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President Trump has rejected Iran's response to the U.S. proposal to end the U.S. Israeli
“war that's known at 3rd month, and Pierre Shondali's "duster" has more.”
President Trump wrote on social media on Sunday that he didn't like Iran's response, calling it "totally unacceptable." The state-run Islamic Republic News agency says Iran delivered his response to Pakistani mediators on Sunday. The news agency also says the current phase of negotiations is focused on the cessation of hostilities in the region. Iranian media saved the country's response
included demands, such as an end to the war and the lifting of U.S. sanctions and the U.S. blockade on the state of Hormuz. Earlier on Sunday, Trump accused Iran of "playing games with the U.S. and the rest of the world." Shondali's "duster" and "PR News."
Taiwan has passed a much delayed $25 billion defense budget. At the same time, the state
department is warning that delays in a U.S. arms still with Taiwan will be a concession
“to China. And Pierre's Emily Fang has more.”
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 it's 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. And Pierre 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. That delay is ramping up anxiety that China may push the U.S. to make concessions on its diplomatic stance on Taiwan, Emily Fang and Pierre News. The passenger ship hit by the Hantai virus outbreak arrived in the Canary Islands early today, and those on board began flying to their home countries. 17 Americans are flying
to Nebraska, along with one British national who's a resident of the U.S. World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanam Gaboriasas says countries can do what they want, but the who's guidance is clear. Our advice is clear starting from May 10, 42 days with active follow-up, 42 days of quarantine. But the center is for disease control and prevention said yesterday that the Americans
won't face quarantine in the United States. Meanwhile, one of the French passengers exhibited symptoms during the air-lift, Francis Prime Minister says all five passengers will be in strict isolation. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Nobel Peace Prize winner Nargis Bahamedi has been transferred to a hospital in Tehran after collapsing in prison. Her foundation says this comes after days of pleading by her family
and others. Bahamedi has been in prison since December. She lost consciousness twice and was transferred to a local hospital May 1st, and has been granted bail. The 53-year-old rights activist and champion of women's rights was awarded the Nobel in 2023 while in prison, and she's been jailed repeatedly throughout her career. Her current prison term started when she was arrested in the Northeast and Iranian city of Mashaad.
In a world where you can gamble on almost anything, some like to bet on the time Ice will break on an Alaskan River. Scientists are paying attention to, as shall be Herbert reports the guessing game provides an important climate day-to-point. The Nina Ice Classic clock stopped on Monday night when a tripod balanced on the river ice tipped over. The game signals the arrival of summer and has gone on for over a century. Alaskan
“climatologist Martin Stufers says, "That's why it's a valuable data point."”
"It's very seldom that you have a homogeneous, continuous long-term climat series. We can see a tendency to earlier pre-cups." Still, he says scientists can't use the data to predict river ice break up down to the minute. Otherwise, he would have wanted some point. For NPR News, I'm Shelby Herbert in Fairbanks. You as future contracts are trading lower at this hour, I'm Janine Herbst, NPR News, in Washington.
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. Listen now to the Sunday
story from the up first podcast on the NPR app.
