Live from MPR News, I'm Giles Snyder.
Despite Thursday's new round of strikes between the U.S. and Iran, President Trump says
a ceasefire remains in place.
“Speaking to reporters while inspecting renovations to the reflecting pool outside the Lincoln”
Memorial Thursday night, Trump called the strikes a trifle, and he said Iran still wants to make a deal. It's going to talks are going very well, but they have to understand if it doesn't get signed, they're going to have a lot of pain, they're going to have a lot of pain. They want to sign it.
I will tell you. They want to sign it a lot more than I do. U.S. military says that intercepted Iranian attacks on three navy ships as a transit at the Strait of Formus, and then targeted Iranian military facilities, and it said it was
responsible for attacking U.S. forces, earlier Thursday, Iran said it is examining
the latest proposals for ending the war. The death toll in Gaza continues to climb despite seven months of ceasefire. Gaza's health ministry says 26 people were killed in Israeli attacks this week, including the son of Hamas's lead negotiator.
“Israel's military had no immediate comment in Piers on Ospaba reports from Gaza City.”
The Palestinians gathered to Buriyaza, Malhaya, he is the 31 year old son of Hamas's inter-in political leader Khalil Al-Hayah, who himself survived a field Israeli assassination attack on Hamas's leaders in Qatar last summer. He has now had four children killed in this war. Al-Hayah told Al-Jazira, killing of his son when his day-night in Gaza City was, a direct
political message, no Palestinian is safe. Apparently, family members mourned the father and son, killed when his day 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, and Ospaba and
current news guilty. Southern poverty law center, pleading not guilty, the federal criminal charges impures Debbie Elliott reports on the umrahment Thursday, Montgomery Federal Court. In Southern poverty law centers, interim CEO, Brian Faire, entered the not guilty plea to charges including wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
At issue is its work tracking hate groups, the U.S. Justice Department accuses the S.P.L.C.
of fraudulently using some $3 million in donations to secretly pay informants in right-wing
extremist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan. Faire says the allegations are politically motivated and provably wrong, and that information gathered from informants was used to dismantle hate groups. Acting U.S. Attorney Kevin Davidson says there's nothing vindictive about the prosecution. Debbie Elliott and PR News, Montgomery.
This is in PR. Results so far from locally elections in England show big losses for prime minister, secure Starmer's governing labor party, and gains for the hard-right reform U.K. led by Nigel Farage. Reform U.K. has gained more than 200 council seats in England so far, although the most
council's have yet to announce a results. The election widely seen as a referendum on Starmer just two years after a landslide victory for his labor party. Australian police have formally charged three women with alleged links to the Islamic state group with offenses relating to slavery and other crimes.
Christina Kukulia reports from Melbourne, and there are among 13 women and children who return to Australia at suspending more than seven years in a Syrian detention camp. Australian Federal Police confirmed that two of the women aged 53 and 31 were charged with multiple counts of crimes against humanity, including enslavement, after being arrested at Melbourne Airport on Thursday.
Each of the offenses carries a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison. Police alleged the women traveled to Syria and 2014 with family members. The older woman is alleged to have purchased the slave for $10,000. The other woman aged 32 was arrested at Sydney Airport, and is accused of being a member of a terrorist organization and faces lesser charges.
A return to Australia follows an earlier attempt by a group of women and children held by Kurdish forces that were stopped by authorities before leaving Syria. And beyond use, I'm Christina Kukulia in Melbourne. The major stock markets in Asia, slipping and Friday trading Japan's benchmarking
“key down after closing the day before at a record high.”
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