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The Israeli military says 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-Shalci 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 the ceasefire took effect in early April, threatening
ongoing efforts to negotiate and end to the conflict. To Iran had previously warned it would 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 Hisbola, and to northern Israel earlier that day.
Hadil al-Shalci and Piers News. Peru held presidential elections, and initial exit polls show one candidate with a slight lead, though it's still too close to call, and Piers' carry-con reports many people said they were undecided or didn't plan to vote. 27-year-old Ricard Lorda Kayes says he's used to having bad choices when it comes to voting
in Peru. He voted for the leftist Roberto Sanchez, not because he totally backs the current lawmaker, but he says voting for Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of former Hardline President Al-Berta Fujimori, would be a step backward toward dictatorship. We need decisions for the good of everyone, and not for just a few connected people.
Peru has seen at least 10 presidents when elections be removed or resigned or jailed with none having completed a full-term since 2016. If Fujimori prevails as president, she'll be the latest in a string of wins for the right in Latin America, Kerry Khan and PR News. Former Marine in Oyster, a farmer, ground platter, 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.
“United States Senate, 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 of about 400 people we are going to win on Tuesday and win 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, Platner allegedly sent sexually explicit messages to several women, an ex-girlfriend also claimed Platner was violent during arguments
and once locked her in a room, Platner denies these allegations. This is NPR News. A third woman has died at Michigan's only women's prison, the death marks the third inmate fatality in less than a month, Michigan Public Zina ESA reports. The Michigan Department of Corrections says that in May died at a hospital near the prison, the department says she was responsive during transport to the hospital.
Michigan State Police are already investigating the deaths of two other inmates who died in May. Emergency calls obtained by Michigan Public reveal one caller told dispatchers, a death may have been caused by an overdose. The top psychologist performing the autopsy says the final results are not ready, but he has ruled out an overdose as the cause of death. The Department of Corrections did not answer questions about the possibility of an overdose.
For NPR News, I'm Zina ESA in Epsilon, Michigan.
In the southern Philippines, a powerful magnitude 7.8 earthquake has killed at least 12 people.
The associated press reports more than 200 others were injured on the island of Mindanao. The quick triggered tsunami warning zone along coastal areas in the Pacific, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and the seismology warned people living in nine provinces to evacuate immediately to higher grounds and move away from waterfront areas. The NYPD and Secret Service announced someday that there will be no watch
party outside of mass and square garden for a game three of the NBA finals due to public safety concerns with President Trump in attendance, but there are still some tickets left inside MSG if you're willing to pay between five to $100,000. This is NPR. On June 11th, the globe's biggest sporting event comes to North America, the FIFA World Cup. The Super Bowl, and you might say
averages, 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 from the up first podcast on the NPR app.
