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Get full access to Reuters.com for just $1/week. Subscribe now. Daily Briefing By Kate Turton Hello. Iran strikes Tel Aviv with cluster warheads, US drivers face long-term pain at the pump, and these are the Ukrainian interceptor drones wanted around the Gulf. Plus, the Chinese university telling students to 'fall in love' during spring break. Today's Top News   A boy sits on a wall near debris at the site of an Israeli strike, Zuqaq al-Blat district in central Beirut, Lebanon, March 18, 2026. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi  War in the Middle East Israeli warplanes hit central Beirut as a defiant Iran said Israel's killing of security chief Ali Larijani and other key officials would not hinder its operations. The death of Larijani, one of Tehran's most powerful figures, may complicate any potential negotiations. Ed Blair tells the Reuters World News podcast his loss from Iran's power structure creates a vacuum that may make de-escalation efforts difficult. President Donald Trump and his allies are attacking news organizations for their coverage of the Iran war. Meanwhile, senators will grill Trump's intelligence team as the Senate intelligence committee holds its ‌annual hearing on worldwide threats to the US. In other news Families and friends of people who were under treatment at a rehab center in the Afghan capital Kabul searched for their loved ones, two days after it was bombed by Pakistan in the deadliest incident in the months long conflict between the neighbors. Once a long-shot concept, the interceptor drone developed by private firm Wild Hornets is now key to Ukraine's defense against Russian ‌drones - and soon, possibly, to combatting Iranian ones in the Gulf. We take a closer look at the drones. Leaders of France and Germany will discuss the crisis-hit ‌FCAS fighter program on the sidelines of a European Union summit, three people familiar with the matter said. Vaccination rates among young children in Michigan dropped sharply during the first year of the Trump administration, providing an early indication of how vaccine-skeptic Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is influencing immunization practices in the US. Trump has offered competing narratives on Cuba: one of dialogue with the longtime rival, one of confrontation. Cubans on the streets of Havana showed a preference for the former. Business & Markets   Rising concern about higher inflation from surging oil prices is not going to press the Federal Reserve into an interest rate hike, but the idea could still find its way to the surface at a policy meeting overshadowed by the start of the Iran conflict just over two weeks ago. Trump and congressional Republicans are betting the oil-price shock sparked by the Iran crisis will be too short-lived to hurt them politically in November, but traders and industry analysts see signs that US pump prices will stay painfully high long after any diplomatic breakthrough. A key plank of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's climate plan will likely miss its target implementation date, industry sources said, raising new doubts about Canada meeting its environmental goals in the face of higher oil prices and uncertain US trade policy. Some coffee industry experts have been drawing comparisons between the coffee and cocoa markets, projecting that coffee prices will sink in coming months, just as cocoa prices crashed after the chocolate-making ‌ingredient hit an all-time high in 2024. US tech giant Meta has repeatedly failed to stop illegal ads for high-risk financial products running on its platforms in Britain, despite committing to block them, according to a review by the country's financial regulator. Read our exclusive. Josh D'Amaro officially assumes his new role as Disney's chief executive officer at today's annual shareholder meeting, taking the helm of the entertainment colossus at a time of profound change. In Lebanon, war dictates pace of Ramadan for displaced families   Salam Issa Rida and her family break their fast at iftar during Ramadan, as they shelter at Camille Chamoun Stadium, in Beirut, Lebanon. REUTERS/Claudia Greco. Near the tent she now calls home, Salam Issa Rida dropped pieces of marinated chicken into a pan sizzling atop a camping stove. Her family had been craving chicken to break their daily fast during the holy month of Ramadan. So she had risked her life to get it. Displaced Lebanese have tried to keep as many of their treasured Ramadan customs as possible, but in Lebanon, where armed group Hezbollah and the Israeli military have been trading blows, the pace of this holy month has been defined more than ever by Israeli air strikes and orders to leave home. View our photo essay And Finally... A couple during their wedding photoshoot near the Forbidden City, Beijing, China. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang  A Chinese university is urging students to "enjoy the flowers, fall in love" during their mid-term break, an unusual directive in a nation obsessed with getting good grades, as authorities seek new ways to spur marriages ‌and domestic consumption. "See the flowers and enjoy romance" is the theme for the spring holidays from April 1 to 6, the Sichuan Southwest Vocational College of Aviation said on its official Wechat account. 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