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AMMAN: Ahmed Safadi, the speaker of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Jordanian parliament, on Wednesday met the Kuwaiti ambassador to Jordan, Hamad Rashid Al-Marri, to discuss relations between the nations’ parliaments. Safadi offered his condolences to Kuwait and its people for the death in December of the country’s emir, Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah.

The assassinations bear the marks of an Israeli operation. But the timing might also be about Israeli domestic politics.

Scale of damage to roads and poor weather hamper relief efforts, three days after quake off Noto Peninsula.

Papers include names of dozens of powerful men who associated with financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

TEHRAN: Iranian authorities have arrested four people on suspicion of selling contaminated bootleg alcohol that killed at least three people, Iranian media reported Wednesday. The sale and consumption of alcohol has been banned in Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution, leading to a huge illicit trade in bootleg products, some of them adulterated with poisonous methanol. “Three people have died of alcohol poisoning due to the consumption of counterfeit beverages,” said Saber Jafari, prosecutor for the city of Maku in the northwestern province of West Azerbaijan.

As the war enters is 680th day, these are the main developments.

The Houthis have argued that their attacks on ship linked to Israel are an act of solidarity with Gaza.