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If President Trump has his way, a peace deal with Iran will be signed before he gets
“to France early in the upcoming week for the G7 summit.”
Iran, however, has not committed to that, it comes as the world's leading democracies are fractured over differences in a geopolitical crisis as energy costs surge. And NPR's Franco-Ordonia's reports, "The war will come up at the summit." The United Kingdom is working with France to build a coalition of nations to help with the demining of the Strait of Hormuz once a peace deal is reached.
Trump has also said that he expects European and other Western countries who depend on the Strait to have a role. Analysts say Washington's weakening relations with allies have strengthened European cohesion. Trump's name is now gone from the facade of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington after court's denied lead stage appeals, NPR's Chloe Velman reports.
The Department of Justice filed a notice of compliance with the order to remove Trump's name on Saturday, the take down occurred two weeks after a federal judge ruled the addition of Trump's name last December was illegal and required congressional approval.
“Mallory Miller is a co-founder of Hands Off the Arts.”
The activism group has spent months campaigning for the removal of Trump's name. While this surely won't be the last time that Mr. Trump's overreach into our institutions is defeated.
It was the first time that his name was taken off of something and I'm so proud that Hands Off
the Arts got to be part of that. The Kennedy Center did not immediately respond to NPR's request for comment. Chloe Velman and Piano News. The Trump administration says it will comply with the court order and resume processing immigration and asylum applications for people from 39 countries.
Their cases had been put on hold after an Afghan national shot to national guard members in DC last year. In the city of Bonia in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, volunteers are going door-to-door to try to educate people about Ebola, but the virus is still spreading. From Bonia and Livingstone has this report.
In Bonia, in a Tory province, the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak, people no longer greet each other with a handshake. Teams of volunteers have been going door-to-door to raise awareness about the disease. City residents consistently tell the volunteers that they don't have the money to buy disinfectant and they implore the government for help.
Officials figures say that 139 people have died from Ebola, but the actual number is probably far higher. On Friday afternoon, a man riding on the back of a motorbike taxi in Bonia, bombarded blood and then died on the street. His driver fled the scene.
Although his death hasn't yet been confirmed as due to Ebola, stories of similar incidents have become common, and there's a feeling that people are increasingly wary. For NPR News, I'm Emmett Livingstone in Bonia. It's NPR News.
In the streets of New York, the New York mix, that is, bringing home their first NBA
championship in 53 years. They beat the spurs 94 to 90 in San Antonio, MVP Jalen Brunson scored 45 points. The next propelled past a double-digit deficit in the fourth quarter of Game 5, just like they've done in all four of the games they've won in the best of seven series. Mayor Zauron Mamdoni says there will be more celebration Thursday in the streets of Manhattan
with a parade. Japan's World Cup team kicks off against the Netherlands's Sunday, Japan's Base Camp City is Nashville, Tennessee, just in Barney of Member Station WPLN reports the cities embracing the team, known as the Samurai Blue. Passionate soccer fans flew in from all across the country for a soccer practice in Nashville
last week.
“Like Karanaka Saki, who flew in from New York, you just came for practice?”
Some analysts have Japan as a team who could possibly win the World Cup, though their team captain, Wattaro Endo, has pulled out of the tournament and announced his retirement because of a foot injury, hurting their chances. Still, the fans like Shogi Yoshioca have faith. For MPR News, I'm Justin Barney in Nashville.
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