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Vice President J.D. Vance is on his way to Pakistan to host this weekend's high stakes
peace talks between the U.S. and Iran.
“Rather Pakistan is hosting this weekend's peace talks.”
Before Vance boarded Air Force II in the Washington DC area today, he warned Iran to negotiate in good faith. "They're going to try to play us, then they're going to find that the negotiating team is not that receptive. So we're trying to have a positive negotiation.
The President has gave us some pretty clear guidelines and we're going to see." Iran says before talks can start, it has conditions. Today, the country's parliament speaker, Muhammad, Bakr Kalibaugh, posted on X, "At the fighting in Lebanon has to stop and a freeze on Iran's assets needs to be lifted."
NPR's D. Parvaz has more and Iran's demands involving its forces and its allies, his
Ebola in Lebanon, where Israeli strikes have been heavy. The President of U.S. military bases in countries like Qatar and Bahrain has made them targets for Iran in this war. In Iran's deputy foreign minister, Saith Khatib Zoday, told Al-Jazeera English that Iran will permit some ships to pass through the straight-of-harm woes, but only in coordination with Iranian
forces.
“Permanent control of the strike is among Iran's key demands in its negotiations with the”
U.S. Any restriction in the straight will prove highly problematic to oil-rich Gulf Arab nations who rely on free access to the passage for their economies. D. Parvaz and PR News Vaughn Turkey The war began with U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran at the end of February since
then thousands of people have died, majority of the casualties have been in Iran and Lebanon. There currently more than 60,000 people in immigration detention in the United States. It's the lowest. It's been six months, although the number of detainees in ice custody remain historically high.
The 60,000 immigrants were in ice detention, six percent have a criminal conviction. Austin Cougar is a Syracuse University professor, who studies ice data. According to Cougar, the average daily arrests have been going down. In January, for example, during the massive detention campaign in Minneapolis, there were 1,180 average daily arrests.
As of April, the average is 930. There are more people wearing GPS and co-monitors too. The number is now over 46,000. That's the largest amount of people in ice history. It's also been one of the deadliest years on record for ice detention.
This fiscal year, 27 people have died while in custody. Jasmine Garz and Pyrenees, New York. This is NPR News. The United Nations has condemned a drone strike in Sudan, which killed more than 30 people at a wedding ceremony in the western region of Darfur.
The strike is the latest in the nearly 3-year war between the Sudanese Army and the paramilitary group it was formally allied with. We have more from NPR as Emmanuel Akonwattu. A spokesperson for the UN Secretary General condemned the killings, adding quote, "attacks using drones against civilians and civilian objects are unacceptable."
Women and children were among the victims in the attack in Krituam, a town in North 4, local human rights groups including the Nobel Peace Prize-nominated Resistance Committees, blamed the attacks on the Sudanese Army and condemned intensifying drone strikes by both sides. Last week, a drone strike on a hospital in South Central Sudan killed at least 10 people.
The war in Sudan has created the world's largest humanitarian crisis and according to some estimates, has killed as many as 400,000 people, Emmanuel Akonwattu and Pyrenees, Lagos. The inflation in the US spiked with consumer prices up 3.3% in March from a year earlier. That marks the largest increase in nearly 2 years. On a monthly basis, consumer prices rose 9/10% from February to March.
Those big increases in consumer prices represent the first major data signs of how the war
with Iran is affecting the US economy. Big reason for acceleration and inflation is the spike in gas prices following the virtual shutdown of Australia Formus, which has sent global energy prices much higher. It's NPR News. In the new movie, the dramas in Daya and Robert Pattinson are getting married, but maybe
they shouldn't.
“The stars play a couple and then when a shocking secret is revealed, suddenly their”
love for one another doesn't seem all that secure. We're unpacking it all on NPR's pop culture happy hour, listen via the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
