>> Live from NPR News, I'm Jial Snyder.
Vice President J.D. Vance has expected to lead a U.S. delegation to Pakistan for talks this weekend on the ceasefire with Iran. The truth has been under strain.
“Iran says Israel's deadly attacks in Lebanon violate the Pakistan brokered ceasefire,”
and has choked off access to the strait for moves. Here's Emperors Daniel Astron. >> From Iran's perspective, they feel emboldened. This war that started with a call to replace the regime, well, one Qamenae was replaced by another Qamenae.
So, the regime is still there.
It is proven that it can withstand the most powerful army in the world,
and the most powerful army in the region, Israel. And it discovered the strait of our moves, and what havoc it can wreak, not only on the Gulf, but on the entire globe. >> Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
says he has authorized direct negotiations with Lebanon aimed at disarming the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants, making the announcement Thursday amid disagreement over whether the Iran ceasefire includes Lebanon. British Prime Minister Kier Starmer describing the ceasefire as fragile,
“and has criticized Israel's strikes on Lebanon.”
He was speaking from Bahrain during a tour of the Gulf as it appears a fat of al-Kasabri ports. >> Prime Minister Kier Starmer told ITV News Israel was wrong to continue its strikes on Lebanon. >> That shouldn't be happening.
That should stop, that's my strong view. >> He says Israel should stop its strikes as a matter of principle. The Prime Minister also drew parallels between Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Trump, saying he was fed up with the fact that British families would see their energy bills rise,
because of quote, "the actions of Putin or Trump across the world." Before this latest surge in prices from the US and Israel's war in Iran, the Russian President's invasion of Ukraine had already pushed up energy prices. Fatma Al-Kasab and Pianniu's London. >> Before astronauts who circle the moon are making preparations
for their return to Earth, they're due to splash down off California Friday, evening as impures no greenfield voice reports. >> While talking to reporters from space, astronaut Victor Glover said he'd been thinking about the return to Earth, ever since he was assigned to this mission a few years ago.
>> We have to get back. There's so much data that you've seen already, but all the good stuff is coming back with us. There's so many more pictures, so many more stories. >> He said he hadn't even begun the process,
everything that they'd seen and done. >> And writing a fireball through the atmosphere is profound as well. >> NASA officials have calculated that during reentry, the capsule's maximum speed will be nearly 24,000 miles per hour. That's really fast, but won't top the reentry speed record set
by the returning Apollo 10 astronauts in 1969. Nell Greenfield Voice NPR News. >> And you're listening to NPR News. To get to the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles are now on sale and fans have been shocked by the high prices.
LAS Libby Rainey reports. >> Fans in L.A. went from ecstatic to heartbroken when they logged on to buy Olympics tickets and saw prices in the hundreds and thousands of dollars. Seats at the games start at 28 bucks,
but go as high as 5,500, including a whopping 24% service fee on each ticket. And the cheap seats sold out fast. Denny Nivens has been to eight summer games
and said he's never seen price tags so high.
It's completely unprecedented.
“I think they're pricing a whole lot of people out completely.”
>> He paid $4,700 for just four tickets to track and field and wrestling finals. Olympics organizers say the ticket costs are necessary to pay for the games and that more cheap tickets will be made available in later drops. For NPR News, I'm Libby Rainey in Los Angeles.
>> Even though soccer fans are also dealing with tickets to this summer's World Cup matches, FIFA has added new even more expensive tiers of tickets for the US opener against Paraguay. FIFA is now asking up to $4,105 for a front category
one seat for the match in Anglewood, California on June 12. FIFA is also added a front category two tier to its ticket sales website, asking for up to $2,330 for those tickets.
It's a new category's first reported Thursday by the athletic.
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