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The United States and Iran are directly engaged in peace talks in Islamabad, the White House confirmed Saturday.
“As Betsy Joel's reports, this comes as both sides met separately with Pakistan's Prime”
Minister Shabah Sharif." It was unclear for most of Saturday whether these face-to-face talks would happen. And the details of the talks in general before they started were kept under close wraps. The Iranian state media has reported that two rounds of discussions have taken place so far, and those talks have been going on for hours.
Vice President J.D. Vance has been leading the delegation from the U.S. side in talks that could decide whether a two-week ceasefire will be prolonged, or if issues like Israeli attacks in Lebanon will foil the peace process. For NPR news, I'm Betsy Joel's in Islamabad. Two U.S. Navy warships began removing Iranian mines from the Iranian block straight-of-form
moods according to the U.S. Central Command. NPR's Franco Erdoğan's reports. "Two U.S. Navy guided missile destroyers passed through the straight-of-form news today.
This would mark the first transit of American warships since the start of the war, which
began six weeks ago."
“The U.S. says this is the start of the process of reopening the straight-to-commercial”
shipping. And again, it comes as American and Iranian teams are meeting in Pakistan for peace talks. Additionally, the U.S. plans to deploy underwater drones to assist in the clearance effort in the coming days.
Negotiations are expected next Tuesday on another phase of the war. Israel's military action against its neighbor Lebanon, ambassadors are planning to meet in Washington, D.C. David Millerband is the former British National Foreign Secretary. He now heads the International Rescue Committee. He says the situation in Lebanon is desperate.
"In the situation in Lebanon, it is a new scale of catastrophe.
One in five people, forced from their homes, only 150,000 of the million-plus people displaced
in government shelters. So people sleeping on the floors of relatives, the floors of friends, a few thousand also
“intents in Beirut, it's an extraordinary city.”
You can drive past the Beirut Yacht Club and outside the Beirut Yacht Club. There are people in tents who've been forced from their homes." At least three people died in the latest attacks by Israel on suspect that has both a sights and Lebanon. Several prominent Democratic Party officials in California, including former House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi, are calling for congressmen Eric Salwell to drop out of the race for governor. This afternoon, numerous women are alleging sexual misconduct, including one woman who says she was sexually assaulted by the congressmen when she was working for him. NPR is not independently verified the allegation first published in the San Francisco Chronicle and on CNN, you're listening to NPR.
Worldwide, roughly a quarter of all mammals are hunted, trapped or bought and sold is part of wildlife trade, as NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports this trade is a major route for animal diseases. Scientists have traced many human diseases to contact with wild animals. A bowl of outbreaks can be sparked by interacting with bats, HIV likely jumped to humans
through a hunted primate, and studies suggest COVID-19 came from a live animal market, where lots of species were kept in close quarters. These anecdotal examples don't say much about how risky trading wildlife is, generally. New research in the journal Science suggests very. It found 41% of traded mammals shared at least one pathogen with humans, while just
6% of non-traded ones did. And the longer humans have been trading animals, the more viruses they share. For every decade in the wildlife trade, an additional new pathogen jumps to humans. Jonathan Lambert and PR news.
A federal judge Friday extended his block on a proposed 6.2 billion dollar merger of the
television giants, next are in Tegna, while he decides of a longer review of the deal as necessary. The attorneys' generals from eight states in satellite provider direct TV, sued to block the deal, claiming it would harm local journalism and raise prices to customers. The U.S. District Judge Troy Nunnly extended his emergency restraining order until April
of the 17th, the merger with next star would give them control of 265 television stations nationwide. I'm Dan Ronin and PR News in Washington. Support for NPR comes for me. Each story you hear on Planet Money starts with a question.
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