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    <text>Gaza peace plan</text>
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      <text>U.S. president Donald Trump extends his deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by ten days, untill 6 April, or &quot;face further assassinations of senior officials&quot;. </text>
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      <text>U.S. president Donald Trump extends his deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by ten days or &quot;face further assassinations of senior officials&quot;. </text>
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    <text>U.S. president Donald Trump extends his deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by ten days, until 6 April, or &quot;face further assassinations of senior officials&quot;. </text>
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      <text>Ugandan Chief of Defence Forces Muhoozi Kainerugaba says the country is ready to join the war &quot;on the side of Israel&quot; and says the Uganda People's Defence Force will enter the war soon if Iranian attacks on Israel don't end soon. </text>
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    <text>Ugandan military chief Muhoozi Kainerugaba says the country is ready to join the war &quot;on the side of Israel&quot; and says the Ugandan military will enter the war soon if Iranian attacks on Israel do not end soon. </text>
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    <date>2026-03-23</date>
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    <text>At least one person is killed in an Israeli strike on Hazmieh, Greater Beirut, Lebanon. The Israeli military states that the attack targeted a member of Iran's Quds Force in the area. </text>
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    <text>Three Kuwaiti soldiers are injured after two drones struck Ahmad al-Jaber Air Base, damaging the facility. </text>
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      <text>Turkey and NATO forces shoot down an Iranian ballistic missile that was about to enter Turkish airspace. </text>
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      <text>Turkey and NATO forces shot down an Iranian ballistic missile that was about to enter Turkish airspace. </text>
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      <text>Turkey and NATO forces shot down an iranian ballistic missile that was about to enter the country's airspace. </text>
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    <text>Turkey and NATO forces shoot down a suspected Iranian ballistic missile that was about to enter Turkish airspace. </text>
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      <text>The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirms the entrances to the underground Natanz Nuclear Facility in Iran have been bombed. However, there are no signs of any increase in radiation at the facility. </text>
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    <text>The International Atomic Energy Agency confirms the entrances to the underground Natanz Nuclear Facility in Iran have been bombed. However, there are no signs of any increase in radiation at the facility. </text>
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    <text>The United States casts its sixth veto over a draft United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, the lifting of Israeli restrictions on aid, and the release of all hostages. </text>
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      <text>Israeli jets strike 120 surface-to-surface missile systems in central Iran and 10 command and control centres belonging to IRGC's Quds Force. </text>
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    <text>Israeli jets strike 120 surface-to-surface missile systems in central Iran and ten command and control centres belonging to the IRGC's Quds Force. </text>
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      <text>Those killed in the Israeli decapitation strikes include commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Hossein Salami, senior nuclear scientist and former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Fereydoon Abbasi, and chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mohammad Bagheri and Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani. </text>
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      <text>Those killed in the Israeli strikes include commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Hossein Salami, senior nuclear scientist and former head of Atomic Energy Organization Fereydoon Abbasi, and chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mohammad Bagheri. </text>
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      <text>Iranian state media says commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Hossein Salami has been killed. Senior nuclear scientist and former head of Atomic Energy Organization Fereydoon Abbasi is also killed in an Israeli strike. </text>
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    <text>Israeli decapitation strikes kill commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Hossein Salami, senior nuclear scientist and former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Fereydoon Abbasi, and chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mohammad Bagheri and Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani. </text>
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  <text>Israel claims to have killed Asghar Bakri, the commander of Unit 840 of the Quds Force. </text>
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