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Vice President J.D. Vance says he expects to travel to Switzerland in the coming days
for negotiations on Iran.
“Today, Tehran said it had closed the straight of our moves again, because of the latest”
Israeli strikes on Lebanon. NPR's Franco Erdonio's reports, Vance, had a different take. Vice President Vance said U.S. envoy's Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner are already on the ground in Switzerland dealing with some of the technical elements of the negotiating negotiations.
Vance claimed the ceasefire was going well, and that the straight of our moves was now opened. In an interview with Fox News, he dismissed reports that the Iranians had closed the straight and response to Israeli strikes on the Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon, but he said there are still some challenges and dangers that needed to be addressed.
No, we're not seeing any evidence that the Iranians are still closing down the straight of our moves. It is going to take some time to clear those minds, though. It said millions of barrels of oil had recently passed through the straight in the last couple of days.
Franco, Ordonio's NPR News.
“European Union leaders are split over the initiative of a top block official to open a diplomatic”
channel to Moscow without consulting them. Terry Shulls reports the controversy dominated a summit of the 27 heads of state and government. European Council President Antonio Costa defends his decision to direct his chief of staff to reach out to the Kremlin, despite not having the backing of the 27 EU governments he represents.
What I'm doing through my office is to establish a diplomatic channel, because we cannot depend only on others to interpret Russian messages and we must be able to convey directly our own messages. Some countries, including Belgium and Spain, support the move at French President Emanium Acon and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, were among those rejecting it, saying even when
Moscow gets serious about peace talks, it should be leaders of individual countries like themselves in the lead. For imperial news, I'm Terry Shulls and Brussels. Cuban lawmakers have approved sweeping reforms towards becoming a market economy in a bid to survive U.S. sanctions.
The reforms backed by the Communist Party and former leader Ronald Castro would privatize a vast, swift, cloth of the country's socialist economy, the BBC's Will Grant reports. Under the measures, the private sector will play a far greater role in the economy.
“The state will step back from key sectors, including tourism and mining, and invite foreign”
direct investment, including from the Gulf States. On the question of whether Cuban Americans who had had properties and businesses expropriated by the Cuban Revolution could expect to get those assets back, the deputy foreign trade and investment minister Carlos Mendez added that Cuba was open to reaching an agreement that is acceptable to all sides on the matter.
The BBC's Will Grant, this is NPR News in Washington. Much of Europe is sweltering under a heat wave with temperatures climbing towards record levels, French officials are holding an emergency meeting after hearing a warning the heat would last into next week. Germany has issued near nationwide heat alerts, scientists say climate change is making heat waves more frequent and intense.
Ties, mugs and cards are in order this weekend, tomorrow is Father's Day, an American tradition rooted in more than dollars, NPR's Amy Held reports. Prices are up, wages are down, but people are still spending on that.
In record amounts, in fact, the National Retail Federation projects nearly $28 billion total
spent on the day. Consumers say they'll pull back in other areas to make it work, budgeting around $230 on average, withoutings, clothing, and gift cards topping the list. An American "mom" is credited with coming up with the idea more than a century ago. Senora Dodd of Spokane wanted to honor her husband and her own dad, a widowed civil war veteran
who raised six kids. Inspiring Washington State to first recognize the day in 1910, more than 50 years later, the third Sunday in June was reserved for dad, after President Johnson signed a proclamation, and in 1972, President Nixon made Father's Day a permanent national holiday, Amy Held and PR news.
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