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Iran is striking energy targets in the Persian Gulf.
“After Israel damaged a key Iranian gas field.”
Global oil and energy prices remain volatile, with oil tankers not passing the state of Hormuz and Pierre's carry-con reports." Dubai reporting heavy explosions there as its air-defense systems engaged in coming missiles and drones. An oil refinery in Kuwait was also hit today, and Qatari officials tally damaged estimates
from an Iranian strike to a major natural gas complex there.
They say it will top $20 billion in last revenue.
The International Energy Agency says it's the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market. It's asking governments, businesses, and households to conserve energy. The cost of oil is nearing $110 a barrel today compared to around 70 before the war. Gas prices in the US are almost $1.00 in the past month.
“PPR is confirmed that more US Marines are headed to the Persian Gulf, and Pierre's”
Quil Lawrence reports. The USS Boxer Group of 3 ships carrying thousands of Marines from the 11th Marine Expeditioner unit has left California, and will take about three weeks to reach the Gulf, according to two US officials who were not authorized to speak publicly. That's in addition to the USS Tripoli Group, with more than 2,000 Marines, expected to
arrive soon from Japan. Uncommed would not comment on the deployment or its mission, but Marines are traditionally ground troops. Also, US Southern Command says it destroyed another small boat in the Eastern Pacific, allegedly carrying drugs.
South com said the strike left three shipwrecked survivors. The USS killed more than 150 people this way since September, in what human rights groups
“say is execution without evidence or trial.”
Quil Lawrence and Pierre News. Marshall Arts star Chuck Norris, who fought his way to fame in such 1980s action movies, as Delta Force Code of Silence and a trilogy of missing in action films has died. He was 86, and Pierre's Bob Mandelo has this remembrance. In a fight Chuck Norris tended to lead with his right.
But, he all betrayed Martha at Roundhouse Kick that villains never seem to see coming.
It served him well in more than two dozen films after his pal Bruce Lee gave him his break as one of many villains in 1972's The Way of the Dragon. In TV, Norris played Sergeant Cordell Walker, a decorated Vietnam vet with Cherokee ancestry in about 200 episodes of Walker, Texas Ranger. Offscreen, he established philanthropies for children and veterans became a nationally syndicated
health and fitness columnist and wrote nine books, including the Conservative Activist Handbook, Black Belt Patriotism, how to re-awaken America. He was also amused to find himself the subject of internet memes. Chuck Norris Facts, that celebrated his supposed toughness with hyperbole. And exaggeration, Bob Mandelo and PR news.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Muslims Around the World Celebrate Eat El Fitter Today, marking the end of Ramadan, worshipers gathered in the Holy City of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It's a time of prayer, celebration, and family to break the fast of Ramadan. The holiday comes as the Middle East is embroiled in the U.S. and Israel's war with Iran.
In Gaza, the holiday comes with tighter Israeli restrictions as NPR's Anas Baba reports. For the past two years, Gaza's streets were required on aid. Children's laughter muted, celebrations postponed and the territory scarred by war. This year, despite continued hardship, a glimpse of joy has returned. There are chocolates in Chopuindos, kids dressed in colorful new clothes and the sound of
eat prayers echoing through the streets. But it's not only in Gaza that aid has changed.
For the first time since 1967, Israeli authorities has barred worshippers from interning
al-Aqsa Moskin, Jerusalem, for eat prayers. Due to what Israel says are tighter restrictions from the war on Iran. Only as far as tear gas at Palestinian's trying to pray in the nearby street, an asbabah and pure news goes a city. Today is the first day of spring.
The southwestern U.S. is sweating through a rare march heat wave with above normal temperatures in the triple digits, Phoenix, Arizona is expected to hit 105 today, and tomorrow. I'm Kristen Wright, NPR News, in Washington.
