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#BREAKING 🇦🇪 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 ❌ 🇮🇷 — Yediot Ahronot Israeli news outlet claims that the attack on the water desalination plant in Iran was launched by the UAE which would be the first strike the UAE has launched against Iran.
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At a congressional briefing Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was asked whether Iran's enriched uranium would be secured. "People are going to have to go and get it," he said, without specifying who.
An Israeli defense official said Trump and his team are seriously considering sending special operations units into Iran for specific missions.
A U.S. official said the administration has discussed two options: removing the material from Iran entirely, or bringing in nuclear experts to dilute it on-site.
The mission would likely involve special operators alongside scientists, possibly from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
As for the actual operation, the most likely scenario is, they'll send a force, claim there was "combat" and were unable to enter the underground facilities so they blew them up, withdraw and then sign a ceasefire claiming that the enriched uranium is 300 meters underground and irrecoverable.
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U.S. weighs sending special forces to seize Iran's nuclear stockpile
archived 8 Mar 2026 09:59:33 UTC
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-U.S. agencies constantly monitor site activity.
-Trump may consider raid, but not now.
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USMC Lance Corporal Kevin Melendez from Grapevine, Texas, died in a hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia sometime between Feb 28th to March 3rd.
His body arrived back home on March 4th and his death was announced to the public on March 6th by local news.
Unclear where he was injured as the USMC did not provide any details about the circumstances of his injuries.
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🇬🇧🇨🇾🇱🇧 — The Cypriot Foreign Ministry announced that the drone attacks targeting British bases in Cyprus originated from Lebanon.
"It has become necessary to focus on the Lebanese front, and we cannot rule out any possibility," the ministry added.
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"It has become necessary to focus on the Lebanese front, and we cannot rule out any possibility," the ministry added.
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#NEWS | 🇮🇷 — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi:
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We have the capability to produce missiles, but we have intentionally limited ourselves to below 2,000 kilometers of range because we don’t want to be felt as a threat by anybody else in the world.
We have not started any plan to increase the range of our missiles beyond what it is right now.
So there is no evidence, no intelligence, nothing to indicate that Iran is developing long-range missiles, let alone missiles that could reach the United States.
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🇫🇷🇬🇷🇨🇾⚡️- Emmanuel Macron will travel to Cyprus this Monday to meet his Cypriot counterpart alongside Greece's Prime Minister to discuss the island's security.
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🚨🇳🇵 Who is Balen Shah: The first Gen-Z leader of Nepal
Balen Shah, currently serving as the mayor of Nepalese capital, Kathmandu has recorded landslide victory against the sitting Prime minister of Nepal, KP Sharma Oli.
▪️Shah's party Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) is heading for major victory, winning 102 direct seats out of 165 & leading in 22 other seats.
▪️Final counts confirm Shah secured 68,348 votes, more than triple the tally of Oli, who finished with 18,734, in his home constituency.
▪️Coming from a middle-class background, Balen balanced academics with creative pursuits and became known in Nepal’s underground music scene as a rapper who often addressed social inequality, corruption, and youth frustrations through his lyrics.
🔥 Political journey and prominence
▪️ Balen Shah entered politics as an independent candidate in the 2022 mayoral election of Kathmandu, challenging candidates from established political parties that had dominated Nepal for decades.
▪️Running on a platform of transparency and urban reform, he appealed to citizens frustrated with traditional party politics.
▪️His victory shocked the political establishment, as he defeated candidates backed by major parties such as the Nepali Congress and the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist), signaling a strong public demand for new leadership.
📈 Gen-Z support and rise to fame
▪️ Balen Shah’s rise coincided with growing frustration among Nepal’s youth over corruption, unemployment, and the dominance of the same political elites for decades.
▪️He was in the spotlight after the protests and was an undeclared leader of the youngsters who led the September protests.
▪️He also helped form the interim government of former Chief Justice Sushila Karki to oversee the vote.
▪️Through social media campaigns, youth activism, and grassroots mobilization, many young Nepalis rallied behind him as a symbol of change and accountability.
▪️His unconventional background as an engineer and rapper made him relatable to younger generations, transforming his campaign into a broader movement against political stagnation and helping propel him to national prominence.
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Balen Shah, currently serving as the mayor of Nepalese capital, Kathmandu has recorded landslide victory against the sitting Prime minister of Nepal, KP Sharma Oli.
▪️Shah's party Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) is heading for major victory, winning 102 direct seats out of 165 & leading in 22 other seats.
