WORLD Radio News - WORLD Radio News: 3-9-26 (1/3)

Episode Date: March 9, 2026

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With World Radio News, I'm Mark Mellinger. A seventh American service member has died from combat injuries sustained in the U.S. Israeli conflict with Iran. U.S. officials say an army soldier stationed in Saudi Arabia has died from injuries suffered there during an Iranian attack on March 1st. The death toll from what's known in the U.S. as Operation Epic Fury keeps climbing besides at least 1,000 30 deaths in Iran, at least 300 people have been killed in Lebanon, where the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah is trading attacks with Israel. Around a dozen people in Israel have been killed. Meanwhile, Iranian state TV has announced the late Ayatollah Ali Hameini's hardliner son,

Mojtaba Hameini, is succeeding him as Iran's supreme leader. The defiant move goes against what President Trump wanted. Trump is demanding an unconditional surrender from Iran, but Iranian foreign minister Abbas Arachi says that's not happening. Well, they have to explain why they started this aggression before we come to the point to even consider a ceasefire. Arachi on NBC's Meet the Press, Republican Louisiana Senator John Kennedy restated part of the rationale given several times publicly by the Trump administration. Iran had taken baby steps to restart its nuclear program. Its plan was to stockpile enough missiles so that it could destroy the,

Middle East. Kennedy on Fox News Sunday, President Trump says Epic Fury will continue until Iran can't fight anymore. Crews are surveying the damage in Oklahoma and Michigan after tornadoes roared through late last week, killing at least six people and leaving more than a dozen hurt. Among those killed, Jody Owens and her 13-year-old daughter Lexi in Major County, Oklahoma. Jody's brother Justin Zanz, talked to K-F-O-R-TV. They're amazing people, and anyone who knows them will be devastated by this news. This just feels like a movie. It feels like I've watched a movie and someone, I just don't believe it's real still.

In Union City, Michigan, where at least four people were killed, it was the most violent tornado this early in the year in Michigan's history. Kansas City International Airport is back open after the terminal was shut down for almost three hours Sunday. Police started looking into a potential threat. Sunday morning. This passenger described the scene to KMBC TV. We were waiting to board our plane, and all of a sudden they came on the speaker, and they said, we need everyone to evacuate immediately. Everyone evacuate immediately. Later in the afternoon, the FBI said it had reviewed the threat and found it not to be credible. For World Radio, I'm Mark Millinger. For more,

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