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Iran is reopened.
“The Strait of Formus after the start of a 10-day truce between Israel and Iran backed”
militants in Lebanon.
But a U.S. naval blockade remains in place, as Empire Scott Newman reports that could
prove overwhelming, as commercial traffic picks up through the vital shipping channel. The number of vessels passing through the Strait of Hormus' waterway has dwindled from its pre-war average of 138 ships. Ryan Clarke, an expert in naval operations and electronic warfare at the Hudson Institute, says with so few vessels going through, the challenge for the Navy is manageable.
But if you get up to the normal traffic volume or anything close to it, it'll be almost impossible to keep up with that traffic volume with the number of ships the Navy could maintain in that area. Iran says it is opening the Strait for commercial vessels, but the U.S. Navy yesterday expanded its quarantine to include all Iranian tide vessels anywhere in the world.
Scott Newman and PR News, Washington. A new report from the National Monetary Fund says the war between U.S. and Iran is hurting more than just the Iranian economy.
“Empire's Ayah Betraway says countries such as Qatar and Iraq are also feeling the pinch.”
Major airports from Doha to Dubai have seen traffic drop dramatically because of the war, affecting revenue across the Gulf. The International Monetary Fund says the country worst hit economically is Qatar, with a nearly 9% contraction to its economy this year due to a complete suspension of gas production. The IMF says Iran's economy will shrink 6% this year and that he rocks will contract
by nearly 7%. These figures are based on assumptions, the current ceasefire holds, and energy production resumes normal levels by June. Elsewhere in the region, the report says energy importers, like Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Pakistan, have had to spend more due to soaring oil and gas prices widening their fiscal deficits.
Ayah Betraway and PR News Dubai. A truth to a cold Friday between Israel and Lebanon, even though the militant group Hezbollah has not formally agreed to the deal, thousands of Lebanese civilians began returning to their homes in southern Lebanon, Friday. The 10-day agreement calls for the government of Lebanon to prevent Hezbollah and other
armed groups from attacking Israel, but it says only Israel can respond to violence as an act of self-defense. The Supreme Court Friday allowed oil and gas companies accused of responsibility for land loss and environmental degradation in coastal Louisiana to move their lawsuits from state to federal court.
It was a procedural ruling by the Hyde Court.
It comes after a state jury ordered Chevron to pay about $740 million to clean up damage
to the state's coastline. It was one of several similar lawsuits. He was another strong week for Wall Street to Dow Jones' industrial average. It was up 868 points, the NASDAQ up 365 points, the S&P 500 up 84 points. This is NPR News.
Human rights watch estimates that at least 9,000 Salvadorans have been deported from the US back to El Salvador since President Trump took office last year. And his empires, Sarah Heo Martinis Beltran reports many, face a grim future. Lawyers, researchers, and humanitarian groups say many Salvadorans deportees are in prison up on their arrival.
They can then be caught up from contacting families and attorneys. Many of them have no criminal record in the US or El Salvador. All of this is the result of an emergency power imposed 4 years ago by El Salvador President Nagy Buckele. The extraordinary move was only supposed to last 30 days, but Buckele keeps renewing it.
Then, of thousands of people, some with serious criminal records and gangties have been arrested. The crackdown has taken El Salvador from being the murder capital of the world to a country with a lower homicide rate than the US and with the highest incarceration rate in the world. Sergio Martinez Beltran and PR News.
Costa Rica says it's received a second group of migrants deported from the US. It comes as part of an agreement to support the Trump administration's policy of deporting immigrants to third countries. The agreement between the two countries was signed in March, Costa Rica has agreed to accept up to 25, third country nationals expelled from the US each week.
Basketball Hall of Famer Oscars Schmidt has died. His family said he had fought a brain tumor for the past 15 years. He was 65, 68 years old.
Schmidt never played in the NBA, but he played in a record tying five consecutive Olympic
games and set scoring records that remain today. He also starred for Brazil in a historic win against the US in the final, the 1997 Pan American Games. This is NPR News. What happens when our political party becomes the prism through which we see every other
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