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Our top stories. Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's Prime Minister, ordered the Israeli Defence Forces

to expand its existing security zone in southern Lebanon.

Israel has sent more soldiers across the border in recent days to suppress Hezbollah,

a Shia militia fighting on behalf of Iran.

On March 24th, Israel Kant, the defense minister, suggested that the IDF should go as far as the Latani, a river 20 miles north of the border. The Speaker of Iran's parliament said that America is secretly planning a ground invasion and that Iran is waiting. On Saturday, about 3,500

American Marines and sailors arrived in the Middle East on board the USS Tripoli, an amphibious warship.

America's Central Command announced that, one month into the war, its forces had struck

more than 11,000 Iranian targets and damaged 150 vessels.

French officials said that two more people had been arrested in connection with a thwarted

attempt to bomb Bank of America's headquarters in Paris on Saturday. One was arrested at the

scene after planting five litres of liquid and an ignition device near the building, according

to Ajean's France-Presse. Laurent Nunes, the Interior Minister, Spendorne... After planting five litres of liquid and an ignition device near the building, according to

Agenz-France-Presse, Laurent Nunez, the Interior Minister, speculated that the attack could

be linked to the Iran War.

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