▪️Final counts confirm Shah secured 68,348 votes, more than triple the tally of Oli, who finished with 18,734, in his home constituency.
▪️Coming from a middle-class background, Balen balanced academics with creative pursuits and became known in Nepal’s underground music scene as a rapper who often addressed social inequality, corruption, and youth frustrations through his lyrics.
▪️ Balen Shah entered politics as an independent candidate in the 2022 mayoral election of Kathmandu, challenging candidates from established political parties that had dominated Nepal for decades.
▪️Running on a platform of transparency and urban reform, he appealed to citizens frustrated with traditional party politics.
▪️His victory shocked the political establishment, as he defeated candidates backed by major parties such as the Nepali Congress and the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist), signaling a strong public demand for new leadership.
▪️ Balen Shah’s rise coincided with growing frustration among Nepal’s youth over corruption, unemployment, and the dominance of the same political elites for decades.
▪️He was in the spotlight after the protests and was an undeclared leader of the youngsters who led the September protests.
▪️He also helped form the interim government of former Chief Justice Sushila Karki to oversee the vote.
▪️Through social media campaigns, youth activism, and grassroots mobilization, many young Nepalis rallied behind him as a symbol of change and accountability.
▪️His unconventional background as an engineer and rapper made him relatable to younger generations, transforming his campaign into a broader movement against political stagnation and helping propel him to national prominence.
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Protesters chanted slogans such as: “We don’t want electricity, we want freedom.” In addition to complaints about the power outages, the protests reflect growing rejection of the regime amid a context of deterioration and the collapse of public services in Cuba.
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🇺🇦 - In Lviv, Ukraine, feminists started fight with the local police while protesting about changes in the law that they consider women rights-unfriendly.
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"The Russian-Polish security dilemma will likely serve as the impetus for fully unleashing and properly managing the capabilities of European NATO as a whole per the US’ National Defense Strategy.
RT drew attention in late January to a report by Izvestia about the West’s alleged plans to launch a “Defense, Security, and Resilience Bank” (DSRB) by 2027. Their article relies on in-depth research by the Atlantic Council, which came up with the idea of what was at first called the “NATO Bank”. The purpose is to provide “low-interest loans for defense modernization”, thus facilitating the goal of NATO members spending 5% of GDP on defense without significantly curtailing social and infrastructure spending.
Instead of slashing such programs to redirect funds to defense at the risk of helping populist-nationalists during the next elections and/or provoking unrest, they’d only spend a fraction of the principal each year servicing their DSRB loan instead of paying the cost upfront as if it was part of their annual expenditures. The Executive Summary of the Atlantic Council’s in-depth research hyperlinked to above also notes that “An additional critical function of the DSR bank would be to underwrite the risk for commercial banks”."
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The Planned "NATO Bank" Is Expected To Finance Europe's Impending Arms Race With Russia
Russia still has the edge in this impending arms race with Europe, but the EU’s potential federalization could narrow the gap if it ever happens...
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"What did Ancient Rome look like at its peak in 117 AD?
The map below from Visual Capitalist shows the maximum territorial extent ever achieved by the Roman Empire, just after their successful wars in the east, where Emperor Trajan captured Dacia (Romania), Armenia, Mesopotamia, Assyria, and the Parthian capital of Ctesiphon (in modern-day Iraq).
(...)
As Visual Capitalist explains further, although Trajan is rated as one of the best Roman Emperors by historians and was considered one of the strongest military leaders in Roman history, the reality is that the peak he achieved was very short-lived."
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Finland to allow nuclear weapons on its soil: government
"MOSCOW, March 6 (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday it would respond if Finland placed nuclear weapons on its territory, saying such a move would make the Nordic country more vulnerable.
The Kremlin reacted sharply after NATO member Finland said on Thursday it was planning to lift a longstanding ban on hosting such weapons, in a move that could open the door to placing them there during times of war.
"This is a statement that leads to an escalation of tensions on the European continent," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
"This statement adds to Finland's vulnerability, a vulnerability provoked by the actions of the Finnish authorities. The fact is that by deploying nuclear weapons on its territory, Finland is beginning to threaten us. And if Finland threatens us, we take appropriate measures."
The Finnish shift is part of a wider rethink of European deterrence that has prompted France to offer to extend the protection of its nuclear arsenal to other allies on the continent."
