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President Trump says the U.S. bombed military sites on an island that's vital to Iran's oil network.
“Trump says the U.S. obliterated targets on Iran's card island, the primary terminal that”
handles the country's oil exports, warning the oil island's oil infrastructure could be next. Russia is welcoming a White House decision to temporarily lift sanctions on some of its oil exports for 30 days. The move-in-packs Russian oil shipments that are already at sea and Piers Charles Mayans
has more. "Kremlin spokesman Demetri Peskov says U.S. and Russian interests are currently aligned in stabilizing world energy markets. Yet Peskov adds it would take significantly more Russian oil to secure global energy costs over the long term.
Meanwhile, the Kremlin's envoy to the White House Couril Demetriv went a step further, writing on social media. Demetriv predicted additional U.S. sanctions relief looked increasingly inevitable. Critics of the change in U.S. policy say it's provided the Kremlin with a windfall
“for its war in Ukraine, at a moment when Russia's economic prospects looked grim.”
Trolls Mayans and PR news. The Pentagon says all six crew members who were aboard the U.S. military refueling plane died in a collision with another plane in Western Iraq.
And Pierskolaan's reports the refueling plane crash landed while the second plane involved
in the collision landed safely. Peskolaan announced that two U.S. refueling tanker aircraft were involved in an incident in friendly airspace. One of them, a KC-135 tanker, went down in Western Iraq, which borders Jordan. The second tanker landed safely.
Peskolaan said there was no hostile or friendly fire involved in the mishab. The KC-135 is used to refuel jets in mid-air, and usually carries a small crew of 3-6 airmen. Rescue operations continued through the night. Control command does not identify fallen troops until 24 hours after next-of-kin have been
notified.
“The Pentagon said bombardment of Iran will continue to intensify, and that U.S. forces”
are targeting Iran's ability to lay minds in the state of Hormuz, where a fifth of the world's oil supply transits. Quillorens and PR news. President Trump signed two executive orders to make housing more affordable, and Piersk even the Sa'hab reports.
One of the orders is all about speeding up home-building, namely through deregulation. The order's different agencies to review or eliminate requirements on things like energy efficiency for home construction. In the streamlined federal approval was around wetlands and stormwater requirements to make it easier to ensure homes.
Trump's second executive order also loosens up rules around mortgages, including making
it easier for smaller banks to give out mortgages. There's also a lot of overlap with the Senate bill. Both use incentives to nudge state and local governments. Judges at that level over zoning rules and building codes can have a much bigger influence on home construction than decisions in Washington.
Steven Bassaha and PR news. You're listening to NPR news from Washington. The Commerce Department's newly released data shows the economy in the fourth quarter of last year didn't grow as much as first thought. The GDP's estimate has been cut to seven tenths of a percent growth down from one
point four percent initial take, consumer spending, after adjusting for inflation, was anemic in January, and hiring is also ground largely to a standstill. The World Health Organization is warning that the expanding conflict in the Middle East is deepening a health crisis across the region, including attacks on health facilities. And here's Fat Matanas has more.
Over the past two weeks since the beginning of the U.S. and is really war with Iran, the WHO says it has verified 18 attacks on health care facilities in Iran, which killed at least eight health workers. In Lebanon, where Israel has increased its bombardment, the WHO says it has documented 25 attacks against health facilities, killing at least 16 health workers.
In a statement that head of the WHO, Tedros Adonom Gabriacis, said health risks work "souring" with hundreds of thousands of people displaced in both countries. He also said medical supply chains were disrupted due to airspace restrictions, causing significant backlogs in health supplies across 25 countries, fat Matanas and PR news. An inflation gauge closely watched by the Federal Reserve, move higher in January, it's
the latest sign that prices were elevated even before the Iran War caused spikes in oil and gas costs.
The Congress Department says prices rose to 0.8 percent in January year over year.
I'm Janine Herbst and PR News in Washington.
