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Iran today responded to the latest US proposal to end the war.
There are a few details.
“It appears to focus primarily on reopening the straight-of-war moves to shipping.”
NPR's deepest shiver on reports, President Trump wants to end the war. The majority of Americans did not support US actions in Iran from the beginning of this war. But among Republicans, there was pretty overwhelming support for Trump and what the US military was doing in Iran.
Now 10 weeks into the war, though that look has worsened a bit for Trump. Week after week, there's polling that comes out that shows that there's this cave in support among Republicans who support Trump. A recent poll from Marist shows that a majority of Republicans do still support Trump's approach in Iran, but 22% disapprove, and that's up from 15% in March.
NPR's deepest shiver on reporting. NPR's passenger is disembarked from the cruise ship in the Canary Islands. The government in the UK has launched a mission to support one of its citizens on another
“island, who has become ill with his spectacace of haunt of virus.”
NPR's Lauren Frayer reports from London. British Army medics have parachuted onto an island in the South Atlantic called Tristan Decuna. It's the UK's most remote inhabited overseas territory, with no air strip and a population of just over 200 people.
The haunt of virus stricken cruise ship docked there in mid-April to drop off a British passenger who lives there. Two weeks later, he came down with symptoms and is isolating in stable condition. The Ministry of Defense says six paratroopers jumped out of aircraft intandum with an intensive care doctor and nurse.
Footage shows three parachutes floating down onto an island meto dotted with corrugated metal shafts. The government says oxygen was part of the delivery. Two other Britons with confirmed cases are being treated in South Africa and the Netherlands. Lauren Frayer and PR News, London.
Taiwan has passed a much delayed $25 billion defense budget.
At the same time, the US State Department is warning that delays in a US arms deal with Taiwan will be concessioned to China, NPR semi-faring reports. Taiwan's defense budget is less than the $40 billion which Taiwan's president had hoped for, but it isn't increased from year's prior and one that China sharply criticized. This budget approval was held up for months in Taiwan by partisan fighting, but its approval
comes just before President Trump will meet with China's leader Xi Jinping. He's expected to talk about everything from trade to Taiwan, a democratic island that China hopes to control one day. NPR also earlier reported that two American weapons packages to Taiwan, totaling about $14 billion worth of missiles, missile defense technology and other weapons, had been held up.
North delay is amping up anxiety that China may push the US to make concessions on its diplomatic stance on Taiwan, Emily Fang and PR News. This is NPR News. A breakaway group associated with the Pakistani Taliban is claiming responsibility for last night's attack on a security post in the northwest part of the country.
A car bomb exploded and then gunmen fired on police rushing to the scene, at least 14 police officers were killed. Many foods are evaluated using internationally recognized standards, but that wasn't the case
“for chocolate's key ingredient at Cal until recently, Ari Daniel explains.”
The standardized process of evaluating Cal took years to develop, involves roasting the beans, separating out the shells, and then running the nibs through a mill. Sugar and cocoa butter are added before pouring the resulting chocolate into molds. Julien Simonis helped develop the process for the Cacao with Excellence program, created by a non-profit in Rome.
Harmonizing the way of talking about a food product, it's to see the differences, to let people appreciate it. Which helps persuade consumers to pay for higher quality chocolate, thereby benefiting farmers, many of whom struggle economically. For NPR news, I'm Ari Daniel.
State news outlets in Myanmar say miners have found a ruby, a huge one, measuring 11,000 carrots. It was found in the heartland of the gem mining industry, hurt by the country's civil war. The ruby is described as having a purple red hue with yellowish undertones.
It's believed to be the second largest ruby by weight, and more valuable than the largest
ruby ever found, because of its superior color and quality. For a growing number of women, single motherhood feels like the right choice. She walked eyes with me, and that was the moment that I knew we were about to have one hell of a life together. On the Sunday Story, how these single mothers are making it work.
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