Australian stock market posts biggest single-day slump in 11 months
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S. Korean stocks suffer massive sell-off amid Middle East conflict, surging oil prices
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Desalination plants in several Gulf states caught in crossfire amid Middle East tensions
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Iran conflict sends shockwaves through African fuel market and economies
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Israel says launches 'wide-scale strikes' in Tehran, Isfahan, S. Iran
The Israeli military said on Monday that warplanes began a new "wide-scale wave of strikes" on infrastructure across Tehran, Isfahan, and southern Iran, following an Iranian missile attack that killed at least one person in central Israel.
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Iran says US 'aggression' aimed at dominating resources
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday that the main objective of the U.S. "aggression" against Iran is to dominate the country's resources.
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Trump envoys cancel planned visit to Israel: state TV
U.S. President Donald Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have canceled their planned visit to Israel, Israel's state-owned Kan TV news reported on Monday.
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Iranian missile strike near Tel Aviv kills 1, injures 2
A missile attack from Iran killed a construction worker in central Israel on Monday, the country's Magen David Adom rescue service spokesman Zaki Heller told Xinhua.
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Lebanese parliament extends mandate by 2 years amid ongoing escalation
The Lebanese Parliament voted on Monday to extend its mandate for two additional years, citing the impossibility of holding parliamentary elections amid the ongoing escalation between Hezbollah and Israel, local media reported.
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4 killed in landfill landslide in Indonesia
Four people were killed after a large garbage mound collapsed at the Bantar Gebang Integrated Waste Processing Site in Bekasi, on the outskirts of Indonesia's Jakarta, the Ministry of Environment said on Monday.
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Scotland's busiest train station closed after blaze
Scotland's busiest train station was closed Monday after a blaze engulfed a neighbouring historic building, sparking a huge emergency response and causing travel disruption.
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Swiss ski bar fire probe widens, five local officials now under investigation
Swiss prosecutors on Monday announced they were investigating five current and former local officials as part of the probe into the New Year's bar fire in the town of Crans-Montana that killed 41 people.
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Israel begins new wave of attack on Beirut's southern suburb
Israel launched on Monday a new wave of airstrikes on Beirut's southern suburb, with the military saying in a statement it is targeting Hezbollah infrastructures.
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Iran's new supreme leader explained: Who is Mojtaba Khamenei?
Mojtaba Khamenei, the 56-year-old second son of Iran's late supreme leader Ali Khamenei, has been elected as the country's new supreme leader, Iran's Assembly of Experts announced on Sunday.
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People visit Philadelphia Flower Show in US
People visit Philadelphia Flower Show in US
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US orders departure of non-emergency government staff from Saudi Arabia
The US Department of State ordered the departure of non-emergency government employees and their family members from Saudi Arabia due to safety risks, according to a travel advisory issued on Sunday.
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Xi's special envoy Ni Hong to attend Chilean president's inauguration
At the invitation of the Chilean side, President Xi Jinping's Special Envoy and Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development Ni Hong will attend the presidential inauguration of Jose Antonio Kast in Chile's capital Santiago on March 11, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced Monday.
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Israeli helicopter-borne landing attempt in eastern Lebanon triggers clashes
BEIRUT, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Violent clashes erupted early Monday in eastern Lebanon after Israeli forces attempted an airborne landing using helicopters, according to official sources and Hezbollah.Lebanon's official National News Agency reported that intense clashes are taking place in the Al-Chaara area toward the outskirts of Nabi Chit to repel Israeli forces that carried out a landing on the heights of the eastern mountain range near the Lebanese-Syrian border.In the meantime, Hezbollah said in a statement that fighters of the Islamic Resistance detected the infiltration of about 15 helicopters belonging to the Israeli army coming from the Syrian direction.Hezbollah fighters confronted the helicopters and the infiltrating force with appropriate weapons, the statement added.Hezbollah repelled a similar Israeli commando airborne operation near the village of Nabi Chit last week. The clash resulted in 41 deaths and 40 injuries, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
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