"Live from NPR News in Washington, 9 Core of a Coleman, the status of peace t...
the U.S. and Iran remains unclear the ceasefire in Iran is due to expired tomorrow.
President Trump has said he is ready to send a negotiating team to peace talks in Islamabad, Pakistan, led by Vice President Vance. Trump told CNBC this morning Iran will have to attend." "Well, as I said two days ago when they said they won't send them, I said they'll be sending them.
They have no choice but to send them.
“What I think is that we're going to end up with a great deal, and I think it's got, I think”
they have no choice." But Iran has not indicated it will send a team to the talks. This comes as the U.S. military says it has stopped another vessel that has been sanctioned in international waters. Earlier this week, the Pentagon also stopped another Iranian container ship near the
straight of Hormuz. U.N. study estimates Gaza needs $71 billion for reconstruction and recovery, and Piers'
A.A. Batrawi reports a third of that total is needed immediately for critical infrastructure
repair. A new assessment by the U.N. World Bank and European Union notes that more than 370,000 homes in Gaza were destroyed or damaged in Israeli attacks, leaving more than a million people without homes. Most people in Gaza now live in makeshift tents made out of sticks and plastic tarps.
Israeli troops meanwhile occupy around half of Gaza and have leveled thousands more homes
“there, they say, to dismantle Hamas tunnels.”
The study also says around 75% of all people in Gaza who were employed before the war are now without jobs, relying on aid to survive. It notes Gaza has the lowest levels ever recorded globally on the human development index, which measures life expectancy standards of living and access to education, Ayah Batrawi and Piers News, Dubai.
President Trump's nominee to succeed Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve
East Schedule to testify today to the Senate Banking Committee, and Piers Scott Horsley reports. Kevin Horses previously served on the Fed's governing board during the George W. Bush and Obama administrations, back then he was considered an inflation hawk, wary that cutting interest rates might lead to runaway price hikes.
But these days, Horses argues for cutting interest rates, that puts him in line with the president's demands, but also draws opposition from Senate Democrats who see Horses an opportunist and a flip flopper.
“On Republican Senator Tom Tillis is also threatening to hold up Horses nomination, but”
not because of anything the nominee is said, Tillis wants the justice department to drop what he considers a bogus investigation of the current Fed chairman, Jerome Powell. He's using the Horses nomination as leverage to get his way. Scott Horsley, in Piers News, Washington. The White House says that Labor Secretary Laurie Chavez-Dereemer has now resigned.
She is to take a job in the private sector. DeRemer had been investigated on allegations of misconduct in office, and PR has not independently verified these allegations. On Wall Street in pre-market trading, Dow futures are higher. You're listening to NPR.
FBI Director Cash Patel is suing news outlet the Atlantic in one of its reporters. He alleges they published false claims about him in a recent story. And alleges that he engaged in heavy bouts of excessive drinking. The Atlantic says it will defend itself. Popleo has arrived in Equatorial Guinea in Central Africa, the final stop on his visit to
the continent where the Catholic Church is rapidly growing. Equatorial Guinea has been criticized by human rights groups for leading one of the most repressive governments in the region, and Piers' Emmanuel Akinwotu has more. Popleo was greeted by Equatorial Guinea's President to Adoro Obian. He's been in power for decades, even during the country's only other people visit, by
Pope John Paul II in 1982. Critics have won Popleo's visit, could be seen as an endorsement of Obiank, who along with his son leads a government accused of widespread repression and corruption. Ahead of the pontiffs visit, government workers alleged deductions were made to their salaries to fund logistics.
Throughout his 11-day trip in Africa, Popleo has sharply criticized despotism and corruption, urging African leaders to quote "break the chain of corruption." A message that few in Equatorial Guinea can express without fear of arrest. Emmanuel Akinwotu, N.P.R. News, Lagos. The British royal family is marking what would have been the late Queen Elizabeth's 100th
birthday today. She died in 2022 with the age of 96. She was the UK's longest-lived monarch. The royal family is attending events in Elizabeth's honor today. I'm Corva Coleman, N.P.R. News, in Washington. Every story from shortwave and pure science podcasts starts with a question.
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