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Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Iraqis says the Strait of Hormuz is open, but not
“to tankers and ships that belong to quote our enemies and their allies.”
There are many tankers and ships who are passing through the site of Hormuz, and I can say that the Strait is not closed, but it is only closed to American Israeli ships and tankers. When questioned about the health of Mojtaba Hormuz, he said to MSNL, "There's no problem with the new Supreme Leader," adding that Islamic Republic is rooted in society and not dependent on a single individual.
But a fifth of the world's supply of liquified natural gas or LNG is still cut off from the world with the Strait of Hormuz still effectively blocked. And Pierre's Julia Simon reports, "U.S. LNG producers are making new deals."
U.S. LNG company Venture Global has announced it's gotten another $8.6 billion in financing
for an LNG export project in Louisiana. After global stock price has risen more than 35 percent since the U.S. is really war with Iran began two weeks ago.
“The U.S. is already the biggest LNG producer in the world, supplying more than half”
of Europe's LNG. While it takes time to build new LNG terminals, energy experts tell NPR, the U.S. LNG industry is seizing this moment while supplies from the Persian Gulf are offline. Julia Simon and Pierre News French voters will go to the polls today to elect Mayors for 36,000 cities large and small
across the country, with a second round of voting later this month.
And Pierre's LNG reports the two round municipal elections may be a harbinger for what's
to come in next year's presidential race. French voters are more fragmented than ever. The center has shrunk and the extremes are growing, says political analyst, Jean-Yves Camus. What will be looked at very closely is the number of cities worn by both the radical left and the radical rise, both are on the rise.
Camus says Marine Le Pen's far-right national rally party is surging and could win three large cities in the south. The far left is aiming for a swath of cities in the north, Paris, which has been governed for the last 25 years by the mainstream left, could possibly swing to the right. Many Parisians are not happy about the eviction of cars from areas of the city to build
hundreds of miles of bike lanes, Eleanor Beardsley and Pierre News Paris. In Italy and in Spain, antiwar protest took place on Saturday, one demonstrator told the AP, the US and Israel are destroying any form of coexistence dictated by international law. This is NPR. The German philosopher, Jurgen Habermas, has died in Starnburg, Germany, southwest of Munich.
He was 96, associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas was a world-renowned thinker on modernity and democracy, as NPR's Chloe Velman reports. Jurgen Habermas was perhaps best known for introducing the concept of the public sphere, a space
“for public discourse beyond stake control and therefore essential to a healthy democracy.”
There's many books, such as the theory of communicative action and between facts and norms, displayed interests that were extremely wide-ranging. George Town University President John DeJoyer introduced the influential thinker before a lecture in 2012. Habermas has been able to go into discussions in political theory, in sociology, in psychology,
in legal theory, in the dozen different disciplines and become one of the dominant voices in each one. Friedrich Ernst Jürgen Habermas was born in 1929 in Düsseldorf into a middle-class Protestant family. A critic of Nazi atrocities, Habermas studied German philosophy and literature in Bonne,
and worked with the Adorno in Frankfurt in the 1950s. Chloe Velman and Pianneus Russia continues its attacks on Ukraine's infrastructure. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Moscow launched more than 400 drone and nearly 70 missile strikes, killing at least four people on Saturday, according to the Associated Press. Roy's reports two additional deaths citing Ukrainian officials and other regions.
At least 15 others were wounded and officials in the Zaporizha region say three people are
in critical condition because of Saturday strikes.
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