform, adding: “That’s OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don’t need them any longer – But we will remember. We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!”
Saturday March 14
Trump “Hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others, that are affected by this artificial constraint will send ships to the area so that the Hormuz Strait will no longer be a threat by a nation that has been totally decapitated.”
Sunday March 15 Trump
It will be very bad for the future of NATO if the seven countries say no and the US will remember them.
Monday March 16
Starmer to Trump.
Option 1 This is an illegal war that you started in the middle of talks from which you excluded Europe. You launched the war without consulting your allies or Congress and without considering the military consequences. So the answer is no. Sort out the mess of your own making.
Option 2 Vital UK interests are at play and freedom of navigation requires the Strait is reopened. “Help is on its way, Mr President”.
Option 3 I am consulting allies and lawyers.
Worth recalling UK has recently taken military action to defend freedom of navigation, but in the Red Sea by attacking Houthi drone manufacturing sites in Yemen. It followed a UN SC resolution in Jan 2024 condemning Houthi attacks, but not authorising use of force.
As members of Operation Prosperity Guardian, the UK took part in at least six bombing raids in 2024 and 2025 jointly with US.
PM Sunak in January 2024 told MPs “this action was taken in self-defence. It was limited, not escalatory. It was a necessary and proportionate response to a direct threat to UK vessels, and therefore to the UK itself.”
He added: “We should also recognise the risks of inaction. It would weaken international security and the rule of law, further damage freedom of navigation and the global economy, and send a dangerous message that British vessels and British interests are fair game”.
Starmer as opposition leader said “The Houthi attacks are unacceptable and illegal and, if left unaddressed, could lead to a devastating rise in the cost of essential food in some of the poorest countries….The UK strikes were limited and targeted, and did everything possible to protect civilian lives. That is a proportionate response”.
Parallel far from exact eg Iran not yet conducting full scale attacks on shipping, Biden built a coalition and Houthis not a recognised state.
Keir Starmer and Mark Carney presumably spoke about their dealings with Donald Trump at their meeting this morning. Both of them seem to have had quite difficult conversations with the US president recently. Here is the terse Canadian readout from Carney’s call with Trump last weekend. And here is the statement from a No 10 spokesperson last night after Starmer spoke to the president.
The prime minister spoke to the president of the United States Donald Trump this evening.
The leaders discussed the ongoing situation in the Middle East and the importance of reopening the strait of Hormuz to end the disruption to global shipping, which is driving up costs worldwide.
The prime minister also expressed his condolences for the American service personnel who have lost their lives during the conflict.
They agreed to keep in touch.
This implies that, although there was agreement on reopening the strait of Hormuz, there was no agreement on how that should be achieved.
This is from the FT’s Edward Luce on Bluesky on his Trump scoop. (See 9.22am.)
I called Trump and he picked up..
Has Nato and the UK in his sights again
Keir Starmer has been meeting Mark Carney, his Canadian counterpart, in Downing Street this morning.
Here is Peter Walker’s story on what Pat McFadden has been saying this morning in response to Donald Trump’s implict threat to withdraw support for Nato if countries like the UK don’t help the US in the Gulf.
Here are some more quotes from Donald Trump’s interview with Edward Luce from the Financial Times. Trump implicitly threatened to withdraw support for Nato if countries like the UK did not supply warships to protect oil tankers going through the strait of Hormuz from attacks by the Iranians. (See 8.57am.) But he made other points too.
We have a thing called Nato. We’ve been very sweet. We didn’t have to help them with Ukraine. Ukraine is thousands of miles away from us . . . But we helped them. Now we’ll see if they help us.
Because I’ve long said that we’ll be there for them but they won’t be there for us. And I’m not sure that they’d be there.
Trump has often made this argument before, including when he was at Davos in January. In response to what he said then, Mark Rutte, Nato’s secretary general, pointed out that Nato’s mutual defence clause, article 5, has only been triggered once, after 9/11, and that led to other Nato countries helping the US in Afghansitan.
We’re hitting them very hard. They’ve got nothing left but to make a little trouble in the strait but these people are beneficiaries and they ought to help us police it. We’ll help them. But they should also be there. You sort of need a lot of people to watch over a few.
Good morning. Keir Starmer is holding a press conference in Downing Street this morning. As Kiran Stacey reports, the PM’s main intention will be to announce support for people most hit by rising energy prices, particularly householders reliant on heating oil. The measures are expected to be worth tens of millions of pounds.
