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Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Duahli-Sai-Countal.

Israel has struck new targets in Iran Monday morning local time.

The fresh attacks come hours after Israeli forces bombed Beirut Southern suburbs in

what it calls a message to Iran back to Hezbollah. And Beirut's Jaina Roth reports Israel also hit the city. The Southern City of Tire in southern Lebanon. The sun is setting on the city of Tire and I'm looking out at the Mediterranean, the waves rolling in and people camped on the beach, but not the fun kind of camping.

It's the kind of camping you do when you've fled your home and you've run out of land that provides any sort of safety. This tip of Tire is the old historic ancient district. Mostly Christian and it's the one part of the city that Israel has not threatened or issued warnings for.

So people are continuing to stream here from other parts.

They're safe for now, but they don't know for how long.

Jaina Roth, MPR News, and Tire, Southern Lebanon.

Now to the Philippines, where officials report a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck off the southern coast of the country's southern island of Mindanao. Sonami advisers have been issued in the Philippines as well as in Indonesia. From Taipei, Jan Kamazin, Boombi reports. The Philippine President Bonbon Marcos says, quote, "The National Government is moving and

will not leave Mindanao behind." The Quake struck at a depth of 6.2 miles and was felt as far away as Indonesia, both Indonesia and the Philippines sit on a Pacific ring of fire, where TikTok activity causes frequent earthquakes. Officials in the Philippines have advised people to evacuate to higher ground.

The Pacific tsunami warning center warns that waves of up to three meters would be possible in the Philippines. For NPR News, I'm Jan Kamazin Brumby, in Taipei. The National tsunami warning center also said there is no tsunami, no danger to the US continental coast from the Philippines earthquake.

But earlier on Sunday, a smaller magnitude 3.6 earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay Area southwest of Alamo.

The house this week is expected to pass a $70 billion package approved by the Senate on Friday,

which would fund President Trump's immigration agencies through his term, and Pair's Eric McDonald reports this is a legislative wind for Republicans. They're certainly accomplishing a big goal, three years of funding, through the rest of Trump's

term, will insulate immigration enforcement from a lot of political pressure, right?

They can hold funding back. And mass deportations were a central campaign talking point for Trump. But it took basically six months to get here, and they weren't quiet. Public opinions started to turn on immigration enforcement after federal agents killed to American citizens in Minnesota early in the year, and Democrats, of course, shut down

the agency that oversees immigration enforcement for months in a failed. This is NPR News. A day before thousands of fans converge at Madison Square Garden for game three of the NBA finals, and a week before FIFA's World Cup, a mass stabbing was reported Sunday night inside New York's Penn Station, at least six people were injured and taken to local

hospitals. Police say they have a male suspect in custody, but did not release his identity or what led to the stabbing's on the X-platform city control at Mark Levine said, Amtrak police quickly apprehended the suspect, quote, said to be an emotionally disturbed homeless person. In Peru, the presidential runoff election is still too close to call, but exit polls

show a close, but early lead for the conservative daughter of a 1990s right wing Artigrad, Simeon Tegel reports. The country's two principal exit polls gave KKFW, a 1.4% and 1% lead over her far-left opponent, Roberto Sanchez, when voting stations close to day at 5 p.m. local time. Voting took place without major problems after a polarizing race between two deeply

unpopular candidates, both of whom have been linked to corruption and accused of undermining democracy. KKW promised to dynamize the economy by cutting red tape, and tackle surgeon crime by building more prisons and putting soldiers on the streets, but she will also face distrust from a large chunk of the electorate who fears she will repeat her father's authoritarian abuses.

Official election results could take days. For NPR News, I'm Simeon Tegel in Lima, Peru. And I'm Doa Halli-Cycal-Tel, NPR News in New York. Follow it's been a minute wherever you get your podcasts, and we'll break down the

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