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FILE -A view of the island of Qeshm, which oversees the strategic waterway of the Strait of Hormuz, Iran, on Dec. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

The islands off Iran's southern coast are key to its economy and security. What to know about them

9:39 AM on Thursday, March 12

A top Iranian official is warning that attacks on the Persian Gulf islands that form Iran’s southern maritime frontier would provoke a new level of retaliation

FILE - This May 8, 2019, file photo, shows a sign for Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Angie Wang, File)

Ohio State names provost as new president after predecessor's abrupt resignation

8:10 AM on Thursday, March 12

Ohio State has acted swiftly to move past the abrupt resignation of the university’s president, elevating its chief academic officer into the role

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers a speech during the first plenary sitting of the spring session of parliament in Budapest, Hungary, Monday, Feb. 23, 2026. Behind the premier is Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament Laszlo Kover. (Zoltan Mathe/MTI via AP)

Hungary to declassify security report as Orbán claims Ukraine is illegally funding his opponent

7:53 AM on Thursday, March 12

Hungary’s government says it is declassifying a national security report that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán claims shows his top rival takes illegal money from Ukraine

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7:08 AM on Thursday, March 12

UN refugee agency says up to 3.2 million people in Iran have been displaced by the war

5:54 AM on Thursday, March 12

UN refugee agency says up to 3.2 million people in Iran have been displaced by the war

An instructor from the Ukrainian company General Cherry demonstrates the operation of an anti-air interceptor drone designed to destroy Russian attack drones in Kyiv region, Wednesday, March 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Zelenskyy says Ukraine awaits White House sign-off on US drone production deal

5:34 AM on Thursday, March 12

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he is awaiting White House approval for a major drone production agreement proposed by Kyiv last year

School children visit the National Museum of African American History and Culture's Middle Passage exhibit, behind a wooden timber, the artifact at right, from the slave ship, the São José-Paquete de Africa, Friday, March 6, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

AP Exclusive: Smithsonian museum will revamp its slavery exhibit after artifact loan runs out

5:16 AM on Thursday, March 12

The National Museum of African American History and Culture is removing a rare slave ship timber from its “Slavery and Freedom” exhibit and returning it to South Africa

Iran parliament speaker says any invasion of Iran's islands will 'make the Persian Gulf run with the blood of invaders'

4:38 AM on Thursday, March 12

Iran parliament speaker says any invasion of Iran's islands will 'make the Persian Gulf run with the blood of invaders'

Protesters take to the streets to demonstrate against homosexuality in Dakar, Senegal, Friday, March 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Senegal is the latest African country to toughen punishment for homosexual acts

3:32 AM on Thursday, March 12

Senegal’s parliament has approved a bill that toughens punishment for homosexuality in the largely conservative West African nation

The National Assembly passes a law to implement hundreds of billions of dollars in U.S. investments at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 12 2026. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

South Korean lawmakers pass law to manage Seoul's pledge of $350 billion in US investments

1:53 AM on Thursday, March 12

South Korean lawmakers have passed a law to implement a pledge of $350 billion in U.S. investments Seoul made last year to avoid the Trump administration’s highest tariffs

Damage caused by U.S. and Israeli strikes is seen on the facade of the Qajar-era Golestan Palace in Tehran, Iran, March 3, 2026. (ISNA via AP)

Damage to historical sites in Iran raises alarm about war's impact on protected places

11:07 PM on Wednesday, March 11

U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran have damaged at least four cultural and historical sites across Iran

FILE - A student prepares to leave school, Aug. 13, 2014, southeast of Brookhaven, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

In rural America, a teacher pipeline from abroad starts to dry up

11:03 PM on Wednesday, March 11

Rural school districts say the Trump administration’s visa changes are jeopardizing a key source of teachers

FILE - Ethnic minority delegates wave as they leave after the opening session of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, File)

China adopts an ethnic unity law that critics say will cement assimilation

7:12 PM on Wednesday, March 11

China has adopted a sweeping ethnic unity law that critics say tightens assimilation and weakens minority rights

Rescue workers and residents search through the rubble in the aftermath of a strike on a girls' elementary school in Minab, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. (Abbas Zakeri/Mehr News Agency via AP)

Outdated intel likely led US to carry out deadly strike on Iranian elementary school, AP sources say

6:06 PM on Wednesday, March 11

Outdated intelligence has likely led to the United States carrying out a deadly missile strike on an elementary school in Iran that killed over 165 people, many of them children, in the opening hours of the conflict, according to a U.S. official and a second person briefed on findings of a preliminary U

Richard Khan, Jeffrey Epstein's accountant and co-executor of his estate, arrives for his deposition before the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, March 11, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Epstein's longtime accountant testifies on his wealth and business ties

2:57 PM on Wednesday, March 11

House lawmakers are digging into Jeffrey Epstein’s sprawling financial portfolio

Today in History: March 12, Gandhi begins ‘Salt March’

11:41 PM on Friday, February 27

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