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Here's how to cope with in-flight anxietyAt Middle Creek, timing and distance shape a photo of migrating geeseThe World in PicturesUganda reintroduces rhinos into a protected area where they have been extinct since 1983Dietary supplement makers push the FDA to allow peptides and other new ingredients'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbellsAt Pentagon Christian service, Hegseth prays for violence 'against those who deserve no mercy'Industria del cangrejo de río de Luisiana sufre por escasez de trabajadores extranjerosAn automotive services company in Tehran said it has suffered extensive damaged following an airstrike on March 1. Associated Press journalists visited the company as part of a government-organized media tour.The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for a missile attack on Israel, their first since the war in the Mideast started. Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, a military spokesman for the Houthis, issued the claim in a statement aired Saturday morning by the rebels’ Ansar Allah media arm.Several explosions were heard in various areas across Tehran on Saturday. Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency said at least four locations in Tehran were targeted on Saturday. Israel’s rescue service Magen David Adom said 11 people were wounded in an Iranian missile attack in Eshtaol, near Jerusalem. Some people were wounded as a result of the impact of the explosion while others were hurt running to shelters, officials said.At least one person was killed in Tel Aviv following the Iranian attack towards Israel on Friday night. The man in his 60s was pronounced dead late Friday, after suffering severe injuries, Israel’s emergency service, Magen David Adom, said.A first responder assists an injured boy following a strike that hit a residential building amid the U.S.-Israeli military campaign in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, March 28, 2026. People donate money following a call by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani to support Iran and Lebanon during the war with the U.S. and Israel, Friday, March 27, 2026, in Babylon, Iraq. Abed Driss, displaced with his family from Beirut’s southern suburbs of Dahiyeh, holds up his son Benin, 3 months, next to a tent used as a shelter in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, March 28, 2026. Residents carry personal belongings as they leave a building damaged in a missile strike in Tel Aviv, Israel, early Saturday, March 28, 2026. The mother of Jawad Younes,11, who was killed on Friday in an Israeli airstrike, mourns over his body during a funeral procession in Saksakiyeh village, south Lebanon, Saturday, March 28, 2026. An automotive services company in Tehran said it has suffered extensive damaged following an airstrike on March 1. Associated Press journalists visited the company as part of a government-organized media tour.The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for a missile attack on Israel, their first since the war in the Mideast started. Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, a military spokesman for the Houthis, issued the claim in a statement aired Saturday morning by the rebels’ Ansar Allah media arm.Several explosions were heard in various areas across Tehran on Saturday. Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency said at least four locations in Tehran were targeted on Saturday. Israel’s rescue service Magen David Adom said 11 people were wounded in an Iranian missile attack in Eshtaol, near Jerusalem. Some people were wounded as a result of the impact of the explosion while others were hurt running to shelters, officials said.At least one person was killed in Tel Aviv following the Iranian attack towards Israel on Friday night. The man in his 60s was pronounced dead late Friday, after suffering severe injuries, Israel’s emergency service, Magen David Adom, said.A first responder assists an injured boy following a strike that hit a residential building amid the U.S.-Israeli military campaign in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, March 28, 2026. A first responder assists an injured boy following a strike that hit a residential building amid the U.S.-Israeli military campaign in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, March 28, 2026. People donate money following a call by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani to support Iran and Lebanon during the war with the U.S. and Israel, Friday, March 27, 2026, in Babylon, Iraq. People donate money following a call by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani to support Iran and Lebanon during the war with the U.S. and Israel, Friday, March 27, 2026, in Babylon, Iraq. Abed Driss, displaced with his family from Beirut’s southern suburbs of Dahiyeh, holds up his son Benin, 3 months, next to a tent used as a shelter in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, March 28, 2026. Abed Driss, displaced with his family from Beirut’s southern suburbs of Dahiyeh, holds up his son Benin, 3 months, next to a tent used as a shelter in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, March 28, 2026. Residents carry personal belongings as they leave a building damaged in a missile strike in Tel Aviv, Israel, early Saturday, March 28, 2026. Residents carry personal belongings as they leave a building damaged in a missile strike in Tel Aviv, Israel, early Saturday, March 28, 2026. The mother of Jawad Younes,11, who was killed on Friday in an Israeli