"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Noraram.
Iran has reversed its decision, and is again imposing restrictions on ship traffic through
the straight-of-war moves.
“British officials say three commercial vessels came under fire today.”
They say the attacks cause damage, but no fires or casualties. It's day two of a ten-day ceasefire to pause the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. The agreement seems to be holding amid several incidents of violence, but many in Lebanon are not convinced it will lead to lasting peace."
NPR's Cat-Lan store reports from Beirut, 46-year-old Abir Muhammad Al-Masri, has been living in a tent in a parking lot with her six kids for nearly seven weeks. She says that she'd much rather be in their apartment in the southern suburbs, but... "Mabu, hey, this is the op- Oh, Mano." "I don't trust the ceasefire," she said.
"It's more of a truce than a ceasefire. We can't go home yet."
Many of the more than one million people displaced in Lebanon during this war have headed
“back to the south, where much of the fighting was happening, despite warnings not to.”
But Israel is still occupying about 10 percent of the country after destroying whole villages to create what it calls a buffer zone, to keep Hezbollah from firing rockets into Israel. Lebany's people from those villages cannot return. Cat-Lan store, and Beirut, a federal judge, has blocked the proposed 6.2 billion dollar merger between next-door and Tegna, depending the outcome of an anti-trust lawsuit.
NPR's Matt Bloom reports. U.S. District Court Chief Judge Troy L. Nunnly and Sacramento issued a preliminary injunction on the deal late Friday, and came in response to a complaint from eight Democratic attorneys general and direct TV. The plaintiff's argue the merger could raise consumer prices and lead to the consolidation
of local news stations.
The deal valued over six billion dollars could create a company that owns 265 TV stations
across 44 states.
“President Trump has endorsed the deal publicly and the Federal Communications Commission”
and Department of Justice have already approved it. Next-door in a statement says the merger will make local stations stronger, and that it will appeal the judge's block. Matt Bloom and PR News. That's a fair weather, including suspected tornadoes, swept at the Midwestern U.S. yesterday,
no deaths were reported. Mark Chinard, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, says several states were affected. "Google home, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin. So a lot of those states did have pretty widespread severe weather yesterday.
Wind and hail were the most common reports, a lot of large hail, a lot of strong winds. But there were also several tornadoes scattered about within that corridor as well. So definitely an active day of severe weather yesterday across the middle part of the country." He said there's a threat of more severe weather today, most likely in the eastern part of the U.S., you're listening to NPR News in Washington.
An 85-year-old widow detained by U.S. immigration authorities for 16 days is home in France. She had married an American military veteran last year who is since died. She was detained after she overstayed her visa. The French Foreign Minister wouldn't comment on her specific case, but said some ice methods are not in line with French standards.
The U.S. has announced new sanctions aimed at those that says, "Our recruiting Colombian forces to fight in the conflict in Sudan." Michael Coloki has more. The U.S. Treasury Department has put in place sanctions targeting five companies and individuals involved in recruiting for macolombian military personnel to fight on behalf of the paramilitary
group that rapid support forces or RSF. Among those sanctions are a former colonel in the Colombian army, as well as a Colombia-based employment agency. Clashes involving the RSF and the Sudanese armed forces have been going on for three years. The U.S. has colon both warding sites to accept the three-month humanitarian troops.
Scores of civilians caught up in the conflict are being killed and are put in from their homes. In what aid group say is the world's worst humanitarian crisis. For MPR News, I'm Michael Coloki in Nairobi. The California Insurance Department says three people have been convicted in a scheme-dubbed
operation bear claw. They used a person dressed as a bear to attack a Rolls-Royce into Mercedes and then submitted a video, along with insurance claims, seeking nearly $142,000. A biologist from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife said the video showed it was clearly a human in a bear suit.
I'm Nora Ram and PR News.
