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and Iran remain uncertain. President Trump says he plans to send negotiators to his
“llama bond, but Iranian officials say they have no plans to participate at two weeks”
ceasefire set to expire on Wednesday. Dury Baskar and spoke with Iranians in the Turkish city of Vaughn, near the Iranian border. In a train station waiting room near the Iranian border, one woman told us she's hopeful that the U.S. and Iran can define a compromise to end the war. She asked NPR not to share her name due to the risk of arrest when she returns to Iran
for speaking before in media. "What's up, Miguel? You're only four." Anything that can bring peace back to the people in any way possible, she sets. At the same time, she said she hopes the Iranian government ends its crackdown on internal critics. Others do not want the war to end. Another woman, who asked not to be recorded,
said she's nervous about the talks. She said Iranians are willing to receive an entirely burned and flattened Iran, but an
“Iran that does not have the Islamic Republic ruling it.”
Frontier News, I'm Dury Baskar, and Vaughn, Turkey. "The United Nations Children's Fund says it is outraged after Israel killed two driver's group had contracted to deliver clean water to families in Gaza, and Piers Eleanor Beardsley reports." The UN agency says the workers were replenishing the Mansura Waterfilling Point in northern
Gaza, which supplies Gaza City. It is now suspended activities at the site, and called on Israeli authorities to investigate an insure full accountability. The Israeli army says it's soldiers identified two suspects who approached their troops in northern Gaza. Soldiers opened fire towards the suspects after perceiving a threat.
The IDF said the incident is under review. The Israeli army now controls around 50 percent
of the Gaza strip since the peace plan introduced by the Trump administration in October 2025. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says 568 workers have been killed in Gaza and the West Bank in the last three years, and when are Beardsley and Piers News, Tel Aviv? "Averse Secretary, Lori Chavez, Dury Baskar, has resigned becoming the third member of President
Trump's cabinet to leave this second term in Piers Henry's shoe reports." White House Communications Director Steven Chung announced the departure on X. He wrote that Chavez Durymer was leaving for a job in the private sector, and added that she done, quote, "a phenomenal job in her role." But Chavez Durymer's short tenure was marked by controversy. The Labor Department's
Inspector General was looking into complaints that the Secretary was having an affair with a subordinate, drinking alcohol in the job, and using taxpayer-funded travel to visit with friends and family members, that's according to the New York Post and other media outlets. MPR has not independently verified the contents of the investigation. Her deputy Keith Sonderling has been named acting, labor secretary, and re-assue, and
PR News. "This is MPR." British Prime Minister Kira Starmer is facing renewed calls to resign over his appointment of a close friend of Jeffrey Epstein, as a British ambassador to Washington. Starmer fired the ambassador several months into his tenure, but anger over the appointment erupted
again, Monday in the UK Parliament has impairs Lauren Freyer reports from London. Starmer admits he knew Peter Mandelson was friends with Epstein, but made him ambassador anyway, and then fired him when he learned the extent of those ties. The Prime Minister has apologized repeatedly for his judgment. Now, let's come out that Mandelson failed the government's own vetting process, and Starmer has had to face lawmakers anger
in Parliament yet again.
"Mr. Speaker, I know many members across the House will find these facts to be incredible.
Starmer says he didn't know Mandelson failed the vetting. One of his top aides has resigned over this. But opposition politicians are calling for Starmer to resign, too. This abroar is happening a little over two weeks before municipal elections across the UK. Lauren Freyer and PR News, London." "Tack billionaire Elon Musk did not appear Monday for questioning in a French investigation
into his social media platform, Acts, and its AI chatbot. Musk had been invited for a voluntary interview as French authorities look into the spread of child sexual abuse, material, and deep fake content, and February. Authorities searched exes offices in France. Following Monday's retreat on Wall Street shares in Asia, mixed amid uncertainty about a second round of talks between the U.S. and Iran. Stocks are flat and Shanghai advancing
in Japan."
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