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The war in the Middle East is escalating with strikes on critical infrastructure.
“For the first time in the war, Israel has targeted Iranian oil storage facilities in Tyran,”
Tyran, and Iran has attacked a desalination plant in Bahrain. NPR's Daniel Esthern reports. This appears to be the first time Israel has targeted a civilian oil facility in Iran. Iranian news agency reported, at least four tanker drivers were killed. The Israeli military says Iran made frequent use of that oil storage facility to operate
military infrastructure. Iran's foreign minister said a US air strike damaged Iranian desalination plant for the first time. Also for the first time in the Gulf, a desalination plant in Bahrain was damaged in Iranian drone attack.
These attacks on energy and water infrastructure are a significant escalation in the war. The region depends on desalinated sea water for drinking water, and much of the world relies on oil from the Gulf. Daniel Esthern and PR News, Tel Aviv.
“People from around the country are in Stelma, Alabama today, to commemorate the 1965”
bloody Sunday March for voting rights. Some participants say that voting rights are now under threat today. The original marchers were met by the clubs with Alabama State Troopers who beat domestic and protesting for voting rights. March participants, like COVID-19, see new threats to the Voting Rights Act being pushed
by Congress in the White House. If you noted history of what happened 61 years ago, and what we have now in politics would very try to erase African-American history, this right here is proof that it needs to stay. The marchers are calling on Congress to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, a bill that would restore some protections to the Voting Rights Act that we can buy to Supreme
Court. For NPR News, I'm Dishon Cottrell, in Selma, Alabama. A federal judge has struck down Trump administration official Kerry Lakes Actions to dismantle
“the voice of America, saying she doesn't have the legal”
authority to do so. NPR is David Folk and Flick reports. Lake sought to lay off more than 1,000 journalists from the U.S. owned global network and its sister network serving Cuba, and she tried to kill federal funding for radio free Asia and radio free Europe radio liberty.
NPR first reported on the legality of Lake Stadis last August.
For example, we repeatedly asked for any evidence. She had been named acting CEO of the agency by President Trump as required for that job. None arrived. U.S. District Court Judge Roy C. Lamberth wrote that Lake Quote satisfies the requirements of neither the statute nor the Constitution.
Lake tells NPR that Lamberth is an activist judge trying to stand in the way of Trump's agenda. David Folk and Flick and PR News. This is NPR News in Washington. A Malaysian plane disappeared 12 years ago over the Indian Ocean.
It was carrying 239 people, their families today, as the government, to renew a contract with marine robotics company to keep looking. Ocean Infinity has surveyed thousands of square kilometers of the ocean floor with no luck. The Broadway League says nearly 20% of theater tickets are being bought by people attending
musicals in place on their own. That's double what it was a few years ago. As NPR's Chloe Feldman reports, a theater operator is now taking steps to actively encourage audience members to go solo. Sixty people signed up for live theater operator ATG Entertainment's inaugural solo seats
event in San Francisco recently. The tickets included a discounted orchestra seat for the Broadway musical The Notebook on Tour, a pre-show mixer with other solo seats and a free drink. There to go, Maria Saccada says this is her first time seeing a live show on her own. Social psychologist Bella de Paolo says solo leisure is booming, allowing to rising
economic independence and longer life-expectancies. ATG says it plans to expand solo seats nationwide, Chloe Valtman MP on news. It is International Women's Day observed every March 8th by the United Nations, to celebrate women for their achievements. This year's theme is rights, justice, action for all women and girls, to emphasize the need
to address inequalities.
The UN estimates women still enjoy only 64 percent of the legal rights of men.
I'm Nora Rom, NPR News.
