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The widening U.S. Israeli war on Iran shows no signs of slowing down as it enters its
third week."
“President Trump says Tehran asked him for a ceasefire, but Iran's foreign minister again”
today said, "That's not true. This is Israel announced a new barrage of strikes on Western Iran today, and Iran warned people in three major ports in the United Arab Emirates to evacuate." Meanwhile, Trump's calling on other countries to help protect the Strait of Hormuz, but the response so far has been tepid, and Piers Arzu, Rizwani, has more.
Since the start of the war, Iran has blocked some oil tankers and attacked cargo vessels trying to pass through the Strait, which has led to a huge spike in global oil prices. Nearly a fifth of the world's oil supply typically passes through this vital oil export route. The water's off Iran's coast have become a strategic battleground in the war.
The U.S. bombed military targets on Iran's Hark Island Saturday. Trump said the U.S. might hit the island again, quote, "just for fun, if Iran continues
“interfering with ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.”
Arzu, Rizwani, and Piers News, Erbil, and the Kurdistan region of Iraq." Ukraine's President Zelensky says he's being pressured to reopen a Soviet-era oil pipeline that says Russian oil to Moscow, allies, Hungary, and Slovakia. The pipeline was badly damaged earlier this year in a Russian attack, and Zelensky says it will take months to repair.
It also says he doesn't want to do it, saying it would be like lifting economic sanctions on Moscow. Hungary, a European Union member state, is dependent on Russian energy supplies and its
blocking new EU sanctions on Russia, and also a $100 billion loan to Ukraine.
The U.S. has also temporarily lifted sanctions on Russian oil exporters. He is really military, says the man who carried out last week's attack on a Michigan synagogue had a brother who was a Hezbollah commander in Lebanon. Israel says that he was targeted and killed in an air strike, and Piers Daniel Estrin has more from Tel Aviv.
The man who carried out last Thursday's attack on the synagogue in Michigan had learned only a week before that an Israeli air strike had killed his relatives in Lebanon. The man's two brothers, niece, and nephew were killed at the home of the younger brother Ibrahim Razali, the family says. Piers visited the site of the strike and found evidence of a family living there, including
children's toys and sanitary pads. The Israeli military says Ibrahim Razali was targeted at a Hezbollah military site, and that he was a Hezbollah commander from a unit firing rockets at Israel. The Israeli military did not provide evidence and did not mention the others killed in the strike.
A Hezbollah spokesman denied the Israeli claims. Israel says it's targeting Hezbollah after the militant group launched rockets into Israel at the beginning of the war with Iran, Daniel Estrin NPR news Tel Aviv. And you're listening to NPR news from Washington. The 98th annual Academy Awards will be handed out tonight in Los Angeles, and Piers
Mondalito Barco reports Conan O'Brien is hosting the ceremony. The big prize that the Oscars could be a showdown between two of the ten films vying for best picture. The winners, the supernatural thriller said in the Jim Crow South, has a record-breaking 16 nominations.
Ryan Cougler is a for best director, and for best actor, Michael B. Jordan. He plays two roles as a twin smoke and stack. "Be careful, we are." "Sinners is facing one battle after another, which was written directed and produced by Paul Thomas Anderson.
He's nominated as best director, and the film stars best actor nominee Leonardo DiCaprio. He plays a washed-up revolutionary."
“Also competing for best picture are Hamlet, sentimental value, train dreams, the secret”
agent, Bagonia F1, Frankenstein, and Marty Supreme, Mondalito Barco NPR news. At the weekend box office, Pixar's animated hoppers held onto the top spot with an estimated
$28 million in ticket sales in its second weekend.
The film is about a young woman who transforms into the body of a beaver to help defend a pond from development. In second place, Universal's "Reminders of Him," debuted with an estimated $18 million. The film, which cost a reported $25 million to produce, is about a woman attempting to rebuild her life after prison, it's a third calling-gover adaptation to reach the big screen.
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