## US orders 2,200 Marines on three warships to Middle East

Authored by iranintl.com

This contrasts with how Tehran supplied large quantities of armed drones and ballistic missiles to Russia in its war against Ukraine.

Russia has long supplied Tehran with surveillance and repression technologies used to prevent domestic unrest.

This support may have contributed to the Islamic Republic’s ability to survive the killing of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and many other top leaders—at least so far.

T. hese attacks may have been undertaken in hopes of giving some of America’s Middle East partners an incentive to press Washington and Israel to halt strikes on Iran so Tehran would stop targeting them.

This points to a larger tension: while Moscow and Tehran are both strongly anti-American, their interests are not fully aligned.

He would not want to provoke renewed large-scale US military support for Kyiv by appearing to obstruct Washington’s campaign against Tehran.

For Putin, the war’s advantages are real—but they are likely to diminish the longer it lasts. »

### Senate passes major housing affordability bill by Elizabeth Warren and Tim Scott

Authored by nbcnews.com

Scott is the chairman of the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, and Warren is the ranking member.

Such a big, bipartisan vote is increasingly unusual in Congress and the bill aims to tackle a major affordability issue for voters ahead of the midterm elections.

“If I told you that Tim Scott and Elizabeth Warren walked into a bar, it sounds like the beginning of a bad joke,” he said. »

### Overwatch co-creator Jeff Kaplan on his exit from Activision Blizzard: 'It was the biggest f**k you moment I've had in my career'

Authored by pcgamer.com

Overwatch co-creator Jeff Kaplan was the public face of Overwatch before he left Activision Blizzard in 2021.

"Where it got away from us is that there was a lot of excitement about Overwatch League, like too much," Kaplan said.

"And so all your plans [for Overwatch content] at that point kinda go out the window," Kaplan said. »

### U.S. military says all 6 airmen in refueling aircraft that crashed in Iraq are dead

Authored by pbs.org

All 6 crew aboard a U.S. KC-135 refueling aircraft that crashed in Iraq are dead, the U.S. military said Friday.

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The military said the loss of the aircraft was "not due to hostile or friendly fire. »

### All games with loot boxes in them will be rated minimum PEGI 16, starting this summer

Authored by videogameschronicle.com

The European game ratings board announced today that starting in June it will be introducing a number of minimum age ratings for games with certain ‘interactive risk’ features.

Games with “paid random items” – generally described as loot boxes – will have a default rating of PEGI 16, meaning they can’t legally be sold to children 15 or under in the UK or any other European country which has adopted PEGI ratings into its legislation.

“In some cases, they can be a PEGI 18,” it adds, though it doesn’t specify which conditions trigger this. »

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