🇧🇪🕍💣❗️ — Explosion reported in vicinity of synagogue in Liege, Belgium.

🇨🇳🤝🇮🇷🇮🇷 — People's Republic of China says opposes any targeting of new Iran leader.

📝 China says Iran's decision to name Mojtaba Khamenei as its new supreme leader, succeeding his late father following his killing, is an internal matter for Iran

🇷🇺🇮🇷🛫 — TASS says that Russia’s Rosatom says it is preparing to evacuate a second group of family members and some personnel involved in the construction of Units 2 and 3 at Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant to Russia.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/tass_agency/365287

🇺🇸 Disaster looms over the city of Corpus Christi, Texas, as the Corpus Christi Lake has seen its lowest water level in decades.

City officials expect to reach a “water emergency” within months and run out of water next year. That would halt jet fuel deliveries to Texas airports, hike gas prices and trigger a local economic disaster without precedent, former officials say.

Without significant rainfall, Corpus Christi is headed for a “water emergency” within months and total depletion of the system next year, according to the city’s website. “The impacts are going to be felt tremendously through the state, if not internationally,” said Sean Strawbridge, former CEO of the Port of Corpus Christi Authority, the nation’s top port for crude oil exports, in a 40-minute interview Thursday. “This should be no surprise to anybody. We were talking about this over a decade ago.”

Other current and former officials, alarmed at what they call a lack of preparations, have suggested the potential for an economic crisis involving mass layoffs, disruption of fuel supplies and billions of dollars in emergency spending to avoid an evacuation of the city.

“The water shortage in the Coastal Bend is the result of a historic five-year drought,” it said. “Currently, the City of Corpus Christi has $1 billion in City Council-approved and funded water projects underway to address our water needs. The City remains committed to ensuring water security for the more than 500,000 residents and our commercial and industrial customers.”

Depletion of this region’s reservoirs would lead to “controlled depression” for the local economy, “mass unemployment” and “industrial total shutdown,” according to a two-page report by Don Roach, former assistant general manager of the San Patricio Municipal Water District, which supplies many of the region’s large industrial water users.

That includes refineries operated by Flint Hills Resources, Valero and Citgo that provide jet fuel to Texas airports and meet much of the state’s daily demand for gasoline.

Besides the historic drought, much of the water is being consumed by the oil and plastics refineries who need to cool down the equipment to prevent overheating and explosions hitting their machinery. The Corpus Christi city authorities tried to supplement the water supply by building desalinisation plants but local NIMBY opposition saw these plans scrapped in 2019 and nothing has been done to fix the city's water issues since.

🔗 https://www.texastribune.org/2026/03/08/texas-corpus-christi-water-crisis/

🇬🇧 British aircraft carrier will not be sent to Middle East, say officials

Britain has scrapped contingency plans to send the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales to the Middle East following Donald Trump’s mocking of Sir Keir Starmer for supposedly wanting to join the war with Iran after it had already been “won”.

British officials said that the carrier, currently in Portsmouth, was not being prepared for Iran-related activity and Downing Street said there was “no decision to deploy her”.

The news came after the Ministry of Defence put the ship and its crew in a state of high readiness to set sail within five days, a move confirmed in a statement on Saturday in relation to Britain’s military build-up in the Middle East.

“HMS Prince of Wales has always been on very high readiness and we are increasing the preparedness of the carrier, reducing the time it would take to set sail for any deployment,” the MoD said on Saturday.

Some British officials now claimed there was never any plan to send the carrier to the Middle East and that it is instead being prepared for Nato operations, with a deployment to the Arctic scheduled.

But other UK officials maintained that the sudden change in readiness was ordered last week to give the government an option to deploy the warship to the eastern Mediterranean or beyond, towards the Middle East.

Britain’s other carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, is currently being refitted and is therefore unable to be deployed.

🔗 https://archive.ph/rMrgO

🇮🇷⚔️🇺🇸 The U.S. military has lost two more MQ-9 Reaper drones during Operation Epic Fury in Iran, bringing the total lost to 11 drones.

The 11 drones lost are worth over $330 million in total.

Source: CBS News

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🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — President Trump told CBS News that the war against Iran could be over soon, saying the U.S. is “very far” ahead of his initial 4-5-week estimated time frame.

I think the war is very complete, pretty much. They have no navy, no communications, they’ve got no Air Force.

📈 The S&P 500 erased all losses incurred since Trump started the war with Iran after Trump's recent statement that the war with Iran is "near completed".

📝: Trump is saying anything that would calm the markets down. There's no hints the U.S. is preparing to call the quits. Recall that Trump told medias in Israel that the war will continue as long as Benjamin Netanyahu wants. Nothing which Trump says can be taken at face value because its most certainly a lie.

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🇨🇳🛢 The only vessels that are crossing the Hormuz Strait are Chinese and Iranian tankers.

The Strait has not been reopened nor did any ship captain follow U.S. president, Donald Trump's call to cross the Straits.

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🇮🇷⚔️🇮🇱 The IRGC Public Relations stated that any European or Arab country which expels the Israeli and American ambassadors from its territory will be given safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz.

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