airstrike, mourns over his body during a funeral procession in Saksakiyeh village, south Lebanon, Saturday, March 28, 2026. The mother of Jawad Younes,11, who was killed on Friday in an Israeli airstrike, mourns over his body during a funeral procession in Saksakiyeh village, south Lebanon, Saturday, March 28, 2026. has shaken markets and prices. The United States and Israel continue to strike Iran, whose retaliatory attacks have targeted Israel and neighboring Gulf Arab states. More than 3,000 people have been killed. The Houthis’ entry could further hurt global shipping if they again target vessels in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait off the Red Sea, through which about 12% of the world’s trade typically passes. Witnesses in Tehran reported heavy strikes late Saturday. Israel’s military earlier said it targeted Iran’s naval weapons production facilities that it would finish attacking essential weapons production sites within “a few days.” The U.S. said it has struck more than 11,000 Iranian targets in the war. Iran fired missiles toward Israel, while air defenses early Sunday intercepted missiles and drones across Gulf countries. Two Israeli strikes early Sunday in the Gaza Strip killed six Palestinians, including three policemen. One attack hit a police checkpoint while another hit a group of people in the southern city of Khan Younis, according to Nasser hospital, which received the bodies. The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the strikes. Israel’s military said early Sunday that a soldier had been killed while three others were wounded in combat in southern Lebanon. The death raised the total to five Israeli soldiers killed there since the conflict with Hezbollah reignited March 2.Houthi Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree said on the rebels’ Al-Masirah satellite television station that they launched missiles toward “sensitive Israeli military sites” in the south. If the Houthis increase attacks on commercial shipping, as they have in the past, it would further push up oil prices and destabilize “all of maritime security,” said Ahmed Nagi, a senior Yemen analyst at the International Crisis Group. “The impact would not be limited to the energy market.” The Bab el-Mandeb, at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, is crucial for vessels heading to the Suez Canal through the Red Sea. Saudi Arabia has been sending millions of barrels of crude oil a day through it because the Strait of Hormuz is effectively closed.The Houthis’ latest involvement would complicate the deployment of the USS Gerald R. Ford, the aircraft carrier that arrived in Croatia on Saturday for maintenance. Sending the ship to the Red Sea could draw attacks similar to those on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in 2024 and the USS Harry S. Truman in 2025. The Houthis have held Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, since 2014. Saudi Arabia launched a war against the Houthis on behalf of Yemen’s exiled government in 2015 and they now have an uneasy ceasefire.Pakistan said Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt will send top diplomats to Islamabad for talks aimed at ending the war, arriving Sunday for a two-day visit. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said he and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian held “extensive discussions” on regional hostilities. But Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told his Turkish counterpart by phone that Tehran was skeptical about recent diplomatic efforts. Iranian state-run media said Araghchi accused the U.S. of making “unreasonable demands” and exhibiting “contradictory actions.”to Iran for a possible ceasefire, with a proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and restrict Iran’s nuclear program, which is the issue at the heart of tensions with the U.S. and Israel. U.S. ships with around 2,500 Marines trained in amphibious landings have arrived, adding to the largest American force in the region in more than two decades. At least 1,000 paratroopers from theon Saudi Arabia’s Prince Sultan Air Base in the previous week, according to two people briefed on the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to comment publicly. Iran fired six ballistic missiles and 29 drones at the base Friday, injuring at least 15 troops, five of them seriously. The base, about 96 kilometers from the Saudi capital Riyadh, was attacked twice earlier in the week, including a strike that wounded 14 U.S. troops, according to the people briefed on the matter.Iranian authorities say more than 1,900 people have been killed in the Islamic Republic, while 19 have been reported dead in Israel.In Iraq, where Iranian-supported militia groups have entered the conflict, 80 members of the security forces have died.Magdy reported from Cairo and Madhani from Washington. Associated Press writers Konstantin Toropin in Washington, Cara Anna in Lowville, New York, Munir Ahmed in Islamabad and Wafaa Shurafa in Deir al Balah, Gaza, contributed to this report.Magdy is a Middle East reporter for The Associated Press, based in Cairo. He focuses on conflict, migration and human rights abuses.Gambrell is the news director for the Gulf and Iran for The Associated Press. He has reported from each of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Iran and other locations across the world since joining the AP in 2006. Live updates: Yemen’s Houthis claim responsibility for missile attacks on Israel as war in Middle East intensifies
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