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Just now, Vice President Vanset, he's traveling to Switzerland today for negotiations
with Iran.
“This is Tehran says it "close the straight-up or moves" because of Israel's continuing”
deadly attacks on Lebanon. And here's Franco or Donus Hessmore. Vice President Vanset, U.S. envoy Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner are already on the ground in Switzerland dealing with some of the technical elements of the negotiations. The claim the ceasefire was going well, and that the straight-up or move 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 or moves.
It is going to take some time to clear those minds, though." And said millions of barrels of oil had recently passed through the straight in the last couple of days. Franco, or Donus, and PR news.
“European Union leaders are split over a top-block official, opening a diplomatic channel”
to Moscow without consulting them. Terry Schulz has more. 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 Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, were among those rejecting it, saying if and 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 Schulz and Brussels. Ebola cases continue to rise in eastern Congo with 900 confirmed infections to 134 deaths
“as health workers struggle to trace contacts and isolate people, and that living stone has”
more. Congo says health workers are tracing 72% of the contacts of Ebola patients, but aid workers disagreed. In a Tory 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're only managing to trace about 40% of contacts. The Tory's health system has been devastated by decades of conflict and neglect. Congolese medical staff there say they're 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 on Emmett Livingstone in Kinshasa. And you're listening to NPR news from Washington.
The majority of Americans who need a kidney transplant never make it onto a organ waiting
list. That's the conclusion of a new study of more than 720,000 patients referred for the procedure. And Pierre's Maria Gadoi has more. Only 12% of people on dialysis are registered on the kidney transplant wait list. Researchers at NYU Langeon wanted to know what kept them from making it onto the list.
They found that patients who were unmarried, lived in rural areas or had severe obesity were less likely to start or complete the needed evaluations. Older, poor, and Spanish speaking patients were especially unlikely to move forward with the process. All told, fewer than 1 in 5 patients referred for a transplant made it onto the wait list.
The researchers say the battery of tests and doctor visits required may be hard for patients to navigate if they lack social support. The findings appear in the journal of the American Society of Nefrology. Maria Gadoi, NPR News The National Weather Service says a widespread storm system will bring the chance of severe storms and flooding over much of the plains and Midwest.
And in the southeast, hot temperatures and stifling humidity are forecast this weekend. Parts of several western states are also under red flag warnings for extremely dry windy conditions that could spark wildfires. Meanwhile, much of Europe is sweltering under heat wave with temperatures climbing toward record levels, Germany issued a nationwide hit alerts.
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