Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Kristen Wright.
President Trump called NATO allies cowards on social media today.
“He said they don't want to help open the straight-of-horre moves to oil tankers threatened”
by the Iran War. Tehran has been striking energy infrastructure. Ukrainian officials say they've deployed anti-drone units to several Middle Eastern countries. NPR's Joanna Kekiss' reports from Kiev Ukraine has developed an air defense system to protect its cities from Russian drones nightly.
Ukrainian security chief roast him a mayor of visited five Middle Eastern countries in the past week to talk about countering grown attacks. Writing on social media, Umeraf said Ukrainian specialists had been sent to the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, and Jordan. The main focus is intercepting Shah-Hed attack drones, which Iran has launched on Gulf
Nations hosting American bases.
The U.S. and Israel initiated the war on Iran. Shah-Hed drones resemble small jets and carry explosives.
“Russia makes its own Shah-Hed and has used more than 57,000 of these drones on Ukraine.”
Joanna Kekiss' NPR news, Kiev. Ukraine's president says peace negotiators are heading to Washington to meet with White House on-voys to move forward negotiations to end Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine. Former FBI director James Komi has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury. Once after a separate case against him collapsed, NPR's Kary Johnson reports President
Trump has been eager to see Komi targeted by the justice system. President Trump has called the former FBI director a liar in a leaker and he's blamed Jim Komi for an investigation into Trump campaigned ties to Russia years ago.
Now a grand jury in Florida has issued a new subpoena to Komi, according to a source familiar
with the matter. It seems to be part of a broader case focused on U.S. intelligence reports. Not for an election interference. Komi's lawyer declined a comment.
“Also, DOJ's fighting to revive a separate case against Komi that a judge threw out after”
finding the U.S. attorney in Virginia had been appointed illegally. Komi says he's the target of "vindictive prosecution" and there's no basis to charge him with any wrongdoing. Kary Johnson and PR News, Washington. After nearly 100 years on the air, CBS News radio will end broadcasting in May, according
to an internal CBS memo obtained by NPR. CBS News radio is heard on roughly 700 affiliates. The memo says all positions on the radio team are being eliminated. It calls us a necessary decision stemming from a shift in station programming strategies and challenging economic realities.
CBS Radio's signature broadcast World News Roundup is the longest-running newscast in the country. It has delivered original reporting to the nation since 1938, including legendary newscaster Edward R. Murrow's World War II reports from London. This is NPR News from Washington.
Violence in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo by Islamist and militant groups rose sharply last year, that's according to a report, by the Institute for Economics and Peace. NPR's Emmanuel Akenwo II reports. Researchers from the Institute for Economics and Peace say NPR recorded the largest increase globally in terrorism-related deaths in 2025, with killings rising by 46% from the previous
year. Experts say the surge is down to a long-running security crisis that has seen Islamist militant groups and criminal gangs, launch attacks on communities mostly across Nigeria's North and Central region. This week, 23 people were killed in a suspected suicide attack in May, due to North
East Nigeria in one of the worst such attacks in years. Local politicians have warned that Boko Haram and other militant groups are growing in strength in the region. In Congo, terrorism-related deaths rose by nearly 28%. I mean, rising attacks by the ISIS-affiliated Allied Democratic Forces, Emmanuel Akenwo II,
NPR News, Lagos. Switzerland announced today its halting weapons exports to the U.S., the Swiss government says it won't issue licenses for companies to send arms, its sites neutrality in the Iran War. A federal arts commission has approved a final design for a commemorative gold coin honoring
President Trump. The commission says the coin bearing his image celebrates America's 250th birthday this summer. The approval clears the way for the U.S. meant to start making the coin, meant to official say the size and denomination of the coin have not been determined.
I'm Kristen Wright. This is NPR News in Washington.
