{"id":521988,"date":"2026-03-08T06:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T06:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/521988\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T06:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T06:37:07","slug":"huge-fire-engulfs-kuwait-city-tower-as-trump-accuses-starmer-of-seeking-to-join-wars-after-weve-already-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/521988\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge fire engulfs Kuwait City tower as Trump accuses Starmer of seeking to &#8216;join wars after we&#8217;ve already won&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what you need to knowpublished at 06:12 GMT<\/p>\n<p>06:12 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Iran<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The IDF says it has launched a fresh wave of attacks targeting Iran&#8217;s infrastructure, after oil depots in Tehran were hit overnight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Iran\u2019s \u201copenness to de-escalation\u201d has been \u201calmost immediately killed\u201d by President Trump\u2019s \u201cmisinterpretation\u201d of Iran\u2019s capabilities and intent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the Gulf<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Kuwait army says it has been dealing &#8220;with a wave of hostile drones&#8221;, including an attack on fuel tankers at the Kuwait International Airport. Elsewhere, a huge fire engulfed a tower. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A resident of Dubai was killed after shrapnel from an \u201caerial interception\u201d fell on a vehicle in the Al Barsha area, the Dubai Media Office said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Israel<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Opposition politician Yair Lapid urged the government to &#8220;destroy all of Iran&#8217;s oil fields&#8221; to cripple its economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The IDF reported that it was working to intercept missiles launched from Iran and said it had carried out a strike on the Quds Force in Lebanon, the overseas operation arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Lebanon<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lebanese officials reported multiple strikes overnight, including one which they said was an Israeli airstrike on a hotel &#8211; it killed four people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They said nearly half a million have been displaced by the fighting so far. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the US<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">President  Trump hit out at Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in a Truth Social post saying \u201cwe don\u2019t need people that join wars after we\u2019ve already won\u201d. This was after the BBC learned that UK aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales has been placed on advanced readiness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s what you need to knowpublished at 06:12 GMT 06:12 GMT In Iran The IDF says it has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-521988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}