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both sides are trading strikes with Iran targeting U.S. embassy and Baghdad today. President
“Trump is warning that oil infrastructure on a key Iranian island would be next if Iran”
continues to interfere with shipping through the state or for moves." He says U.S. strikes yesterday destroyed military targets on the island. It appears our Zubra's fawny reports.
Mark Island sits 15 miles off Iran's coast and is critical to Iran's oil infrastructure
and the country's economy, roughly 90 percent of Iran's export crude oil passes through the island. In a truth-social post on Friday, President Trump said that while the U.S. had hit military targets, he had "chosen not to wipe out the oil infrastructure." Trump added that he'd reconsider that decision if Iran continues interfering with ships passing through the state of Hormuz. In response, Iran's military has threatened to turn oil and energy
firms in the region that work with the U.S. into, quote, "a pile of ashes." Oil prices have jumped more than 40 percent since the start of the war. Our Zubra's fawny and PR News Erbil in the Kurdistan region of Iran.
“"India says two of its tankers have crossed the state of Hormuz after being granted permission”
by Iran, and in officials say the vessels were carrying liquified, petroleum gas, and
were headed to Indian ports. The crossing to the critical shipping route followed in ten
side-level talks between Delhi and Tehran, the BBC's Enmec-Milium has details." Iran has all but closed the state of Hormuz by threatening to attack ships passing through it. The narrow waterway between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula links the oil producing Gulf to global shipping routes. But Tehran has now permitted two Indian tankers safely through. Iran's ambassador to India said the two countries were friends with shared interests.
Iran beset by years of international sanctions because of its nuclear program relies heavily on oil exports to China in particular, but also to India. The BBC's Enmec-Milium reporting there are the White House's investigating the possibility of imposing tariffs on goods from 60 economies. This is the second set of investigations.
“The administration announced this week under a statute meant to combat unfair trading practices”
in Pyrus Daniel Kurtz-Lavin. The 60 economies will be investigated specifically related to forced labor, not necessarily the practice itself, but to what degree those foreign governments import goods produced with forced labor. Major trading partners, including China, the EU and Mexico, are on the investigation list. Earlier this week, the administration announced investigations into those countries and others in relation to other trading practices.
The White House is exploring these new tariffs after the Supreme Court last month found in many of Trump's tariffs to be unconstitutional. The investigations can take months to complete. The U.S. Trade Representative will hold hearings on these new investigations in a month and a half. Daniel Kurtz-Lavin and Pyr News. And this is in Pyr News. Strong storms last night left hundreds of thousands without power
from Wisconsin and Michigan to Virginia and New York. Ohio is the hardest hit according to poweroutage.us, more than a quarter million customers remain without power on Ohio. Hawaii is under a state of emergency from what's called a colonist or mid-began dumping rain on the islands this week. The Justice Department is moving to dismiss charges against an army veteran deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, who set fire to an American flag near
the White House last year. Jay Carrey of Arden, North Carolina was arrested in August after he set fire to a flag on the same day that President Trump signed an executive order requiring the Justice Department to prosecute people for flag burning. DOJ moved to dismiss two misdemeanors on Friday. For answers returning a sacred drum to Ivory Coast stolen during the West African nation's colonial era, the return part of a near decade long reparation
effort has Michael Coloky reports. The Wooden Drum known as Gigi Ayokwe or Panther Lion was looted by French colonial authorities in 1916 and is among several stolen artifacts that Ivory Coast has asked France to return. The drum which weighs about 950 pounds and is just under 12 feet long is referred to as a talking drum and was once used by the Achan community in Ivory Coast to communicate between
villages. The repatriation of the Gigi Ayokwe is part of broader efforts announced by French President Emmanuel Macron eight years ago to return artifacts taken from African countries during the colonial era. The drum is expected to go on display at a museum in Ivory Coast's commercial capital Abizion for NPR News on Michael Coloky in Nairobi. "Can you believe I'm just hired a new chef who is very consistent?"
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