But, inevitably, most of the focus likely to be on how Starmer responds to the latest provocations from Donald Trump.
To recap: last weekend Trump was dismissing the UK’s stance saying that the US did not need Britain’s support in the Gulf anyway because “we don’t need people that join wars after we’ve already won”. This weekend he was asking the UK, and other countries, to send warships to help keep the strait of Hormuz open. The government has indicated that it won’t deploy warships, but it may send minesweeping drones. Here are some of today’s headlines.
The full Guardian story is here.
After briefly sounding solicitous, Trump is now back in threat mode. In a brief interview with the Financial Times he implied that, if countries like the UK did not deploy warships to protect oil tankers going through the strait of Hormuz, he might pull the plug on Nato. He said:
It’s only appropriate that people who are the beneficiaries of the Strait will help to make sure that nothing bad happens there …
If there’s no response or if it’s a negative response I think it will be very bad for the future of Nato.
We will hear what Starmer has to say about this later, but we have already had a response from Pat McFadden, the work and pensions secretary, who has been on the morning interview round. Speaking on Sky News, McFadden downplayed the threat, arguing that the US-UK alliance was strong enough to “outlast” any problems caused by Trump’s rhetoric. Asked to comment on the quote, he said:
That’s the president right there. The quote that you’ve just given has summed him up.
It’s a very transactional presidency and our job is to navigate this, to always remember that the friendship between the United States and the United Kingdom runs very deep.
It’s a good relationship. It’s enduring and I think it will outlast all the personalities involved.
We will cover the press conference in detail, but we won’t just be focusing on Iran today; there is other politics around too. Here is the agenda for the day.
Morning: Keir Starmer meets Mark Carney, the Canadian PM, in Downing Street.
10.30am: Starmer holds his press conference.
11am: Richard Tice, Reform UK’s deputy leader, holds a press conference where he will give what the party says will be “a significant update on Doge and Reform in local government”.
11.30am: Pat McFadden, the work and pensions secretary, gives a speech where he will announce plans for a youth jobs grant and an apprenticeships incentive.
Morning: Kemi Badenoch is on a visit in London.
12.30pm: Malcolm Offord, Reform UK’s leader in Scotland, takes part in a Q&A at the Institute for Government.
1.30pm: Jeremy Corbyn, Your Party’s parliamentary leader, presents the findings of his Gaza Tribunal report. As Patrick Wintour reports, it will say the government has been complicit in crimes committed by Israel.
2.30pm: John Healey, the defence secretary, takes questions in the Commons.
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Ukrainian entities have emerged as the target of a new campaign likely orchestrated by threat actors linked to Russia, according to a report from S2 Grupo’s LAB52 threat intelligence team.
The campaign, observed in February 2026, has been assessed to share overlaps with a prior campaign mounted by Laundry Bear (aka UAC-0190 or Void Blizzard) aimed at Ukrainian defense forces with a malware family known as PLUGGYAPE.
The attack activity “employs various judicial and charity themed lures to deploy a JavaScript‑based backdoor that runs through the Edge browser,” the cybersecurity company said. Codenamed DRILLAPP, the malware is capable of uploading and downloading files, leveraging the microphone, and capturing images through the webcam by taking advantage of the web browser’s features.
Two different versions of the campaign have been identified, with the first iteration detected in early February by making use of a Windows shortcut (LNK) file to create an HTML Application (HTA) in the temporary folder, which then loads a remote remote script hosted on Pastefy, a legitimate paste service.
To establish persistence, the LNK files are copied to the Windows Startup folder so that they are automatically launched following a system reboot. The attack chain then displays a URL containing lures related to installing Starlink or a Ukrainian charity named Come Back Alive Foundation.
The HTML file is eventually executed via the Microsoft Edge browser in headless mode, which then loads the remote obfuscated script hosted on Pastefy.
The browser is executed with additional parameters like –no-sandbox, –disable-web-security, –allow-file-access-from-files, –use-fake-ui-for-media-stream, –auto-select-screen-capture-source=true, and –disable-user-media-security, granting it access to the local file system, as well as camera, microphone, and screen capture without requiring any user interaction.
