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>> Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder.

President Trump says Iran War objectives are nearing completion.

>> I've made clear from the beginning of Operation Epic Fury

that we will continue until our objectives are fully achieved. Thanks to the progress we've made, I can say tonight that we are on track to complete all of America's military objectives shortly, very shortly. >> Trump delivered a roughly 20 minute prime time speech from the White House.

He repeated claims that the U.S. has destroyed Iran's military, urged patients with high cost brought on by the spike in oil prices, and said countries that received oil through the state of Formus should take action to secure the passage. Following the speech, oil prices rose above $105 a barrel stock

in Asia lost ground after Wednesday's gains on Wall Street.

A top-world energy policy group has detailed the extent to which Gulf countries have had to drastically reduce their oil and gas production

due to the lack of export possibilities through the state of Formus.

And Piers Eleanor Beardsley reports a Paris-based international energy agency says millions of barrels of oil and billions of cubic meters of natural gas have gone unexploited since the war began. >> The IEA says during the month of March, production decreased 25% in Saudi Arabia more than 60% in Kuwait and 80% in Iraq, but the countries must keep

some level of production going to avoid the consequences of shutting down oil wells, which can cause significant damage. Once stopped, some wells are difficult to start again.

Others become entirely unusable.

IEA President Fatih Birol says the U.S. is rarely war with Iran has resulted in the greatest threat to world energy security ever. Eleanor Beardsley and Piers News Paris. A medical examiner in Buffalo, New York has ruled the death of a row into refugee homicide.

In 56-year-old Neural Amine Shah Alam had been dropped off by border patrol agents

and freezing weather. Ryan Sunner of Buffalo Toronto Public Media reports on renew calls for justice from Alam's refugee community. >> Health officials say Alam died on a cold downtown street in February of a ruptured ulcer, which developed from hypothermia and dehydration.

The county's health commissioner notes the homicide definition includes negligence or inaction, not intent. The homicide ruling has hit Alam's Rohingya community in Buffalo hard. They are a stateless ethnic group who have faced atrocities in Myanmar for decades. Community organizer Imran Faisal says his people fled Southeast Asia to escape danger.

>> There must be accountability and the justice must be served to honor his life. This tragedy has created deep fear within our community. >> The e-recounty district attorney says they are, quote, committed to seeking the truth and upholding justice for NPR News. I'm Ryan Zunner in Buffalo.

>> This is NPR. The four astronauts who blasts it off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, Wednesday evening are currently in Earth or orbit. Officials say they are to spend a day checking their capsule before firing the main engine that will propel them toward a flight around the moon.

Three Americans and a Canadian are on board. The 10-day trip is a step toward returning people to the lunar surface. A new paper, the journal Jamma Psychiatry suggests some mental health care providers should ask patients regularly about their use of AI chat bots, just like they ask patients about sleep, exercise diet, and substance abuse, impures retouchative reports.

>> Recent data suggest nearly half of adults with mental health conditions use AI chat bots for emotional support, including for anxiety and depression. Shady Saba is at the New York University School of Social Work and an author of the new paper. >> People who are using these tools on a regular basis to ask about stressful experiences

and how to cope with stressful experiences, personal relationship challenges. >> He says mental health care providers can learn a lot about their patients' lives and mental health by asking them about their conversations with chat bots. They might hear about things patients are struggling with that they might not have volunteered during therapy, retouchative and peer news.

>> Tiger Woods is formally turned down the writer, cut, capped and see as he steps away from golf. Also Wednesday, a Florida judge approved Woods' motion to leave the country to seek treatment. The judge's approval came a day after Woods entered an oculti plea to suspicion of driving under the influence.

I'm Giles Snyder in PR News.

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