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The ceasefire between the US and Iran is set to expire this week with no signs of a broader agreement.
“The Strait of Hormuz remains closed after Tehran reimposed restrictions on the shipping”
channel. After closing the waterway, two Indian flag ships were attacked in the strait, and PR's D. Hadid reports India has summoned the Iranian ambassador to New Delhi for talks. Iran reversed its decision and reached up the strait a few hours after it was opened. After President Trump said the US blockade on Iranian ports would stay in place.
But during the brief opening on Saturday, the Indian Foreign Ministry said there was "a brief incident of firing on merchant ships." On Saturday, the UK's maritime trade operation centre said it received a report that
to Iranian Revolutionary Guard gunboats fired on a tanker.
It didn't say if the tanker was Indian flagged. More than 20,000 seafarers have been stuck on hundreds of ships in the Gulf since the mid-east war began in late February. D. Hadid and PR news, Colombo.
“French President and Manuel Macron is accusing the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah”
of killing a French UN peacekeeper in Lebanon, and PR's Alanna Wise reports. Florian Montoya was killed in what Macron described as an attack on the UN's peace service. Every additional soldiers had been injured as well. Macron said, quote, "Everything suggests that Hezbollah was behind the attack. The accusation against the group comes just a day into the 10-day ceasefire between Israel
and Lebanon." The Israeli military says it has conducted strikes against a threatening target in Lebanon.
More than a million people in Lebanon have been forced out of the south of the country,
where Israel is trying to create a buffer zone to prevent Hezbollah from firing rockets into northern Israel. Alanna Wise and PR news. A mass shooting in Ukraine has left at least six people dead in the capital cave, at least a dozen others were wounded before the gunman was shot dead by police.
The BBC's Mohammed Modi reports authorities are treating the shooting as an act of terrorism. Prosecutors said the attacker, a 58-year-old Russian from Moscow, opened fire in the streets of Holesivsky, a southern suburb of Kiev. Footage on social media shows a man running in the streets, shooting a people seemingly at random with a long rifle.
Authority say he then entered a nearby supermarket where he took hostages and continued to shoot.
Police opened fire shortly afterwards, killing the man.
Kim's mayor Vitali Klicchko said that also been a separate fire in the Suspect Department. Ukraine's capital is no stranger to violence, but this type of shooting attack is rare and has shocked many here. The BBC's Mohammed Modi reporting. You're listening to NPR news from Washington.
A life jacket worn by a passenger on the Titanic has sold an auction for more than $900,000. The best belonged to survivor Lara Mabel from Katelle. It includes signatures from others who survived the sinking in 1912. The life jacket was sold by a British auction house to an unidentified buyer. Hundreds of animal rights activists stormed a controversial dog-breathing facility in Wisconsin
on Saturday. Korean has, from Wisconsin Public Radio, reports. Ridgeline Farms near Madison, Wisconsin is expected to close the summer, but animal rights activists say the 2000 dogs being held there are being mistreated. Ridgeline is one of the country's largest breeders of beagles for research.
The same 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, "Please use tear gas on protesters."
Many people are also with a revolt. The police response was just really devastating and disappointing. The protest was planned for Sunday, but moved up a date by activists. For NPR News, I'm Korean Hess and Milwaukee. A humanoid robot has won a half marathon race for robots in Beijing.
The machine finished the 13-mile course in just over 50 minutes faster than the human record. It used autonomous navigation to complete the race and secure the win. I'm Windsor-Johnston NPR News in Washington. What happens when our political party becomes the prism through which we see every other
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