The artifact essentially functions as a lightweight backdoor to facilitate file system access and capture audio from the microphone, video from the camera, and images of the device’s screen all through the browser. It also generates a device fingerprint using a technique called canvas fingerprinting when run for the first time and uses Pastefy as a dead drop resolver to fetch a WebSocket URL used for command‑and‑control (C2) communications.
The malware transmits the device fingerprint data along with the victim’s country, which is determined from the machine’s time zone. It specifically checks if the time zones correspond to the U.K., Russia, Germany, France, China, Japan, the U.S., Brazil, India, Ukraine, Canada, Australia, Italy, Spain, and Poland. If that’s not the case, it defaults to the U.S.
The second version of the campaign, spotted in late February 2026, eschews LNK files for Windows Control Panel modules, while keeping the infection sequence largely intact. Another notable change involves the backdoor itself, which has now been upgraded to allow recursive file enumeration, batch file uploads, and arbitrary file download.
“For security reasons, JavaScript does not allow the remote downloading of files,” LAB52 said. “This is why the attackers use the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP), an internal protocol of Chromium‑based browsers that can only be used when the –remote-debugging-port parameter is enabled.”
It’s believed that the backdoor is still in the initial stages of development. An early variant of the malware detected in the wild on January 28, 2026, has been observed just communicating with the domain “gnome[.]com” instead of downloading the primary payload from Pastefy.
“One of the most notable aspects is the use of the browser to deploy a backdoor, which suggests that the attackers are exploring new ways to evade detection,” the Spanish security vendor said.
“The browser is advantageous for this type of activity because it is a common and generally non‑suspicious process, it offers extended capabilities accessible through debugging parameters that enable unsafe actions such as downloading remote files, and it provides legitimate access to sensitive resources such as the microphone, camera, or screen recording without triggering immediate alerts.”
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California teachers are warning about how the profession has changed over the past three decades, citing lack of support for teachers to address behavior issues and an overall decline in standards.
A survey from EdWeek’s 2026 installment of its State of Teaching Report, found 40% of teachers in California plan to retire or quit in the next 10 years.
Fox News Digital spoke with six California teachers, many of whom have 30 years of teaching experience or on the cusp of retirement.
“I would like to see a shift in attitude toward teachers as an authority. Teachers have, since we are the professionals, the right to make decisions, education decisions, curriculum decisions, rules, and consequences,” Tera Fowler told Fox News Digital.
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California teachers told Fox News Digital that the profession has changed over the past three decades, citing lack of support for teachers to address behavior issues and overall decline in standards. (iStock)
Fowler, 63, plans to retire soon after teaching for over 30 years. Since she started her teaching career, she noticed students are being “coddled” more.
“The biggest change is the lack of discipline and consequences for the children and the increasing expectation of entitlement of the parents—that they are expecting more and more,” she said.
In California, the share of teachers who say they plan to retire in the next 10 years is between 40% and 49% with an estimate of 45%, Holly Kurtz, director of the Education Week Research Center, previously told Fox News Digital.
Kurtz said that California teachers are on average older than teachers in many other states, according to the most recent federal data. The average age of a California teacher is 45.5, while the average teacher age in the U.S. is 42.9. Therefore, age is likely the major reason why California teachers are more likely to say they plan to retire in the next decade than teachers in other states, according to Kurtz.
“Age is probably the number one thing. You get to about my point in the career … it doesn’t make sense to do anything else, so you stick with it until you’re too old to do something else, and then you retire,” California teacher Doug Kosak told Fox News Digital.
Kosak, 56, taught for 24 years in public school at Temecula Valley Unified School District and Mesa Unified School District. The 20-plus-year teaching veteran added that “progressive discipline” had emerged over the years, tying up his workdays.
“I can attribute this to the attitudes, the lack of discipline in the schools, inability to hold kids accountable. There are so many other factors that prevent me from doing my job effectively,” he said.
Nick Pardue, who teaches economics to seniors, also cited the lack of discipline and support for teachers to enforce standards. Responding to EdWeek’s survey results, he said the “lack of support from administrative staff and behavior issues” could be another reason driving teachers to retire.
After teaching for over 30 years, the 54-year-old echoed what others have said that the profession has changed.
“This positive behavior support where they really didn’t want any negative punishments for students who were acting out or misbehaving. So they were looking for positive interventions with the idea that students—every once in a while—they lose themselves,” Pardue said.
