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A fire broke out near the US consulate in Dubai following a drone strike on Tuesday night (3 March).

President Donald Trump has threatened to impose a full U.S. trade embargo on Spain after the NATO ally refused to let the U.S. military use its bases for missions linked to strikes on Iran.
“Spain has been terrible,” Trump told reporters during a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, adding: “We’re going to cut off all trade with Spain. We don't want anything to do with Spain.”
He said he had told Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to “cut off all dealings” with Spain.
The U.S. relocated 15 aircraft, including refuelling tankers, from the Rota and Moron military bases in southern Spain after the country’s Socialist leadership said it would not allow them to be used to attack Iran.
Trump again referenced Spain’s refusal to heed U.S. calls for all NATO members to spend five percent of their GDP on defence, and added: “Spain has absolutely nothing that we need.”
“All business having to do with Spain, I have the right to stop it. Embargoes – do anything I want with it – and we ..

US warns ‘hardest hit yet to come’ as its embassy in Riyadh hit in drone attackUS embassy staff in Oman have been instructed to take cover due to the risk of fresh Iranian strikes, as the four-day Middle East conflict continues to spread across the region.
“Find a secure location within your residence or another safe building,” the embassy warned in an alaert on X, advising staff and citizens to “have a supply of food, water, medications, and other essential items”.
Further Iranian retaliation is anticipated after Israel launched fresh attacks on Tehran and Beirut.
Pictures show the smouldering remains of building reduced to rubble in a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital. The Israeli military had earlier said it was carrying “simultaneous targeted strikes against military targets in Tehran and Beirut”.
Israeli troops have been also deployed to southern Lebanon in a major escalation of the war in the Middle East, Israel’s defence minister has said. A military spokesperson said it..

Cyprus has claimed that the British government’s poor communication caused a drone attack on the UK base in the country, dragging them into the escalating conflict in the Middle East.
The government in Nicosia also refused to rule out renegotiating the use of RAF Akrotiri, one of two bases the British have maintained since the end of colonial rule of the island in 1960.
Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis told reporters on Monday: “This is something that we must say we view with dissatisfaction… There was no clear clarification that the British bases in Cyprus would under no circumstances be used for any purpose other than humanitarian reasons in Sunday’s statement by the UK prime minister.”
A drone struck RAF Akrotiri shortly after midnight on Monday, causing minor material damage to an aircraft hangar. Another two drones were intercepted by British warplanes around midday on Monday after they were scrambled from the air base.
Senior Cypriot officials say the attack was ca..

Pope Leo XIV has issued a heartfelt plea for peace amid escalating U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, warning that continuing violence risks plunging the Middle East into an “irreparable abyss.”

The U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday in what President Donald Trump said was a massive operation to destroy the country’s military capabilities and eliminate the threat of it creating a nuclear weapon.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry said it would defend its homeland as the Revolutionary Guard launched counterattacks, firing drones and missiles at Israel. Further strikes were launched at U.S. military installations in Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar.
The strikes follow weeks of pressure from Trump on Tehran to make a deal to constrain its nuclear program. In the lead up to the strikes, Washington built up a significant fleet of American warships in the region.
The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and three guided-missile destroyers arrived in January to bolster the number of warships in the region. The world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, and four accompanying destroyers later were also dispatched from the Caribbean.
At least 165 people were reported killed at a gi..