10/03/2026 – 14:51Israel strikes Beirut southern suburbs after warning
A strike hit Beirut’s southern suburbs on Tuesday, state media reported, after the Israeli military renewed its warning for people to evacuate the area.
“Israeli warplanes launched a raid a short while ago on the southern suburbs, the first after the warning issued by the enemy,” Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said.
Footage on AFPTV’s live broadcast showed smoke rising from the southern suburbs, where Hezbollah holds sway, while the Israeli military said it began “striking Hezbollah infrastructure” in the area.
10/03/2026 – 14:32 Iran war stifles Hormuz shipping, leads to ‘unprecedented’ impact on oil & global economy
Author, political scientist and chairman/founder of Cross-border Information Jon Marks tells FRANCE 24’s François Picard that the current crisis in the midle east is unlike any previous shock, and that the restrictions on the Strait of Hormuz has an ‘unprecedented’ impact on oil & global economy.
Watch more to know which countries and sectors will be impacted most by restricted trade.
10/03/2026 – 13:59In pictures: Mourners attend funerals for Tehran-backed fighters killed by US strike on Iraq
Members of the Popular Mobilization Forces attend the funeral of fighters from Kataib Imam Ali, who were killed in a US airstrike in Kirkuk province north of Baghdad, Iraq.
© Hadi Mizban, AP
10/03/2026 – 13:48 UNESCO sounds alarm over war threat to Middle East’s heritage sites
UNESCO is sounding the alarm and reiterating its deep concern about the war in the Middle East damaging priceless world heritage sites as Israeli and American bombings are causing daily damage to educational, scientific, and media infrastructure in the region.
10/03/2026 – 13:47Iran’s Larijani says Hormuz will either be strait of peace or defeat
The Strait of Hormuz will either be a strait of peace and prosperity for all or a strait of defeat and suffering for “warmongers”, Iranian security chief Ali Larijani said in a post on X on Tuesday.
The vital oil transit route has been all-but shut since vessels in the area were hit by Iranian strikes following US and Israeli attacks on the Islamic Republic.
Tehran has threatened to block the narrow waterway in response to any attack.
10/03/2026 – 10:52Mideast war displaces 100,000 in Lebanon in single day, UN says
More than 100,000 people have been newly displaced within Lebanon in just 24 hours amid the war raging in the Middle East, said the UN.
“As of today, more than 667,000 people in Lebanon have now registered on the (Lebanese) government’s online platform as displaced — and this is an increase of 100,000 in just one day,” said Karolina Lindholm Billing, the UN refugee agency’s representative in Lebanon.
“That’s a faster pace of displacement compared to 2024,” she told reporters in Geneva, speaking from Beirut.
A woman looks on as people sleep wrapped in blankets in a makeshift encampment along the waterfront in Beirut on March 10, 2026 © Anwar Amro, AFP
10/03/2026 – 13:43Israeli ground invasion of Lebanon would be ‘tremendous’ mistake, Spanish FM says
An Israeli ground invasion of Lebanon would be a “tremendous” mistake, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares has warned.
Albares, who also said Madrid demanded Lebanese militia Hezbollah cease its rocket launches toward Israel, announced Spain would send humanitarian aid worth 9 million euros to Beirut.
10/03/2026 – 13:42US would look at options if tasked to escort ships in Strait of Hormuz, says top general
The top US general said on Tuesday that the US military would look at a range of options if it was tasked with escorting ships through the Strait of Hormuz.
“If tasked to escort, you know, we’ll look at the range of options to set the military conditions to be able to do that,” General Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters.
10/03/2026 – 13:41Britain working with allies to support shipping through Strait of Hormuz
Britain is working with allies on a range of options to support commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz in the face of Iranian threats, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s spokesperson has said after calls with the leaders of Italy and Germany.
After speaking to Germany’s Friedrich Merz and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni late on Monday, Downing Street said in a readout that they agreed on the “vital importance of freedom of navigation” through the Strait and “agreed to work closely together in the coming days in the face of Iranian threats.”
“We’re working with our allies on a range of options to support commercial shipping through the Strait as the threat picture develops,” the spokesperson told reporters when asked about the readout.
