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shot down Iranian drones around the Strait of Hormuz.
“Iran says it is targeted an American base in the region, but didn't specify where.”
Meanwhile, Kuwait is also reporting that it has been defending against incoming missiles and drones today. The Israeli military says a Hezbollah drone has killed and Israeli soldier in northern Israel, and Israel is widening its offensive in Lebanon. In Piers' Daniel Astrin reports from Tel Aviv.
The soldier was killed and two other soldiers were wounded in the Hezbollah drone attack on a military area of northern Israel. The Israeli military is struggling to thwart increasing Hezbollah drone attacks, which have killed several other Israeli soldiers in recent weeks. In Lebanon, Israel says it has carried out a wave of attacks on Hezbollah targets around
the southern Lebanese city of Tire, Israel warned residents to leave nearly the entire city.
Israel and Lebanon have been holding rare direct talks to try to end the fighting. Israel and Lebanese officials are expected to meet again Friday at the Pentagon. Daniel Astrin and PR News Tel Aviv.
“The director, General of the World Health Organization, Tidress Adhanam Geberiasis, is expected”
to go to Democratic Republic of the Congo soon. He'll check on the response to the Ebola outbreak. There are nearly 1,000 suspected cases and more than 220 suspected deaths. The WHO's lead for emergencies, Dr. Cheekway Hekwazoo says doctors are trying to get ill people into treatment.
"It's a complex operation. So right now, we're increasing the number of beds every single day, we're up to 200 safe beds by the end of the week." Meanwhile, Dr. Tidress says he is headed to Democratic Republic of the Congo today. Previously, the U.S. repatriated American citizens exposed to Ebola, many were treated
at an infectious disease center in Omaha, Nebraska. Federal officials are opening an investigation into the deadly implosion of a chemical tank on Tuesday at a paper mill in southern Washington state. It killed two people, but nine others are missing and are now presumed dead.
“Oregon Public Broadcasting's Conrad Wilson reports.”
Authorities say they don't expect to find any more survivors from Tuesday's rupture of a 900,000 gallon chemical tank at the Nippon Dina Wave Packaging Company in Longview. Governor Bob Ferguson says the impacts to the community and families are profound. "We're embracing ourselves for this being the deadliest industrial tragedy in modern Washington State history."
Officials say, "Ariquality and drinking water in Longview are not affected by the chemicals, though some did spill into the Columbia River." The federal chemical safety and hazards investigation board announced it has opened an investigation into the rupture. For MPR News, I'm Conrad Wilson.
"You're listening to NPR News from Washington." A federal judge is allowing President Trump to move forward with plans to overhaul the use of mail-in ballots and elections. Today's ruling by the judge upholds an executive order the president signed in March. It directed his administration to create lists of U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote
in each state. The order requires the postal service to only deliver ballots to approved voters. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and several states have argued that states are in charge of their own elections. Immigration courts inside the Justice Department are drastically speeding up deportation hearings.
MPR's human appeal reports, the goal, is to issue more deportation orders. Immigrants are now being scheduled for massive master calendar hearings, though it's are being called mega masters, that include 100 or more people at a time. That's up from two or three dozen people at a time, which had been typical for first hearing. Immigration lawyers told MPR that these new hearings, largely target people without lawyers
representing them. Those who show a belay or not at all are receiving removal orders, further truncating the already limited due process available to immigrants. In the past year, the Trump administration has pushed a streamlined cases through immigration courts, this includes moving up cases of people from specific countries and encouraging
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Last Friday, a powerful earthquake with the magnitude of six rocked the island, it weakened
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