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Russia warns Finland it will be more vulnerable if it hosts nuclear weapons
Item 1 of 2 French President Emmanuel Macron and Finland's President Alexander Stubb attend a Nordic-Baltic Eight (NB8) work video conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France February 23, 2026. Thomas Padilla/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo [1/2]French President…
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🇷🇺 Russia Is the Quiet Winner of the Persian Gulf Energy Crisis
Just over a week before the conflict began, Russia's energy sector was under severe stress — oil prices were depressed, Western sanctions were biting, and millions of barrels of Russian crude floated without buyers on open water. The US-Israeli war on Iran has inverted that picture entirely. With Hormuz effectively closed and Gulf Arab producers unable to export at full capacity, Russian crude has become one of the few reliably deliverable alternatives on global markets.
Buyers that previously avoided Russian oil for political or logistical reasons are now returning with urgency. Indian refiners alone have already snapped up over 10 million barrels of Russian crude following a temporary one-month US sanctions waiver granted to India in response to the Middle East supply shock. Reliance Industries, India's largest private refiner, is among the buyers actively seeking Russian barrels under that waiver framework.
Moscow has effectively been handed a demand windfall and a pricing premium it could not have engineered through any diplomatic or market mechanism of its own.
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Just over a week before the conflict began, Russia's energy sector was under severe stress — oil prices were depressed, Western sanctions were biting, and millions of barrels of Russian crude floated without buyers on open water. The US-Israeli war on Iran has inverted that picture entirely. With Hormuz effectively closed and Gulf Arab producers unable to export at full capacity, Russian crude has become one of the few reliably deliverable alternatives on global markets.
Buyers that previously avoided Russian oil for political or logistical reasons are now returning with urgency. Indian refiners alone have already snapped up over 10 million barrels of Russian crude following a temporary one-month US sanctions waiver granted to India in response to the Middle East supply shock. Reliance Industries, India's largest private refiner, is among the buyers actively seeking Russian barrels under that waiver framework.
Moscow has effectively been handed a demand windfall and a pricing premium it could not have engineered through any diplomatic or market mechanism of its own.
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The Big Winner From the Persian Gulf Energy Crisis? Russia
Just over a week ago, Russia’s energy industry was in its worst shape in years, with low oil prices and sanctions starving the economy of cash. Millions of barrels of Russian oil floated on the sea, much of it without a destination.
The war in the Persian…
The war in the Persian…
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🇶🇦 Qatar Loads First LNG Cargo Since Force Majeure — A Signal, Not a Resumption
Qatar appears to have loaded its first LNG cargo from the Ras Laffan export complex since the facility was shut down and force majeure declared following drone attacks linked to the broader Iran conflict. The loading represents a symbolic operational restart, but market participants should not interpret it as a return to normal export volumes from the world's second-largest LNG exporter.
Ras Laffan handles the full output of Qatar's LNG export infrastructure, which delivers approximately 77 million tonnes per year to long-term contract buyers across Europe, Japan, South Korea, China, and India. Even a partial or intermittent resumption matters at the margin — European and Asian buyers have been competing frantically for alternative cargoes, driving European benchmark gas prices toward a 50 percent weekly gain, the largest since 2023. A single cargo does not resolve the structural supply gap that has opened over the past week.
Until the Strait of Hormuz reopens and tanker insurance markets normalise, Qatar's ability to sustain exports at any meaningful rate remains constrained by security conditions rather than by production capacity.
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Qatar appears to have loaded its first LNG cargo from the Ras Laffan export complex since the facility was shut down and force majeure declared following drone attacks linked to the broader Iran conflict. The loading represents a symbolic operational restart, but market participants should not interpret it as a return to normal export volumes from the world's second-largest LNG exporter.
Ras Laffan handles the full output of Qatar's LNG export infrastructure, which delivers approximately 77 million tonnes per year to long-term contract buyers across Europe, Japan, South Korea, China, and India. Even a partial or intermittent resumption matters at the margin — European and Asian buyers have been competing frantically for alternative cargoes, driving European benchmark gas prices toward a 50 percent weekly gain, the largest since 2023. A single cargo does not resolve the structural supply gap that has opened over the past week.
Until the Strait of Hormuz reopens and tanker insurance markets normalise, Qatar's ability to sustain exports at any meaningful rate remains constrained by security conditions rather than by production capacity.
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Qatar loads first LNG cargo since force majeure
Qatar appears to have loaded its first LNG cargo since shutting the Ras Laffan export complex and declaring force majeure after drone attacks and escalating conflict in the Middle East disrupted regional energy flows.