Nick Pardue, who teaches economics to seniors at Paris Union High School District, also cited the lack of discipline and support for teachers to enforce standards. (iStock)
According to the EdWeek report, 36% of teachers nationwide, say they plan to retire in the next ten years. Kurtz explained that there is evidence that indicates that teacher morale has been declining across the country and is at, by some measures, “the lowest point in recent memory.”
Pardue, an Army veteran, believes teachers are encouraged to pass kids, regardless of what their skill levels are.
“They also like having a dashboard for certain kids and ethnicities. That became a huge priority. So there’s a lot of politics that got infused into teaching that I think created a lot of problems,” he said.
Steve Campos, who has been teaching for over 30 years, said student behavior has gotten worse.
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“Times have changed,” Campos, 54, told Fox News Digital. “The lack of discipline sometimes—just student behavior. It’s not like it used to be. There’s been a big change and a big difference in what we’re asked to do—what we are dealing with. Yeah, it’s just kind of spiraling quickly.”
Jennifer Stoeber, who is getting ready to retire soon after teaching for 30 years, told Fox News Digital that the curriculum has become more “inclusive” over the years.
“Our curriculum has changed and become more inclusive, in some ways good—putting more emphasis on areas instead of teaching the curriculum as it used to be,” Stoeber said. “In our social studies books, we focus more on inclusive issues on other cultures and not so much on our history itself.”
In California, the share of teachers who say they plan to retire in the next 10 years is between 40% and 49% with an estimate of 45%, Holly Kurtz, director of the Education Week Research Center, told Fox News Digital.
Gevin Harrison, who started teaching 14 years ago after a 24 year in the Air Force, discussed how teachers would reinforce values that were being taught at home.
“I consider myself a newbie. So I’m not really sure if I would be able to track any change,” Harrison said. “If I was going to mark the change, I would probably compare the years that I’ve been teaching with the years that I was in high school.”
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“Teachers used to reinforce the values that you would learn at home and chances are, if you got in trouble at school, your parents were going to be ticked because they were all on the same sheet of music,” he added.
The California Department of Education did not respond to Fox News Digital‘s request for comment.
A shocking video is going viral on social media. In this, something was seen beating like a heart on top of a rock. The video is said to be from China. Looking at it, it seems as if the rock has come alive and the heart inside it is beating. But after the video was shared, many people told its truth in the comments. What was described as the heart of the rock was actually a beehive, which was shaking. Such black hives are found in abundance in the forests of China.
The Israeli army says its forces are striking key sites in southern Lebanon, as fierce clashes with Hezbollah continue near the town of Khiam.
Published On 16 Mar 2026
The Israeli military says its troops have begun ground operations in southern Lebanon as fighting against Hezbollah intensifies around the strategic southern town of Khiam.
At least three air strikes struck the city of Khiam, Al Jazeera Arabic reported on Monday.
Khiam, a stronghold of Hezbollah, is strategically located and is seen as a gateway to southern Lebanon. The latest war started after Hezbollah fired rockets in response to the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Hezbollah had not attacked Israel since the 2024 ceasefire despite repeated Israeli violations of the United States-brokered deal.
On Monday morning, two Israeli air raids targeted the town of Yater, Al Jazeera Arabic reported. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
Israel also launched raids on Burj Qalawiya, Sultaniya and Chaqra, also in southern Lebanon, according to Al Jazeera Arabic. Two raids were also conducted on the towns of Qantara and as-Sawana.
The Israeli army, in a post on X, said on Monday that its troops in recent days were “focused on ground operations on key targets in southern Lebanon to expand the forward defence area”.
“This operation is part of the effort to establish the forward defence, which includes destroying terrorist infrastructure and eliminating terrorists,” it added.
Khiam sits on high ground just a few kilometres from the Israeli border and the Litani River, giving it a commanding view over northern Israel and nearby Lebanese plains.
Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr said a “major battle was under way” in and around Khiam. “The elevation of Khiam for both sides gives them a strategic advantage,” she said.
Moreover, Khodr noted the town lies on a “long and important junction … a road that leads to the eastern and western sectors of southern Lebanon”.
“One of the roads leads to the Bekaa Valley too in eastern Lebanon, another area where Hezbollah has influence,” she said.
“What Israel has been trying to do is really cut the supply lines and the difficult capabilities of Hezbollah, so it’s unable to bring in more weapons and fighters to areas south of the Litani River.”
