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Good morning.

This is send seven world news in seven minutes.

I'm Stephen Devon Genzi.

Today is Monday, the 16th of March, 2026.

Starting in Asia today in Iran,

the United States has said that it has bombed military

installations on Carg Island,

which is Iran's biggest oil transportation point.

The US military said that it had not targeted oil infrastructure.

However, President Donald Trump said

that the oil infrastructure would be hit next

if Iran didn't stop attacking ships

in the strait of Hormuz.

Iran has effectively blocked the strait of Hormuz

over the last two weeks by attacking oil tankers

and cargo ships traveling through it or near it.

And there have been some reports that Iran

has laid explosive mines in the strait.

Many Gulf countries require the strait of Hormuz

to export oil and around 20% of the world's oil

travels through it.

Israel said that it targeted many areas

in Western Iran yesterday.

Al-Jazeera reported that 15 people were killed

in the city of Isfahan.

Israel told more people in Lebanon's capital

Beirut to evacuate yesterday.

Lebanon's health ministry has said that 850 people,

including 100 children, have been killed

in Israeli air strikes over the last two weeks.

In Iraq, the US Embassy in Baghdad has been hit by a missile,

probably fired by Iran-supported militias in Iraq,

which were attacked by the US over the last few days.

The United Arab Emirates has said that its main oil port

was hit by an Iranian drone on Saturday,

but it is still operating.

In Kuwait, an Iranian drone damaged a radar system

at Kuwait International Airport and injured soldiers

at a Kuwaiti air base.

Car Racing Championship Formula One

has cancelled Grand Prix races in Saudi Arabia

and Bahrain, that were scheduled for April.

Australia has said that three members

of the Iranian women's football team

have decided to return to Iran,

meaning that now only three are still

in Australia seeking asylum.

In North Korea, state media has released photographs

of leader Kim Yong-un and his daughter,

who is believed to be about 13 years old,

firing guns together.

In Japan, the share price of the gaming company Nintendo

has risen by 20% in the last few days,

reportedly as a result of the fast sale

of millions of copies of the new Nintendo Switch 2 game,

Pokemon Pokopia.

Pakistan has said that it has bombed military installations

of Afghanistan's Taliban and terrorist groups

working from Afghanistan.

Reuters has reported that four people

were killed near Kabul.

Kandahar Airport said that a fuel depot

had been destroyed, which was used by all aircraft,

including United Nations and Red Crescent Aircraft.

Pakistan said that the Afghan Taliban

had fired drones into Pakistan on Friday night.

In Palestine, in the West Bank,

a husband and wife and two children

were shot dead in a car by Israeli soldiers on Saturday,

according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

Israel has said that the car accelerated

towards the soldiers who felt threatened

and started shooting.

Africa, Ugandan opposition leader, Bobby Wein,

has said that he has left Uganda.

Wein has been in hiding for two months

since the presidential election,

which opposition parties and rights groups say are rigged

in favor of President Yoydi Musevani,

who has ruled Uganda since 1986.

In a video released on social media in English and Swahili,

Wein said that the security forces had harassed

and arrested his wife, his assistants and other supporters,

and that the state had wasted a lot of money trying to find him,

but that many Ugandans had helped him to hide

before he left the country.

I thank all of you, fellow Ugandan Swah,

concealed and protected me for all this time

when the regime was looking for me.

Those of you who fed me, those who clothed me,

and those who offered me shelter,

it's laughable that for almost two months,

the entire security apparatus of Uganda

has invested billions of taxpayers' money

to suck for me everywhere, but they failed to get me.

Why?

Because the people have protected me.

Now, I want to say this again to you, fellow citizens.

We won the 2026 presidential election.

We won it, and Musevani rigged it,

and that is why, out of Shema and lack of legitimacy,

he and his son are searching for me everywhere.

Kot Divwa has received a secret artifact,

which was taken by France 110 years ago.

French colonial authorities took the Gigi Ayakwe talking drum

in 1916.

It has now been moved from the Bronley-Jacques-Shirac Museum

in Paris to the Museum of Civilizations in Abidjan.

Kot Divwa.

America's Venezuela and the United States

have restarted diplomatic relations.

The US flag was flown yesterday at the US Embassy in Caracas

for the first time since 2019.

Ecuador has imposed a nighttime curfew in four provinces,

saying that this is intended to help military operations

against criminal gangs.

Europe, in Ukraine, close to the capital Kiev,

five people were killed during drone and missile strikes.

On Saturday, officials have said in the Northern Chernihiv region

and southern Saporizia region, deaths were also confirmed.

In Donetsk, two medics were killed when an ambulance was hit by a drone.

Ukraine has used long-range drones to hit Russian oil production

and storage facilities and airfields in various locations

in Russia over the last few days.

In France, there were local elections yesterday

for city councillors and mayors

at the time of recording this episode votes were being counted.

And lifelong brain exercises can lower the risk of Alzheimer's

and dementia, a recent study of a thousand people

at Rush University in the United States has shown.

It has often been said that mental exercises,

like doing crossword puzzles, is good for slowing cognitive decline.

However, this study said that the benefits are greater

when people participate in what the study calls lifelong learning,

like reading and writing, solving puzzles,

learning a language, playing chess,

and studying throughout many years,

being physically healthy also helps to slow cognitive decline.

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