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- The US military said it struck dozens of IRGC targets, including command centers, missile facilities and coastal defense sites in Iran.
- Iranian authorities reported three deaths and two injured children after a residential building was struck on Qeshm Island; two people remained trapped.
- Jordan’s armed forces said air defenses intercepted five missiles launched from Iran toward the kingdom, with no casualties reported there.
- Richard Wagner’s Rienzi opened Bayreuth’s 150th anniversary festival for the first time, amid debate over Adolf Hitler’s documented fondness for the opera.
- Alexandra Szemerédy and Magdolna Parditka depict Rienzi’s rise through elections, subsequent military dictatorship and eventual death after losing power.
- Nathalie Stutzmann, the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and the production team received standing ovations at the premiere.
- Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Myanmar had agreed to accept 5,000 Rohingya asylum seekers from Malaysia.
- UNHCR records showed about 126,000 Rohingya were registered in Malaysia at the end of February.
- Myanmar’s presidential office had not responded by Thursday to Anwar’s statement, according to the report.
- The Senate Judiciary Committee postponed its vote on Todd Blanche’s attorney general nomination while efforts continued to secure sufficient support.
- Republican senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis sought written assurances about the abandoned compensation fund and limits on Donald Trump’s tax-audit protection.
- The Justice Department sent the senators revised language on Wednesday, according to a person familiar with the matter.
- The U.S. military said it struck dozens of Iranian Revolutionary Guard targets, including command centers, missile and drone facilities, and coastal defenses.
- The strikes followed Iranian attacks on a Jordanian base hosting U.S. troops, while Jordan said its forces intercepted five Iranian missiles.
- U.S. and Saudi forces struck Iran-backed militia sites in Iraq; the U.S. military said at least 20 fighters and six Iranian advisers were killed.
- The International Organization for Migration estimates that roughly 300,000 people from more than 80 countries are exploited in Asian scam compounds.
- Amy Pope said fraudulent job advertisements lure recruits before their documents are confiscated and they are forced to conduct online fraud.
- Myanmar’s military-backed parliament approved penalties, including execution, for using violence or coercion to force people into online scams.
- The death toll from Tuesday’s magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Kumamoto Prefecture reached 34, including cases authorities are assessing for quake links.
- At least seven people died after an explosion partially collapsed Aeon Mall in Kashima; the blast occurred about 80 minutes after the quake.
- Eight people died at a Nippon Paper Industries mill in Yatsushiro, the Kumamoto Prefectural Government reported.
- Ambrey said a drone struck Energos Winter, a gas-storage tanker owned by a U.S. company, at Egypt’s Mediterranean port of Damietta.
- Egypt’s petroleum ministry confirmed a port fire, saying it was quickly contained and caused no casualties; the ministry did not mention a drone attack.
- Three trading sources said the blaze spread from Energos Winter to another vessel before being dealt with.
- Iraq’s National Security Council condemned Saudi-US strikes on PMF bases in seven provinces as a breach of sovereignty, according to a statement.
- Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi cancelled a planned Thursday visit to Saudi Arabia, which would have been his first trip there since taking office.
- Saudi Arabia and US Central Command said the strikes targeted Iran-backed groups accused of attacking American troops and Saudi energy facilities.
- The Federal Reserve kept its target interest-rate range at 3.50%-3.75% for a fifth consecutive meeting.
- Beth Hammack, Neel Kashkari and Lorie Logan dissented, favoring a quarter-percentage-point increase.
- The Fed said inflation remained elevated, while Chair Kevin Warsh described economic growth and employment conditions as solid.
- French authorities ordered Xenia Fedorova to leave France, placed her under house arrest and required her to report daily to police, the interior ministry said.
- The ministry alleged that Fedorova’s media activities spread disinformation, harmed state interests and posed a serious, current threat to public order.
- Fedorova formerly headed RT France and now contributes to CNews, Europe 1 and Le Journal du Dimanche; her employer condemned the expulsion order.
- A van struck people near Berlin’s Christopher Street Day celebrations, killing one person and injuring 29, authorities said.
- Police fatally shot the suspected driver in Spandau after he approached officers carrying a bladed weapon, authorities said.
- Firefighters tried to resuscitate the suspect, who later died from his injuries, Berlin police said.