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<\/p>\n10\/03\/2026 – 14:51Israel strikes Beirut southern suburbs after warning<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
10\/03\/2026 – 14:32 Iran war stifles Hormuz shipping, leads to \u2018unprecedented\u2019 impact on oil & global economy<\/p>\n
Author, political scientist and chairman\/founder of Cross-border Information Jon Marks tells FRANCE 24’s Fran\u00e7ois 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 \u2018unprecedented\u2019 impact on oil & global economy.<\/p>\n
Watch more to know which countries and sectors will be impacted most by restricted trade. <\/p>\n
10\/03\/2026 – 13:59In pictures: Mourners attend funerals for Tehran-backed fighters killed by US strike on Iraq<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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\u00a9 Hadi Mizban, AP<\/p>\n
10\/03\/2026 – 13:48 UNESCO sounds alarm over war threat to Middle East’s heritage sites<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
10\/03\/2026 – 13:47Iran’s Larijani says Hormuz will either be strait of peace or defeat<\/p>\n
\u2060The Strait \u200bof Hormuz \u200bwill either be a strait of peace and prosperity \u200bfor \u200call \u2060or a strait of defeat \u200cand suffering for “warmongers”, Iranian \u2060security chief Ali Larijani said in a \u200bpost on X \u200con Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The vital oil transit route \u200chas been all-but shut \u200bsince vessels in the area were hit by Iranian \u200bstrikes following US and \u200bIsraeli attacks \u200bon the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n
Tehran \u200bhas threatened to block the narrow waterway in response to any \u2060attack.<\/p>\n
10\/03\/2026 – 10:52Mideast war displaces 100,000 in Lebanon in single day, UN says<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
“That’s a faster pace of displacement compared to 2024,” she told reporters in Geneva, speaking from Beirut.<\/p>\n
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A woman looks on as people sleep wrapped in blankets in a makeshift encampment along the waterfront in Beirut on March 10, 2026 \u00a9 Anwar Amro, AFP<\/p>\n
10\/03\/2026 – 13:43Israeli ground invasion of Lebanon would be ‘tremendous’ mistake, Spanish FM says<\/p>\n
\u2060An \u200bIsraeli ground \u200binvasion of Lebanon would be a “tremendous” \u200bmistake, \u200cSpanish \u2060Foreign Minister Jose \u200cManuel Albares has warned.<\/p>\n
Albares, who also said \u200bMadrid demanded \u200cLebanese militia Hezbollah cease its rocket \u200claunches toward \u200bIsrael, announced Spain would send humanitarian aid \u200bworth 9 \u200bmillion euros \u200bto Beirut.<\/p>\n
10\/03\/2026 – 13:42US would look at options if tasked to escort ships in Strait of Hormuz, says top general<\/p>\n
\u2060The top \u200bUS general said \u200bon Tuesday that the US military would \u200blook \u200cat \u2060a range of options \u200cif it was tasked \u2060with escorting ships through the \u200bStrait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n
“If tasked \u200cto escort, you know, we’ll look \u200cat the range \u200bof options to set the military conditions to \u200bbe able to \u200bdo that,” General \u200bDan Caine, chairman \u200bof the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters.<\/p>\n
10\/03\/2026 – 13:41Britain working with allies to support shipping through Strait of Hormuz<\/p>\n
Britain is \u200bworking with allies on a range \u200bof options to support commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz \u200bin \u200cthe face of \u2060Iranian threats, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s spokesperson \u200chas said after calls with \u2060the leaders of Italy and Germany.<\/p>\n
After speaking to \u200bGermany’s Friedrich Merz and \u200cItaly’s Giorgia Meloni late on Monday, Downing Street said in a \u200creadout that they agreed on the “vital \u200bimportance of freedom of navigation” through the Strait and “agreed to work closely together \u200bin the coming days \u200bin the face \u200bof Iranian threats.”<\/p>\n
“We’re working with our allies \u200bon a range of options to support commercial shipping through the Strait as the threat picture \u2060develops,” the spokesperson told reporters when \u2060asked about \u200bthe readout.<\/p>\n
10\/03\/2026 – 13:40Merz says sees ‘no common plan’ to quickly end Iran war<\/p>\n
German Chancellor \u200bFriedrich Merz said on \u200bTuesday that a “dangerous escalation” was occurring in the \u200bUS-Israeli \u200cwar on \u2060Iran and there was “clearly \u200cno joint plan” for bringing \u2060it to a swift end.<\/p>\n
