Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Noraram.
For the first time in the war near Iran, Israel has attacked a civilian oil facility in
Iran, firing missiles at oil depots in and around the capital, Tehran. Residents report fires spread to shops and homes nearby. Israeli President Isaac Herzog says Israel has a right to defend itself. For a generation plus, Iran has been spreading, terror and havoc all over the world.
“And I think now there's a coalition of nations in the region who says to Iran, it's”
over, out, unacceptable, supported by President Donald Trump and his immense leadership. We're doing this for the well-being of the entire free world, Europe being the first one. He was interviewed on the BBC. Attacks by Iran and its paramilitary proxies have intensified in Iraq and the country's Kurdistan region.
The missile strike on the U.S. base at Erbil's International Airport killed a Kurdish security member while rockets hit the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad yesterday. NPR's Jane of Raff has more in the story. Iran and the Iraqi militias at Bax hit a hotel used by the UN in the city of Salomonia, as well as a brigade of Kurdish fighters and an Iranian opposition base near the Kurdistan region's
second city, Kamala, an Iranian armed opposition group said its base near Salomonia was hit
by a missile Saturday, killing one of its fighters and wounding another.
“In the regional capital, Erbil, grown attacks at the airport compound where U.S. forces”
are based, killed a member of the region's internal security forces, the provincial governor told NPR. The Iraqi government pledged to arrest militia members at Bland for rocket attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad Saturday. NPR News Erbil, President Trump says he won't sign any bills until Congress passes
the Save America Act, which requires proof of citizenship for voter registration. NPR's Luke Garrett reports. In a social media post Sunday, Trump pushed the GOP-controlled Senate to skirt its 60-vote threshold to move most legislation. It's a requirement that necessitates some democratic buy-in.
He won't send it majority leader, John Thun, of South Dakota, to sidestepped democratic opposition to pass the Save America Act by simple majority.
“The bill would require voter identification and proof of citizenship for voting.”
Most states already require some form of ID. But Thun has said setting aside this 60-vote threshold doesn't have support in the GOP conference. Trump has long railed baselessly against corrupt U.S. elections. Voter fraud in the U.S. is extremely rare, and states run elections. In 2020, Trump attempted to overturn his election loss, courts rejected every effort to challenge
the results. Luke Garrett and PR News. Sermonton, Selma Alabama marks bloody Sunday today when civil rights activists were beaten by state troopers in 1965. Today's activists will welcome across the same bridge in support of voting rights.
This is NPR News. Norwegian police are investigating an explosion outside the U.S. Embassy in Oslo, the early this morning. No injuries were reported. Officials believe the embassy was the target.
Police are searching for those responsible. It doesn't grab the headlines like the Olympics, the Paralympics or Soccer's World Cup. But Britain's annual wife-carrying race was run today, before an enthusiastic crowd. Vicky Barker reports from London.
Last year's wife-carrying race brought a second-strait victory to home-grown competitors.
Stuart Johnson and Hattie Cronin, but they faced strong competition in a couple from thin land where the sport is said to have originated. It's a grueling event. The often-constumed competitors have to sling their wife husband, partner or friend over their shoulder, leap over straw bales and be peltered with water by spectators who are
encouraged to bring their own water pistols. Though the UK practice reportedly dates back to Viking times, the first world championships took place in Finland 30 years ago. For NPR News, I'm Vicky Barker, in London. It is international women's day observed every March 8th by the UN to celebrate women for
their achievements. This year's theme is "rights justice action for all women and girls" to emphasize the urgent need to address intense inequalities around the world. The UN estimates that women still enjoy only 64% of the legal rights that men enjoy worldwide. I'm Laura Rom, NPR News in Washington.
