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Majority consensus reached on Iran's next supreme leader

DUBAI, March 8 (Reuters) - The clerical body that will choose Iran's next supreme leader, succeeding the slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has more or less reached a majority consensus, Assembly of Experts member Ayatollah Mohammadmehdi Mirbaqeri said on Sunday. The Mehr news

War in the Middle East: latest developments

Here are the latest events in the Middle East war on Sunday: - Tehran oil facilities hit - An Iranian official said that overnight US-Israeli air strikes damaged several Tehran oil facilities. The reported targeting of Iran's oil infrastructure will deepen global markets'

Beyond hope and hype: five certainties in the AI storm

The just-published Anthropic paper by Massenkoff and McCrory is a genuinely careful, well-intentioned and much-needed piece of work. The authors build a thoughtful exposure measure, draw on real usage data, apply a clean difference-in-differences framework and find limited

Sri Lanka hospital releases 22 rescued Iranian sailors

Sri Lanka discharged from hospital 22 Iranian sailors who were plucked from life rafts after their warship was sunk by a US submarine, officials said Sunday. The sailors were treated at Karapitiya Hospital in the southern port city of Galle since Wednesday after the IRIS Dena