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Pakistani officials who have been mediating the talks between U.S. and Iran, an ending
“the war in Iran, along with Qatar, say the negotiations will resume tomorrow in Switzerland.”
Vice President J.D. Vans told Fox News today, "The U.S. envoy Steve Wittkov and Trump Sun and Law Jared Kushner are there now," he says he plans to join them.
"I expect that I will leave some time the next couple of days, but you know, it's always
a delicate coordination dance and a diplomatic protocol. I'm going to be honest with you, I don't really understand these things. I've never been a particularly into diplomatic protocols. My attitude is let's get on the ground and actually fix these problems, but they want to do a delicate dance, the Qataris and the Pakistanis want to make sure that we do this
in the right way. So I'm trying to be respectful, given my position of the last year and a half, I have to care about diplomatic protocols." Vans says the Iranians are in a much weaker position. Despite the Iranian military is now destroyed, he said Iran's nuclear program is also
destroyed, but the U.S. must ensure it won't be rebuilt. Iran says it has again closed the straight-of-hormous, blaming the U.S. for Israeli attacks
“in Lebanon, it says "violate the preliminary agreements signed this week."”
NPR's J.N. ref has more. Iran says it closed the straight to shipping traffic due to what it calls breaches of the tentative agreement it reached with the U.S. failure to ensure Israel adheres to a ceasefire in Lebanon. Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon killed at least 16 people, including women and children
Saturday. A day after President Trump told NBC News that Israel and Lebanon had agreed to the ceasefire. Israel has made clear it's not bound by the U.S. Iran Agreement, which calls for ensuring Lebanon's sovereignty and territorial integrity. Israel's Bolas says it reserves the right to attack Israeli forces inside Lebanon.
J.N. ref and Pyrenees, Feirut. Ebola cases continue to rise in the Democratic Republic of Congo with 900 confirmed infections and 245 deaths. The suspected toll is much higher and at Livingstone reports.
Congo says health workers are tracing 72 percent of the contacts of Ebola patients.
But aid workers disagreed.
“In a Turi province, the epicenter of the outbreak, many people are avoiding hospital and deaths”
are occurring in communities unrecorded. Some senior aid workers said that they are only managing to trace about 40 percent of contacts. The Turi's health system has been devastated by decades of conflict and neglect. Convillies medical staff there say they are also struggling to isolate suspected Ebola patients.
Until recently, patients regardless of ailment were sharing toilet space at a rural hospital. Fixing these problems involves the slow task of building new infrastructure as Ebola spreads fast. For NPR News, I'm Emmett Livingstone in Kinshasa.
This is NPR News. A three-day conference of African and Caribbean nations wrapped up in Ghana yesterday. Participants issued a declaration calling on countries that had been involved in the Atlantic slave trade offer full, formal and unconditional apologies, as well as taking steps towards reconciliation and reparations.
About 12 million Africans were forcefully taken by European nations from the 16th to the 19th century, and were enslaved on plantations that built up wealth for the owners. Police in Chicago are investigating a drive-by shooting in the south side neighborhood last night. Officials say gunmen and an SUV opened fire on a crowd, at least 12 people were wounded
some critically. The US men's national soccer team has won another game at the World Cup, beating Australia to Nil. NPR's Becky Sullivan has more. Australia seemed threatening.
They beat a talented Turkey team 2 to 0, and the Americans were playing without their star-winger Christian Plicic, who hurt his left calf in last week's game and had to sit out. But the US struck first when forward-flar in Balagin took a pass up the left side of the field and sprinted toward the goal. Then when he passed the ball into the box, it bounced right off the shin of an Australian
defender and into the net. Then just before halftime a header from U.S. Defender Alex Freeman made the score 2-0. This is the first time the US men have ever won two games in the group stage of a World Cup, and they've already scored six goals, which is twice as many as they scored in all of the 2022 World Cup.
Becky Sullivan and Pyrnus Seattle. The wind means no matter what happens in next week's game against Turkey, the US men move on to a knockout round. I'm Nora Rom, NPR News in Washington. This is our class.
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