“We are \u200bparticularly concerned that \u200cthere is clearly no joint plan for bringing \u200cthis war to a \u200bswift and convincing end,” Merz said at a press \u200bconference in Berlin.<\/p>\n
“We \u200bhave no \u200binterest in a war \u200bwithout end. We have no interest in the dissolution of territorial \u2060integrity,” he added.<\/p>\n
10\/03\/2026 – 13:35WHO warns of health risks from ‘black rain’ in Iran<\/p>\n
The World \u200bHealth Organization has warned that the “black rain” falling \u200bin Iran after strikes on oil facilities could cause respiratory problems, and it backed Iran\u2019s advisory urging people to remain indoors.<\/p>\n
The \u200bUN \u200chealth agency said it \u200chas received multiple reports of oil-laden rain this \u2060week. Tehran was choked<\/p>\n
in black smoke on Monday after an oil refinery was hit, \u200bin an escalation in strikes on Iran’s domestic \u200cenergy supplies as part of the US-Israeli campaign.<\/p>\n
“The black rain and the acidic rain coming with it is \u200cindeed a danger for the population, respiratory mainly,” WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier \u200btold a press briefing in Geneva, adding that Iran had advised people to stay indoors.<\/p>\n
10\/03\/2026 – 13:34US military striking Iranian mine-laying vessels, top US general says<\/p>\n
The \u200btop US \u200bgeneral saidthat the United \u200bStates \u200cwas \u2060carrying out \u200cstrikes against Iranian mine-laying vessels.<\/p>\n
General \u2060Dan Caine, chairman of the \u200bJoint Chiefs \u200cof Staff, told reporters that \u200cin the first \u200b10 days of the campaign against Iran, the \u200bUS \u200bhad sunk \u200bor destroyed more \u200bthan 50 naval ships.<\/p>\n
“I \u200bthink they’re \u200cfighting, and I respect that, \u200cbut I don’t think \u200bthey’re more formidable than what we thought,” \u200bCaine said.<\/p>\n
10\/03\/2026 – 13:31Australia grants asylum to 5 members of Iranian women’s football team<\/p>\n
Australia granted asylum to five members of the Iranian women\u2019s football team who were visiting the country for a tournament when the Iran war began, a government minister said Tuesday. <\/p>\n
Supporters feared that the Iranian regime would target the women after the team did not sing the Iranian anthem before their first match.<\/p>\n
10\/03\/2026 – 13:16Pentagon chief says Tuesday ‘most intense day’ of US attacks on Iran<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“Today will be yet again our most intense day of strikes inside Iran,” Hegseth told a news conference at the Pentagon.<\/p>\n
10\/03\/2026 – 13:07 As Iran war roils the Middle East, how much oil can Gulf states store?<\/p>\n
France 24\u2019s Luke Shrago reports.<\/p>\n
10\/03\/2026 – 13:06Fire hits site housing Abu Dhabi National Oil Company operations after drone strike<\/p>\n
Abu \u2060Dhabi authorities \u200bare responding to \u200ba fire in the Ruwais Industrial \u200bComplex \u200cafter \u2060a drone attack, the \u200cemirate’s government media office \u2060has said, adding there were \u200bno injuries.<\/p>\n
The \u200ccomplex houses Abu Dhabi National Oil \u200cCompany (ADNOC) facilities that can \u200brefine up to 922,000 barrels of oil \u200bper day and \u200bserves as \u200bthe central hub \u200bfor the emirate’s downstream operations, including significant chemical, fertilizer, and industrial \u2060gas plants.<\/p>\n
10\/03\/2026 – 13:06Southern Iran airport damaged in US, Israeli strikes: media<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
It is not clear whether there are any military facilities at or near the site.<\/p>\n
10\/03\/2026 – 13:05Drone attack causes fire, no casualties in UAE industrial area<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
Authorities did not say whether any energy infrastructure had been hit.<\/p>\n
10\/03\/2026 – 13:04US cardinal condemns Iran war as ‘not morally legitimate’<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"10\/03\/2026 – 14:51Israel strikes Beirut southern suburbs after warning A strike hit Beirut’s southern suburbs on Tuesday, state…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[90432,22892,49665,85,87,145699,46,88,47,2899,43,2586],"class_list":["post-331754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-air-strikes","tag-drones","tag-energy-security","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-iran-conflict","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-middle-east","tag-military","tag-news","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}