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The Iraqi government is raising concerns about the risk of thousands of ISIS detainees escaping.
“They were transferred to Iraq last month by U.S. forces from Syria.”
Officials say there were six attacks Saturday on the Baghdad Airport compound where the prisoners are now being held, and PR's Janner Raph reports." The U.S. military transported more than 5,000 accused ISIS fighters from northeastern Syria to Baghdad in March. That's when Syrian Kurdish forces were in danger of losing control of the prisons after Syrian
government forces advanced and took over Kurdish health territory. Iran and Iran backed militias in Iraq have been attacking the airport. In retaliation for U.S. attacks on Iran and its proxies, Iraq's Justice Ministry says some of the strike Saturday landed very close to the prison, and it's concerned about the security of the facility.
Janner Raph and PR News in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Major oil importing nations are cautiously reacting to President Trump's request that they send warships to help reopen the state of Hormuz, which Iran has largely closed. So far, the United Kingdom has given the U.S. only limited assistance as the war enters its third week.
The British Minister for Energy Security at Miliband told the BBC all options are on the table. You can rest assured that any options that can help to get the straight reopened are being looked at in concert with our allies. But as I say, we don't want a nuclear Iran, but ending this conflict is the best and
sureest way to get the straight reopen. President Trump is also urging China, France, Japan, and South Korea to send their warships
“to the straight of Hormuz to help secure the key shipping route.”
Iran's foreign minister has said the straight is open to all, except America, or its allies. Photers and France are going to the polls today to elect mayors in cities across the country
with a second round of voting later this month.
And PR's owner Beardsley reports the two round municipal elections may be an indicator 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 as political analysts, Jean-Yves Camus. What will be looked at very closely is the network of cities, one by those of the radical
left and the radical rise, those 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 parisions 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. This is NPR News in Washington. It's a discovery only fitting for Britain's longest-running sci-fi series about a time traveler
to missing episodes of Dr. Who have been found more than 60 years after they aired. Brian Bull of Member Station, KLCC, reports. The BBC says the episodes belong to the cease-collector inside film camps wrapped in plastic.
Now restored, the two shows which first aired in 1965 will be shown again on the BBC's
streaming service. They feature actor William Hartz-Nell as the inaugural time-lard, pitted against his genocidal foes the Daleks. Before Dr. Who became a worldwide phenomenon, many early episodes were taped over. The film charity Filmas Fabulous found the episodes titled The Nightmare Beginns and Devil's
Planet. There are still 95 episodes of Dr. Who missing from the series which premiered in 1963. For NPR News, I'm Brian Bull in Eugene, Oregon. The Trump administration is stepping up its efforts to replace roughly $1.6 trillion in tariff revenue loss after the Supreme Court struck down a broad range of the President's
import taxes. Experts say recovering that money, which the White House hoped would help offset the steep cost of its tax cuts, is expected to be difficult and time-consuming. Officials are now relying on the different legal authorities to impose new duties, but those provisions involve complex processes that allow US companies to seek exemptions.
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