"Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman.
The ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon is being tested over two incidents Saturday,
“including the killing of a French soldier, and Perez Eleanor Beardsley reports."”
President Emmanuel Macron confirms that a French soldier serving in the UN peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon was killed. He added that, quote, "Everything suggests," in quote, "that Hezbollah was behind the attack. The Israeli military says it also conducted strikes against a threatening target.
Polls show more than 70% of his rallies are against pausing their fight against Hezbollah. Tel Aviv resident Sarah Haffett says a ceasefire will only allow the group to rearm." "We want that this time it will be on the end, but the final end. We don't want another little war for one year later or two year later. We want quiet."
She says Hezbollah is weakened and now is the time to defeat them. Eleanor Beardsley and Piano News Tel Aviv. Israel, meanwhile, says Sunday that one soldier was killed during combat in southern Lebanon and the nine others were injured, including one in serious condition.
“Iran Saturday once again closed the Strait of Hormuz to ship traffic and government officials”
say it will stay that way until the U.S. stops its blockade on Iranian ports and ships.
And the country's revolutionary guard says any ship approaching the Strait will be considered
as cooperating with the enemy, and will also be attacked. The name's Crasca is a professor at the U.S. Naval War College. He says Iran's blockade is illegal. Iran has an obligation to keep the Strait open in accordance with international law for all other states that are neutral states.
So all the Gulf Arab states as well as all states not involved in the conflict. Of course, those states don't lose their rights. They enjoy the right to transit passage through the Strait of Hormuz. And Crasca adds that the U.S. blockade of Iran's ports is lawful under international law.
North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles into the sea sunday, but it was the latest in a series of weapons tests, as Empire's Anthony Cune reports from Seoul, North Korea has
been developing new military technologies used in conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff says the missiles were launched from around the east coast port city of Shinpo and flew eastward into the sea. Japan also detected the launch. North Korea conducted three missile tests earlier this month, including a missile with cluster bombs and a graphite bomb that disables electrical grids.
In February, North Korea listed new military capabilities it plans to develop over the next five years. It includes AI-assisted drones, nuclear-capable cruise missiles, and anti-satellite weapons. Pyongyang's biggest takeaway from Ukraine in Iran, though, is that its best insurance against being attacked is its nuclear arsenal, Anthony Cune and Pyongyang's Seoul.
And you're listening to NPR news. Hundreds of animal rights activists stormed a controversial Wisconsin dog breeding facility Saturday morning, Wisconsin Public Radio's current has tells us why. Originally, farms near Madison, Wisconsin is expected to close the summer, but animal rights activists say the 2000 dogs being held there are being mistreated.
Maryland is one of the country's largest breeders of Biggles for research. Dang County Sheriff Kelvin Barrett says about 400 violent activists attempted to break into the facility. "I want to be very clear. This is not a peaceful protest and we will do everything and use every resource we have
to keep and maintain the peace." Medicine activists Amy Van Ardison says police use tear gas on protesters. Many people are also hate with her Ebola, the police response is just really devastating and disappointing. "The protest was planned for Sunday, but moved up a date by activists.
For NPR news, I'm Corrine Hess and Milwaukee." "An investigation is underway in Trinidad and Tobago after 56 bodies were found dumped at one of the country's cemeteries, all but six of the bodies were infants. The discovery was made on Saturday. The country's been facing a surgeon crime, including deadly gang violence, but it's not
known where the bodies came from, officials declared a state of emergency in the country last month." Police in Mexico say they've arrested a suspected drug trafficker from Europe to suspect has been identified as Yano's ball. He's wanted in Hungary for drug trafficking and has been the subject of an interpol red
notice. The arrest took place Saturday on the southern part of the country. He is now being held for deportation back to Hungary. "I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News." What happens when our political party becomes the prism through which we see every other
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