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The U.S. and Iran say they are ready to stop fighting.
“They have announced an initial agreement that President Trump, who's currently at the G7”
in France, says will be signed in Switzerland Friday. The deal is expected to open the vital straight of Hormuz and lift both the U.S. and Iranian blockades that have sharply curtailed the world's oil supply. From Tel Aviv and Pierre's carry-con reports to specifics are still unknown. Lots of questions are a main, but Trump says the straight's opening will happen after
the deal is signed on Friday, and it will begin with a sweeping of the vital waterway of all mines. He said in the past that the pact would entail a 60-day ceasefire, while both sides begin negotiations on a permanent end to the war, and then comes really tough issues, like Iran's nuclear capabilities and sanctions relief.
NPR's carry-con reporting from Tel Aviv, while some countries in the Middle East have welcomed this agreement. Dury Baskaran reports Iranians are expressing relief and anger. Hardliners opposed to the deal accused Iran's top negotiators of betraying the country's former Supreme Leader, who was killed in U.S. Israeli air strikes in February, but many Iranians
critical of their government reacted to the deal with a sense of grim relief.
In one voice note sent to NPR, by a woman who asked to remain anonymous due to the risk of arrest, she said she supported the war at first because she thought it would bring regime change, but the people who pay the price of war are everyday people, she says. It's better that we just continue the current dog-like life we have. We don't need a constant danger of death on top of it as well.
“If the regime can't be defeated by war, then why should there be a war at all?”
It says. Front Pyrenees, I'm Dury Baskaran, Istanbul. The British government has announced it is banning social media for children under the age of 16. British Prime Minister Kierstarmer also announced restrictions on gaming services and live
streaming. The British government says this will be some of the most far-reaching online restrictions in the world, and PRS Fatima Al-Kasab has more from London. His Naptop Tik Tok YouTube Instagram and X are among the platforms that will be banned for children in the UK by early next year.
British Prime Minister Kierstarmer announced the ban in a televised statement from 10 Downing Street. Today is a big moment for our country.
“This is a big step, real change for our children and our future.”
He said this full ban was not a decision he had taken lightly, but that it was the right choice because he said social media is making children unhappy and unsafe Fatima Al-Kasab MP Anneuse, London. From Washington, you're listening to NPR News. The US men's national soccer team beat Paraguay for one over the weekend.
The match, which is being hailed is a milestone victory for Team USA, mainly because of a record viewing audience and PRS Jasmine Garz has more.
Fox, which is broadcasting the world cup, says the USA Paraguay game averaged over 15.9 million
viewers. That makes it the most watched FIFA men's World Cup group stage match in English-language US television history. The Delimundo Spanish language broadcast averaged 8.9 million viewers across Delimundo and Peacock streaming.
Put together, the broadcasts combined to average nearly 25 million viewers in the US. While increasingly popular soccer fandom has lagged in the US compared to the rest of the world, Anneuse say these ratings numbers indicate an audience that's increasingly eager to consume the sport. Jasmine Garz and PR News New York.
Well, FIFA's discrimination monitor at the World Cup is calling out a video review official over what might have been a racist act. Faire Network says the Australian official Sean Evans was seen making an okay hand gesture resembling that used in far-right circles as a white power symbol. It is unclear if Evans intended to make a political gesture.
The award-winning and prolific children's book author, Jane Yolan, has died. She wrote some 450 books, including the 1988 classic The Devil's arithmetic. Yolan was 87 years old. But listening to and PR This is our glass. On this American life, when they mean like, it's a good mystery.
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