More than 800,000 people, including women and children, have been forced to flee from their homes as the Israeli army issued evacuation orders for many neighbourhoods in southern Lebanon, as well as the capital, Beirut.
Israeli attacks in Lebanon have so far killed at least 850 people, among them 107 children and 66 women.
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A new Fox Nation special goes into the harrowing case of Chris Watts’ plot to murder his pregnant wife and their two young daughters.
The new special will be available to watch on Fox One starting on March 16.
Watts was sentenced in November 2018 to life without parole for the murders of his wife, Shanann Watts, 34, and their daughters, Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3.
Watts, then 33, pleaded guilty to all charges against him in exchange for prosecutors not pursuing the death penalty, the Weld County District Attorney’s office said.
Chris and Shanann Watts with their daughters. (Facebook)
Immediately after the crime, in August 2018, Watts told responding officers from the Frederick Police Department in Colorado that his wife and two young daughters had up and “vanished.”
“My kids are my life,” he told KMGH. “I mean, those smiles light up my life. When I came home and then walked in the house, nothing. Vanished. Nothing was here.”
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Chris Watts was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his pregnant wife and daughters. (RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post via Getty Images)
Within days of the disappearance, Chris Watts was arrested and the bodies of his pregnant wife and children were found.
A break in the case came after a neighbor provided home security video showing Chris backing up his truck into the driveway early in the morning the day Shanann and the children disappeared. The video did not show Shanann or the children leaving.
Along with the video, authorities also tracked Watts’ digital footprint, including his cell phone data and GPS tracking data.
According to court documents, Shanann Watts’ body was found in a shallow grave near this oil tank on August 21, 2018, near Roggen, Colorado. Both of her daughter’s bodies, 4-year-old Bella and 3-year-old Celeste, were submerged for days in the same oil tanks in rural eastern Colorado, prosecutors said. (RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post via Getty Images)
After failing a polygraph on August 15, 2018, he confessed during an interview. He led investigators to an oil and gas site operated by Anadarko Petroleum near Roggen, Colorado, where the bodies were recovered.
Shanann Watts, who was approximately 15 weeks pregnant at the time, was found in a shallow grave.
Bella and Celeste were found, authorities said, inside separate crude oil storage tanks at the same site. Their bodies were recovered after the tanks were drained.
The body of Shanann Watts, 34, was found in a shallow grave near an oil tank on property owned by the oil and gas company where her husband had worked. (Colorado Bureau of Investigation)
Watts confessed that he strangled Shanann in their bed after he told her their marriage was over, and she said he would never see their children again. Watts said his wife correctly suspected that he was having an affair, but he did not tell her about his ongoing relationship with a co-worker before killing Shanann.
Authorities have speculated that Watts wanted a chance to start over with the woman. Watts told investigators that the woman “never asked him to get rid of his family” but their relationship may have “contributed” to his actions.
After he strangled Shanann, Watts said Bella came into their bedroom clutching a blanket and asked what was wrong with her mother. Watts claimed his wife wasn’t feeling well. Their daughter continued watching as Watts wrapped the body in a bedsheet and began crying when he pulled it down the stairs of their home, he said.
Watts said he put her body on the floor of his truck’s back seat. When he went inside, Celeste was also awake.
According to Watts, he put the girls into the backseat of the truck, where they occasionally napped on each other’s laps as he drove.
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A photograph of Shanann Watts and her daughters, Bella, 4, left, and Celeste, 3, is shown at a makeshift memorial in Frederick, Colorado. (AP Photo)
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Watts claimed he had no plan for his daughters but drove to an oil work site about 40 miles east of the family’s home. He worked there as an operator for an oil and gas producer. He told police he pulled Shanann’s body from the truck as the girls asked, “What are you doing to mommy?”
Watts confessed he went back to the truck and used Celeste’s blanket to smother her as Bella watched from a seat beside her sister. He then put Celeste’s body inside an oil tank before returning to the truck and smothering Bella using the same blanket. Her last words were, “Daddy, no!” he told police, adding that Bella struggled under the blanket. He said he put her body inside another oil tank and buried Shanann’s body nearby.
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Watts insisted that he did not plan to kill his wife or children.
The Associated Press and Fox News’ Stephanie Nolasco contributed to this report.