10/03/2026 – 13:40Merz says sees ‘no common plan’ to quickly end Iran war
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday that a “dangerous escalation” was occurring in the US-Israeli war on Iran and there was “clearly no joint plan” for bringing it to a swift end.
“We are particularly concerned that there is clearly no joint plan for bringing this war to a swift and convincing end,” Merz said at a press conference in Berlin.
“We have no interest in a war without end. We have no interest in the dissolution of territorial integrity,” he added.
10/03/2026 – 13:35WHO warns of health risks from ‘black rain’ in Iran
The World Health Organization has warned that the “black rain” falling in Iran after strikes on oil facilities could cause respiratory problems, and it backed Iran’s advisory urging people to remain indoors.
The UN health agency said it has received multiple reports of oil-laden rain this week. Tehran was choked
in black smoke on Monday after an oil refinery was hit, in an escalation in strikes on Iran’s domestic energy supplies as part of the US-Israeli campaign.
“The black rain and the acidic rain coming with it is indeed a danger for the population, respiratory mainly,” WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier told a press briefing in Geneva, adding that Iran had advised people to stay indoors.
10/03/2026 – 13:34US military striking Iranian mine-laying vessels, top US general says
The top US general saidthat the United States was carrying out strikes against Iranian mine-laying vessels.
General Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters that in the first 10 days of the campaign against Iran, the US had sunk or destroyed more than 50 naval ships.
“I think they’re fighting, and I respect that, but I don’t think they’re more formidable than what we thought,” Caine said.
10/03/2026 – 13:31Australia grants asylum to 5 members of Iranian women’s football team
Australia granted asylum to five members of the Iranian women’s football team who were visiting the country for a tournament when the Iran war began, a government minister said Tuesday.
Supporters feared that the Iranian regime would target the women after the team did not sing the Iranian anthem before their first match.
10/03/2026 – 13:16Pentagon chief says Tuesday ‘most intense day’ of US attacks on Iran
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said attacks on Iran will ramp up Tuesday with the heaviest strikes since Washington launched the war 10 days ago.
“Today will be yet again our most intense day of strikes inside Iran,” Hegseth told a news conference at the Pentagon.
10/03/2026 – 13:07 As Iran war roils the Middle East, how much oil can Gulf states store?
France 24’s Luke Shrago reports.
10/03/2026 – 13:06Fire hits site housing Abu Dhabi National Oil Company operations after drone strike
Abu Dhabi authorities are responding to a fire in the Ruwais Industrial Complex after a drone attack, the emirate’s government media office has said, adding there were no injuries.
The complex houses Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) facilities that can refine up to 922,000 barrels of oil per day and serves as the central hub for the emirate’s downstream operations, including significant chemical, fertilizer, and industrial gas plants.
10/03/2026 – 13:06Southern Iran airport damaged in US, Israeli strikes: media
US and Israeli strikes have hit an airport in southern Iran, damaging part of the site as well as aircraft, local media reported on Tuesday.
“Following an American-Zionist attack on Kerman Airport, part of it was damaged and two old, out-of-service aircraft were hit,” Iran’s Tasnim news agency said, quoting a statement from the governor’s office in the southern province of Kerman.
It is not clear whether there are any military facilities at or near the site.
10/03/2026 – 13:05Drone attack causes fire, no casualties in UAE industrial area
A drone attack caused a fire in an industrial zone in the emirate of Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, UAE authorities said, in an area that houses oil and energy infrastructure.
“Authorities in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi are responding to a fire at a facility within the Ruwais Industrial City, caused by a drone attack. No injuries have been reported so far,” the Abu Dhabi media office said in a statement on X.
Authorities did not say whether any energy infrastructure had been hit.
10/03/2026 – 13:04US cardinal condemns Iran war as ‘not morally legitimate’
American Cardinal Robert McElroy, the archbishop of Washington, has said the US war in Iran is “not morally legitimate”, adopting a stronger tone than that of Pope Leo XIV.
In an interview with the Catholic Standard, the magazine of the Diocese of Washington, the cardinal said the war did not meet the criterion for a “morally legitimate war” under Catholic teaching because United States had not responded to an “existing or imminent and objectively verifiable attack by Iran”.