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of hours at the Vatican today trying to smooth over tension between the Trump administration
and the First American Pope.
“NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports Iran and Cuba were among the topics discussed.”
President Trump has called the Pope soft on crime and on Iran, but none of those tensions were on display as Rubio exchanged gifts with the Pope and met with him privately. The State Department says the meeting underscored the strong relationship between the U.S. and the Holy See and said they discussed the situation in the Middle East and topics of mutual interest in the Western Hemisphere.
Rubio's State Department has been working with the Catholic Church in Cuba to deliver aid. The Vatican has expressed concerns about a humanitarian crisis there, as the U.S. cuts off most fuel shipments and as Trump talks about a "friendly takeover of the Communist Island." Michelle Kellerman and PR News, the State Department. The death toll in Gaza continues to climb despite seven months of ceasefire.
Gaza's health ministry says 26 people were killed and Israeli attacks this week, including the son of Hamas's lead negotiator.
“Israel's military had no immediate comment, and PR's Anas Baba reports from Gaza City.”
He has now had four children killed in this war. Al-Ha'iyah told Al-Jazeera, the killing of his son when his day-night in Gaza City was, a direct political message, no Palestinian is safe. Specifically, family members mourned the father and son, killed Wednesday and Israeli drones strike as they were digging a hole to use it as a toilet for the displaced family.
Also, 10 police officers were killed this week in Gaza, including the officer leading a campaign against drug dealers and local militias backed by Israel, Anas Baba and PR News guilty. The head of the World Health Organization says five of eight suspected Hontavirus cases linked to a cruise ship in the North Atlantic have been confirmed, WHO director General Tidur's AdNaham Geberiasis says it may take time to find out if there are other infected people.
Given the incubation period of the Andes virus, which can be out to six weeks, it's possible that more cases may be reported. While this is a serious incident, WHO assesses the public health risk as low. Three people from the cruise ship have died, but the cruise ship operator now says about
40 people disembarked the ship after the first passenger died.
It is not clear where those 40 passengers are now, several nations are trying to trace their whereabouts now. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Officials in Mississippi say at least 17 people were heard when a spate of tornadoes blew through the southern part of the state overnight, more than 1,000 structures were damaged,
including homes and businesses, several people had to be rescued from the damage of their homes. There are tornado watches posted now for parts of southern Alabama and Georgia, along with the Florida Panhandle. President Trump is preparing to receive Brazilian President Luis Anasia Lula de Silva
today at the White House, last year, Trump imposed 50 percent tariffs on Brazil.
He claimed Lula's government was politically motivated to convict and jail his ally for Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. New research in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that patients are living longer on a pancreatic cancer drug, and Piers Yukina Gucci has more. The drug, directs unrassive, is in a class of genetically engineered medicines known as
"rass inhibitors." It identifies and kills pancreatic cancer cells using a genetic mutation common to that cancer. The drug lengthens patients' survival from about 2-3 months on chemotherapy to 8 or 9 months on average, and has fewer side effects. Drugs in a similar class have transformed treatment of colorectal and lung cancers.
The new data are so promising, the food and drug administration last week allowed the drug maker, revolution medicines to expand access for pancreatic cancer patients prior to approval. You can do Gucci and PR news, and I'm Corva Coleman and PR News from Washington.
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