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Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced plans for expanded maritime surveillance in the
Indo-Pacific.
“It comes amid China's increased presence in the region, as him here's Omkark Hanukkah reports.”
Rubio says the U.S. has agreed to share maritime surveillance data across the Indo-Pacific region with India, Japan and Australia. He suggested the court security cooperation was prompted by fallout from Iran's closure of the state of Hormuz. Speaking to journalists in India, Rubio said that 60% of global trade passes through the
Indo-Pacific. "Curn events remind us of what can happen when maritime security is impeded." China's foreign ministry spokesperson said that cooperation between countries should contribute
to regional peace and not target any third party.
Omkark Hanukkah and Biad News, New Delhi. Russia launched more than 100 drones and two ballistic missiles at Ukraine overnight. This after Moscow warned foreign citizens and diplomats yesterday to leave Kiev, citing
“its planned strikes on the Ukrainian capital.”
But despite the threats, the EU and other delegations say they will stay put. And here's Joanna Kekissus has more. Putin says Russia is retaliating for a drone strike. The Russians say killed more than 20 people, many of them teenagers at a college in Russian occupied eastern Ukraine.
Ukraine denies targeting the school and says it hit a Russian elite drone unit nearby.
But the Kremlin is also really agitated by Ukraine's use of long-range drones to target
the lifeblood of the Russian economy, which is oil. Ukraine has struck Russian oil refineries and deep-os as well as ports. Here is Joanna Kekissus reporting, Democrats think they have a chance to win back the Senate in next November's midterm elections. Anthony Brooks of Member Station W.V.U.R. reports, Democrat Graham Platner is leading the
“charge, hoping to beat Republican Senator Susan Collins.”
Any road to victory for Democrats probably runs through Maine, where Platner, the 41-year-old veteran and oyster farmer, is waging a pompulous campaign against Collins. He's expected to win the primary two weeks from today after Maine's Democratic Governor Janet Mills dropped out. At a memorial day rally, Platner slammed Republicans for the war in Iran and promised that
Democrats like him would help working class Americans. Our tax dollars can build schools and hospitals in America instead of bombs to drop on them in Gaza in Iran. People show Platner leading Collins a moderate running for her sixth term who calls Platner to extreme for NPR news, I'm Anthony Brooks in Portland, Maine.
Wall Street is trading in mixed territory this hour, the Dow is down 154 points, listening to NPR news. The script's national spelling bee is underway in Washington, D.C. with 247 of the best young speakers in the English language competing this year in the B. That field will be cut down to around a dozen finalists, and the winner will be announced on Thursday.
That winner gets $52,500 in cash, a trophy, and metal, and also reference works from the Encyclopedia Britannica and Mariam Webster. The U.S. men's national soccer team will officially name the roster today for this summer's FIFA World Cup. It appears William Johns has more.
Head coach Maricio Pochitino will unveil his 26-man roster in New York this afternoon. He's expected to blend tournament veterans like AC Milan Ford, Christine Pulisich, and you renters his Western McKenney with several younger players making their World Cup debut. The U.S. team enters the tournament ranks 16th in the FIFA World rankings, though open their campaign against Paraguay on June 12th at the so-fi stadium in Ingrid, California.
The U.S. will also go up against Australia and Turkey in their group, and the results of those games will determine whether they qualify for the knockout stage. The U.S. is co-hosting the World Cup with Mexico and Canada, Mexico will take on South Africa in the tournament curtain razor at the iconic Estadio Azteca in Mexico City. William Jones and P.R. News.
On Wall Street the Dow is down 173 points. The Nasdaq is up 251 points that's up nearly a 1%. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The Trump administration is backtracking on federal efforts to fight climate change. So city and state governments are stepping in.
We think we are standing what can be the future of energy and Denver. One of the Sunday Story Climate Solutions on the local level. Listen now on the U.S. podcast on the NPR app.
