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it has carried out strikes on military targets in Iran. This comes after Iran launched
“missiles at Israel early Sunday, straining a fragile ceasefire reached in April, and”
Piers Hadil al-Shalchee reports." Explosions were heard across to Iran in the cities of Isfahan and Tabriz, and Iran closed the airspace around the capital's international airport. As Israel said, it struck targets in Iran. Earlier in the day, Iran fired missiles towards Israel triggering
sirens in the north. It was the first such attack since a ceasefire took effect in early
April, threatening ongoing efforts to negotiate and end to the conflict. Tehran had previously warned it were retaliate after Israel struck the southern suburbs of Beirut, despite a U.S. plea earlier in the week to avoid escalation. Israel said the strike in Lebanon was in response to rocket fire from the Iranian back to Hezbollah and to Northern Israel earlier that day. Hadil al-Shalchee and PR news.
Former Marine in Oyster Farmer Graham Platner held a town hall in Portland, Maine today, hoping to convince voters and congressional Democrats that he can win Tuesday's primary, and defeat incumbent Republican Senator Susan Collins despite controversial reports about his past.
“"You're not a state son of I believe needs to be a place of challenging the power of”
the court, and we need to be a lot more creative about how we wield power when we have it." He told the crowd about 400 people were going to win on Tuesday and when in November and we're going to take power back for the people in this country. The New York Times reported that while he was married to Platner allegedly sent sexual explicit messages to several women and an ex-girlfriend also claimed Platner was violent during arguments and once
locked her in a room, Platner denies these allegations. Chinese President Xi Jinping
is traveling to North Korea on Monday for a two-day visit. It's his first trip abroad this
year, says and appears Jennifer Pack in Shanghai. Over the past month, the parade of world leaders visited Beijing, including President Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin. The Chinese President's own trip to North Korea comes as Pyongyang plans to expand its nuclear arsenal. North Korea has also been turning to Russia for energy, food, and potentially weapons technology. In exchange for sending troops
and munitions for Russia's war in Ukraine, China is keen to pull North Korea closer to its orbit. In a letter published in an official North Korean newspaper ahead of the visit, Chinese President Xi said no matter how the international landscape evolves, the friendship between China and North Korea remains unbreakable. Jennifer Pack and PR News Shanghai. This will be Xi Jinping's first visit with its nuclear armed neighbor in nearly seven
years. China's North Korea's biggest trading partner and provider of aid. This is NPR News.
In the southern Philippines, a powerful magnitude 7.8 earthquake caused power outages on the island
of Mindanao and triggered tsunami warnings across coastal areas in the Pacific, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and seismology warned people living in nine provinces near the epicenter, southwest of General Cento City to evacuate immediately to higher grounds and move away from waterfront areas. The Pacific tsunami warning center said waves up to 10 feet were possible on some coast of the Philippines. The NBA finals are heading to New York with the NYX holding
a two-gamed to non-lead over the San Antonio spurs. The NYX Deepa's playoff run in decades has fans a dreaming of a championship, Walter Wethman of Member Station WNYC reports. Tattoo shops are seeing a surge in request for NYX inspired ink. Giovanni Muheka drove 30 miles from Long Island to a Tattoo studio in Manhattan's Chinatown. Muheka says he's been thinking of getting a NYX tattoo for years.
Their dominant run through the NBA's Eastern Conference inspired him to commit. "Yeah, now this is NYX season, this is this is this is our year and I had to believe and I was like, you know what? Tom, for that's hot. Time for the Tattoo." Muheka walks out with a black and white NYX logo inked on his right calf, his parting words, "Let's call NYX baby." For NPR News, I'm Walter Wethman in New York City. President Trump is expected to attend game
three resulting in the NYPD in Secret Service announcing there will be no watch party outside of Madison Square Garden. On June 11, the globe's biggest sporting event comes to North America, the FIFA World Cup. The Super Bowl, and you might say, "Average is something over a hundred
“million, live viewers, but the World Cup final." I think like five times that much. The favorites,”
the underdogs, and the Americanization of the world's game. Listen now to the Sunday story
