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In eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ebola continues to spread with more than
“670 confirmed cases and over 135 deaths, as response teams struggled to bring the outbreak”
under control. Reporter Emmett Livingstone is there for NPR. I'm here in Rampara, Ebola Treatment Center, and I'm in Ebola Ward with doctors going from isolated room to isolated room, checking on Ebola patients. All of us are in full protective gear, which includes a bib, two layers of clothing, several
layers of gloves, goggles, a mask. It's difficult to describe the level of discomfort, wearing one of these suits. It's very difficult to breathe, and on top of that, the goggles fog ups, it's also difficult to see. These are the conditions under which doctors have to work.
The Ebola patients themselves, some of them appear to be in a great deal of pain, we heard some people cry out. The doctor said that at a certain stage of the Ebola virus disease, the whole body aches, and it's extremely painful.
“That's Emmett Livingstone reporting from Ocherie, the DRC.”
Israel has attacked the outskirts of Beirut, and what it says is retaliation for Hezbole strikes. Lebanese state media say at least three people were killed, 16 others wounded in the air strike on an apartment building, and here's Jena Raff has more from Beirut. Israel launched the air strike as the U.S. and Iran said they were close to signing
a ceasefire agreement. Iran has said that any ceasefire with the U.S. must include a ceasefire in Lebanon, and it has warned Israel in particular not to attack the Lebanese capital. And Israeli statements said the attack was in retaliation for Iran backed hisbole firing at northern Israel.
The militant group has been fighting Israeli forces occupying southern Lebanon, and has also fired drones across the border. Video posted on social media showed smoke rising from an apartment building on a residential
“street in Beirut, southern suburbs, where hisbole has offices.”
Jena Raff and Pyrenees, Beirut. Whatever the outcome of negotiations between the U.S. and Iran, President Trump's fellow world leaders will expect an accounting from him when he joins the meeting of the G7 industrialized nations. For her Obama administration advisor, Josh Lipski, now chair of the International
Economics at the Atlantic Council says President Trump will not be getting a free pass from America's allies. The past six months after Greenland and the President's comments about the U.S. desire to take Greenland, you saw a shift across the G7, and especially in the European allies, of how they approached the U.S., so don't expect this to just be a warm embrace when President
Trump shows up in France. Lipski says he expects serious consideration about trade relations with China, and overall how artificial intelligence fits into the framework of international relations, regulations, and finance. This is NPR.
Bumblebee's have just solved a problem that, for over a century, had only been demonstrated by much larger creatures like chimps, elephants, and birds, already Daniel reports. The task involves placing a reward out of reach of the animal overhead, and seeing if they can spontaneously figure out how to access it by moving an object beneath to stand a top. Oleg Lugula, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Turku in Finland, placed Bumblebee
is in a hollow container about an inch high. Lugula also placed a small styrofoam ball inside, which the bees appeared to roll beneath the reward, and then climb like a stepstool to reach the otherwise unreachable reward.
It's a first, he says, for an insect, and a demonstration perhaps that intelligent brains
come into verse shapes and sizes. For NPR news, I'm Arie Daniel, a 30-year-old Daredevil known as the Spider-Man of Yemen died in Yemen this week after falling into a volcano crater. Officials say Al-Qaqqaibin Antah had no safety equipment. He was climbing the steep walls of the crater when he lost his grip and fell into the 393-foot
crater. Swiss voters have rejected a proposal to cap the country's population at 10 million. Of right-wing Swiss people's party led the initiative and what was seen as a move against migration, early results indicated that 55% of voters in Switzerland said no to the effort. I'm Louise Kivone and PR News, Washington.
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