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Africa's CDC have launched a plan to respond to the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the center of the African continent.
“As NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports, they're aiming to raise more than $500 million to fund”
the plan. It's been three weeks since the WHO declared the Ebola outbreak in international health emergency. It's already one of the largest ever and shows no signs of slowing down. The NATO Director General Tedros Aran Gabriacius says the plan focuses on strengthening
every stage of the response. Serveillance must lead quickly to testing, testing must trigger isolation and care. Infection prevention must protect health workers and patients and community engagement must be continuous, grounded, interest and responsive to concerns.
Officials say the response will cost $518 million through November.
So far, they've only gotten pledges of it more than half that from countries, NGOs, and philanthropies. Jonathan Lambert and PR News.
“Regulators say the United States Postal Service won't run out of cash next year as”
had been previously feared. And Piers Hansi Lowong reports, the updated outlook follows the Postal Service's decision to stop contributing to workers' retirement plans. With people sending a lot less mail compared to decades ago, Postman's General David Sander told Congress back in March that the U.S. Postal Service was on track to be
out of money and have to stop deliveries within a year. But the acting chair of the Postal Regulatory Commission, Robert Top, now tells a house oversight subcommittee that regulators have suspended requirements for U.S. P.S. make
around $15 billion in retirement payments over the next few years.
The Commission's action offers some breathing room and extends the time before the Postal Services reported in Solvency and the stated crisis of stopping mail delivery to at least another several years, providing the Postal Service makes judicious decisions about its expenditures starting now.
“U.S. P.S. is a financial supporter of NPR, Hansi Lowong and Piers News.”
Today, we are remembering our colleagues award-winning NPR photojournalist David Gilkey and Afghan interpreter for NPR and photojournalist Subhulat Tamanna. They were targeted and killed in Afghanistan covering the war there 10 years ago today. Gilkey covered a myriad of stories for NPR, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
"It's hard, but you can't get caught up in it and become part of it. You still need to maintain your state of mind that you are helping tell this story." David Gilkey cared deeply about sharing the stories of U.S. service members fighting wars far from home and how their lives changed when they returned home. David Gilkey and Savi Tamanna are the only NPR journalists to have been killed in the
line of duty. You are listening to NPR. Ukraine and Russia have carried out another exchange of prisoners of war in Piers Hanapala Monaco reports from keep 185 Ukrainian servicemen and one civilian return to Ukraine and 185 soldiers went home to Russia.
Ukrainian State Board of Arts Service shows footage of the released prisoners of war sending the Ukrainian National Anthem as they arrived to Ukraine and territory. According to Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, Madralobinets, most of them had been held captive since 2022. He noted that among those released by a father and son who served in the same brigade
and were captured only one day apart. Lubinets added that partners from the United States and the United Arab Emirates played a significant role in this exchange, as well as in previous exchanges. Hanapala Monaco and Pyrnus, to give. NASA says it has ordered astronauts aboard the International Space Station to shelter in
a capsule. NASA is investigating an oxygen leak from one of the station's compartments. NASA says it's working on a solution for repair.
The Senate has passed a bill spending $70 billion to fund federal immigration enforcement
efforts. Democrats put up numerous amendments that were all blocked by Republicans. One amendment Republicans blocked was a proposal to stop nearly $2 billion just as Department fund. It would pay people who claim they have been persecuted by the federal government.
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