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to end the war.
“"And what very much to make a deal so far they haven't gotten in, we're not satisfied with it,”
but that we will be, we will be the data we'll have to just finish the job." A President speaking about prospects for an agreement with Iran during Wednesday's Cabinet meeting at the White House, he said Iran is negotiating on fumes. The ceasefire that's
been in place since last month is being tested for the second time in three days. U.S. military
is on strikes against Iranian targets. A U.S. official says the military shot down four Iranian drones around the Strait of Hormuz and hit in Iranian ground control station that was the launch of 5th. Iran says it targeted a U.S. air base after the strikes near the port city of Bondara Boss. Israeli forces have been carrying out strikes in southern Lebanon, especially around the city of Tyre. The Israeli military had warned residents
to leave its impures Jane or Raph reports.
“Israeli forces have pushed further into Lebanon and escalated their tax since Tuesday, killing”
dozens of people, including women and children. These Israeli Prime Minister says they intend to crush Iran back to his bola. In a new warning, Israel told residents of Tyre the second biggest city in southern Lebanon to evacuate immediately or risk being killed. The warning covers tens of thousands of residents, including in Palestinian refugee camps.
More than 1.2 million people have already been displaced by fighting between Israel and
Hezbollah, leaving many families with nowhere to go. Jane or Raph and Pyrenees, Bayrout. A homeland security department expanding its capacity to scan the irises of people at the Tainty irises like a fingerprint with patterns unique to each person. His impures Megan Anderson reports. DHS awarded a $25 million contract last week to a company called B.I.2 Technologies, which did not respond to NPR's request for comment. The agency plans
“to deploy hundreds of the company's iriscanners to ice officers across the country.”
DHS has an arsenal of tech tools now, thanks to an influx of federal funding. Cooper Quinton, with the electronic frontier foundation, says these tools broaden the agency's surveillance web. Could I start doing iriscanners of everybody they detain? And then that's in their database and use that further salons? Yeah, absolutely. DHS declined an interview, but told NPR an establishment that it is using, quote, "every tool available" in its efforts to
detain more people who are in the country illegally. Megan Anderson and Pyrenees. Recovery operation aimed at finding the nine employees who remain missing following Wednesday's chemical tank implosion and Washington state is ongoing. Authorities said Wednesday there is no hope for survivors to presume death toll now 11 after one of the critically injured died at a hospital. This is NPR news. The Australian government says it's seeking damages
of almost one and a half a billion US dollars from three M, accusing the company of failing
to disclose a use of forever chemicals in its firefighting form used in Australian defense bases from Sydney, the BBC's Katie Watson reports. This is the largest legal claim ever brought by the Australian government, which argues that firm containing chemicals that don't naturally break down was used in 28 defense bases across the country. The government seeking to recover what it called significant costs of investigating, managing and fixing
the contamination. Three M has said that the company would defend itself against the claims, adding that the department of defense kept using the firefighting firm in question for two decades after it stopped selling the product in Australia. The BBC's Katie Watson reporting to Laos now, where the effort to rescue seven people trapped in a cave is ongoing. The seven entered the cave last week, but according to the
state-run news agency, a landslide triggered by heavy rain block their exit. Officials say at least five people have been found alive so far, but none have brought out of the cave. A volunteer group from Thailand joined the rescue operation on Sunday, including at least one diver who took part in the 2018 rescue of 12 boys in their soccer coach from a flooded cave in northern Thailand. Vertic expected today in the case of a man who admitted to plotting
to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna, authorities foil to plot the Swiss three scheduled performances in August 2024 were cancelled. On trial Snyder, NPR news. On consider this NPR's afternoon news podcast, we cover everything from politics to the economy to the world, but every story starts with a question. NPR, we stand for your right to be curious to make sense of the biggest story of the day
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