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Iran's military says restrictions on the state of Hormuz are being reimposed, accusing
“the U.S. are repeated breaches of trust.”
A tanker has reported coming under fire today from Iranian forces while traveling through the waterway. NPR's Quilarence reports the status of the strait has been shifting rapidly as tensions between Tehran and Washington continue. Iran then announced it would open the strait for commercial traffic for the duration
of that ceasefire, though only along this prescribed route close to the Iranian coast. But then the U.S. said it would still maintain its total blockade of Iranian ports while these peace talks continue. And perhaps in response today, Iran's military said that the strait no is closed until the U.S. lifts the blockade.
So it's been a confusing 24 hours."
NPR's Quilarence reporting, "There's no word on when peace talks will continue between the two sides." The U.S. Treasury Department says it's extending a one-month pause on sanctions against Russian oil to tamp down global energy prices amid the war with Iran. The decision reverses an announcement earlier this week by Treasury Secretary Scott Besant
ruling out such a move. NPR's Charles Mains reports from Moscow. The Trump administration first introduced the sanctions waiver in March, part of an attempt to level out global energy prices amid the war in Iran. The policy's extension, effectively, allows countries to legally purchase previously sanction
Russian oil for the second month in a row. The Kremlin's U.S. envoy, Krillton Metriops, had the move amounted to an acknowledgement
“of the crucial role of Russian energy in maintaining the stability of the global economy.”
To me, to have predicted more than 100 million additional barrels of Russian oil would
soon reach global markets. Critics of the U.S. sanctions waiver say it provides the Kremlin with a windfall for its war in Ukraine at a moment when the Russian economy had otherwise been struggling. Charles Mains and PR News, Moscow. At least two dozen tornadoes have been reported across the Midwest this week.
Marsha Durling, who lives in Lena, Illinois, outside of Rockford says one storm left significant damage in her area. "Our trees down, our neighbors have trees down, the neighbor over there lost the roof. There's a house across the street and down from her. There's no, no trust is nothing."
Forcasters say the threat of severe weather is now shifting east. National Weather Service Meteorologist Mark Shinard says storms today are expected to be less widespread, but still dangerous.
“"The threat is lower today, but the risk of some severe weather, the greatest threat”
is going to be farther east today, so generally from four tons of eastern Kentucky up into the West Virginia, eastern Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, southwest New York." Officials are now assessing the damage after storms knocked out power and triggered emergency responses across several states. This is NPR News.
An American delegation has met with Cuban officials in Havana marking a renewed diplomatic effort. During the meetings, the U.S. delegation discussed the Trump administration's push for political and economic reforms as well as demands for the release of political prisoners. The talks come as President Trump has threatened to intervene in Cuba.
The United States has announced new sanctions aimed at those that it says are recruiting Colombian forces to fight in the conflict in Sudan. Michael Coloky has more from Nairobi. The U.S. Treasury Department has put in place sanctions targeting five companies and individuals involved in recruiting former Colombian 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 called on both warring sides to accept the three-month humanitarian truths.
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. People and PR news are Michael Coloky in Nairobi. Schools across Iran remain closed even as air strikes have paused under a fragile ceasefire
with the United States. Officials say there's no timeline yet for students to return. Iranian officials say thousands of people have been killed in the conflict and daily life has yet to return to normal for many families. This is NPR News in Washington.
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