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Up until Saturday's missile launch, the Iranian-backed Houthis had stayed out of this war.
But a Houthi spokesman says attacks will continue until, quote, the aggression on all resistant fronts stops.
The Yemen-based rebels were active during Israel's war in Gaza, firing on cargo ships in the Red Sea and disrupting global commercial traffic.
Iran hit multiple sites around Tel Aviv and Jerusalem Saturday.
Israel's military says Iran is increasingly using cluster bombs.
Designed to detonate at high altitude, the munition disperses multiple smaller bombs that are more challenging for Israel's multi-layered air defense system to intercept and can cause damage over a wider area.
Dozens of countries have signed on to a cluster munitions treaty ban, except Iran, Israel, and the U.S.
Carrie Khan, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
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59-year-old José Antonio Kast's ultra-conservative stances, especially on women's issues and his support of the Pinochet dictatorship,
were too hardline in his two previous presidential bids.
This time, he focused more on concerns over crime and rising migration, especially from Venezuela.
In a meandering hour-long acceptance speech, he told a huge crowd in Santiago that change was coming, but said it would take time.
Like other recently elected conservatives in Latin America, Cass pledged a crackdown on crime with more police and prisons.
He says the more than 300,000 migrants estimated to live in Chile without legal status have until his inauguration in March to self-deport, or he'll send police to find them.
President Trump has been weighing military options against Venezuela.
He says discussion with Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro may be coming and that the Venezuelans, quote, would like to talk.