Iranians are expected to gather nationwide on Monday afternoon to pledge allegiance to new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, a hard-line regime insider deeply intertwined with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps whose rise sends a strong message of defiance against the United States. Hours after Iran named its new supreme leader, the IRGC announced more missile strikes across the region. On Monday, Israel said it had launched a new wave of “wide-scale” strikes across Iran, targeting Tehran, Isfahan and sites in the country’s south. Iran rallies behind new supreme leader Return to menuIran announced a nationwide gathering Monday to pledge allegiance to Mojtaba Khamenei — the 56-year-old second son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in Tehran on Feb. 28 — as the new supreme leader. Before the announcement, Trump said the new supreme leader “is not going to last long” without U.S. approval, and Israel’s military vowed to target any successor to the late ayatollah.

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Some flights resume in Qatar after thousands strandedRegional conflict has triggered the biggest disruption to air travel across the Gulf since the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 8,000 passengers have been stranded in Qatar since the conflict began on February 28 after the country closed its airspace. Airlines are now beginning to reopen limited routes. CNN's Bijan Hosseini is at Doha’s Hamad International Airport where Qatar Airways is operating flights to help stranded travelers finally get home.

How AI is disrupting art historyArtificial intelligence could play a growing role in the art market, where a change in attribution can increase — or decrease — a painting’s value by millions of dollars. While many art historians remain skeptical about whether the technology has any place in their field, champions of the technology argue that machines can see patterns the human eye can't. CNN's Oscar Holland explains.

A 35-year-old Florida woman armed with an AR-15 style weapon fired several shots into the Beverly Hills-area home of pop star Rihanna on Sunday, and a round penetrated a wall of the mansion, a law enforcement source told The Times. The pop star was home, the source said. The suspect, Ivana Ortiz, of Orlando, had several prior arrests in her home state, according to public records reviewed by The Times. Police found bullet holes in a gate at Rihanna’s home and in an RV parked in the driveway, he said. AdvertisementThe pop star reportedly lives in a colonial-style mansion in the Beverly Hills Post Office neighborhood with ASAP Rocky.

Some flights resume in Qatar after thousands strandedRegional conflict has triggered the biggest disruption to air travel across the Gulf since the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 8,000 passengers have been stranded in Qatar since the conflict began on February 28 after the country closed its airspace. Airlines are now beginning to reopen limited routes. CNN's Bijan Hosseini is at Doha’s Hamad International Airport where Qatar Airways is operating flights to help stranded travelers finally get home.

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Planetary warming has significantly accelerated over the past 10 years, with temperatures rising at a higher rate since 2015 than in any previous decade on record, a new study showed. This is the first statistically significant evidence of an acceleration of global warming, the authors said. In 2024, warming went past 1.5C, the lower limit set by the Paris Agreement. But record-breaking temperatures in recent years have led scientists to question whether the pace of temperature gains is accelerating. “How quickly the Earth continues to warm ultimately depends on how rapidly we reduce global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels to zero.”Millan writes for Bloomberg.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGThis article features advice from Dr Emily Crosby, a child and educational psychologist, as well as experts from Save The Children and NSPCC. “It’s important to be mindful of how much news exposure you provide children,” Dr Crosby said, as this could lead to further distress and misinformation. AdvertisementStay calm in this discussion and model the behaviour you want to see, experts at Save The Children added. “Focus on what they can control and what they cannot control,” Dr Crosby said. Save The Children added that it’s important we are “careful not to over-explain the situation or go into too much detail as this can make children unnecessarily anxious”.

A new study of over 130,000 participants has suggested it could slow brain ageing and reduce dementia risk, too. In this study, “moderate” caffeine consumption was about two to three cups of coffee a day, or one to two cups of tea daily. AdvertisementEven in the “high” consumption bracket, though (up to five cups of coffee a day), dementia risk seemed to be 18% lower. Does that mean drinking coffee will definitely lower my dementia risk? This was an observational study, which only showed a link between coffee consumption and dementia.

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Oil and gas prices surged Monday as the Middle East war roils energy markets, forcing major producers to shut down output while the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively closed. The global benchmarks reached their highest levels since 2022 earlier in the session, touching $119.50 and $103.67 a barrel, respectively. Over the weekend, Kuwait began cutting production at some oil fields, becoming the latest regional supplier to rein in output after Iraq and Qatar. “The combination of these production shut-ins and no signs of de-escalation in the war means the market is having to aggressively price in a prolonged supply disruption,” said Warren Patterson, head of commodities strategy at ING. European LNG prices climbed 67% last week, the largest weekly gain since the energy crisis in 2022.

Some flights resume in Qatar after thousands strandedRegional conflict has triggered the biggest disruption to air travel across the Gulf since the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 8,000 passengers have been stranded in Qatar since the conflict began on February 28 after the country closed its airspace. Airlines are now beginning to reopen limited routes. CNN's Bijan Hosseini is at Doha’s Hamad International Airport where Qatar Airways is operating flights to help stranded travelers finally get home.

“Just give me a good interpreter. I may not speak the language but I know I had an interpreter recently that wasn’t good. When you go ‘Uh, uh, uh,’ when I give a long, flowing beautiful sentence and in this case it was a woman and she gave it in about 1/4 the time. When you don’t speak the language, they don’t speak the language. People have no idea how valuable a good interpreter is.”