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to withholding military equipment from Iran.

He said he's not going to give military equipment.

That's a big statement. He said that today. That's a big statement. He said that strongly, but at the same time he said, you know, they buy a lot of their oil there.

And it's like to keep doing that. He'd like to see or most straight open. I said, well, we didn't stop it. They did it. Then we stopped them.

You know, sort of interesting.

He said, you know, they stopped it, then you stopped them, but they'd like to see it open.

President Trump speaking to Fox News, China has repeatedly said it is not providing Iran with weapons, but the New York Times is reporting that Chinese companies have considered sending weapons to other countries.

On the straight of four moves, the White House says Trump and Xi have agreed on the need

for it to be reopened. Trump is wrapping up his state visit to China Friday. The Supreme Court, allowing the abortion pill, myth of pristone, to remain available by mail nationwide, overruling for now a lower court decision that had blocked it from being sent through the mail across the country, impures need a Tottenberg reports.

In a one paragraph order, the High Court froze a decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that had made it illegal to send the abortion pill, known formally as Mifra Fristone, through the mail. The Justice is, however, reversed that ruling until the case is fully litigated up through the Supreme Court of necessary.

Two Justices, Clans Thomas, and Samuel Alito, filed the sending opinions, Thomas took particular aim at the manufacturer's of Mifra Preston, contending that since abortion is illegal in Louisiana, drug makers are not entitled to block a court order, quote, "based on lost profits from their criminal enterprise," Nina Tottenberg and PR News Washington. Tens of thousands of Israelis have streamed through Jerusalem in an annual ultra-national

ist March, marked by races and anti-Palestinian chancey event marks Israel's capture of

East Jerusalem nearly 60 years ago, in PR's Daniel Esthern reports. Fourth of October, boys and young men are streaming through the Muslim court of the old city. They are chanting religious chants. They're also chanting anti-Arab slurs, like Mayor Village Burn.

But you can see here, symbols inspired by Israel's wars and Israel occupying lands throughout the region. Many people are wearing stickers that say Gaza is ours forever. Some are wearing necklaces with the map of what's called greater Israel, including lands in today's Lebanoni Rock and Jordan.

Many here are waving flags calling for the building of the Jewish temple at the site of the biblical temples, which is where Islam's al-Aqsa mosque stands today. Several hundred Israeli human rights activists have been in the city trying to protect Palestinians in the streets, as young Israelis attack them. Daniel Esthern and PR News Jerusalem.

And you're listening to NPR News. Last year, the Trump administration shut down USAID, cutting funding for low-income countries around the world. That decision appears to have led to an uptick in violence across Africa, reporter Ari Daniel has more.

The team of researchers considered the relationship between two data sets spanning all of Africa.

The first was a map of average USAID funds dispersed.

The second was a map of the violent activity before and after the contraction of the aid agency. Places that had received more assistance tended to experience more conflict once that aid abruptly vanished. Austin Wright is a data scientist at the University of Chicago.

The rapid collapse had enormous consequences on the ground, undermining livelihoods and therefore leading to a surge in violence. Wright says he worries increased conflict may well be the legacy of the decision to terminate USAID so suddenly. For NPR News, I'm Ari Daniel.

Cole and power industry groups are cheering the Trump administration's latest step to pull back regulations on coal mining and coal-fired power generation. U.S. environmental protection agency said there are state aims to roll back limits on toxic waste water from coal-fired power plants, saying its proposed new rule will cost will lower the cost of power generation.

Environmental groups say it's a public health danger and a giveaway to the coal industry. But, Angela Marketson, Asia, losing ground-south Korean shares down more than 4% of Japan's benchmark in E.K. is down 1.6% Brent Crute. The international standard above $107 a barrel. We flush a lot of things down the toilet, you know, the obvious ones.

But drugs like cocaine are also going down the drain and into our waterways. That's changing the animals that live in it. It's definitely present in most of E.K. systems on Earth now, unfortunately, through only sort of really starting to scratch the surface into understanding the potential consequences of that.

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