"Li from NPR News in Washington, I'm Chanyeen Herbst.
Vice President Vance is heading to Switzerland, for talks between U.S. and Iranian negotiators,
“on ending the war president Trump and Israel started more than three months ago.”
He says special envoy Steve Wikhoff and President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner are already there. Meanwhile, there is confusion over the status of the strain of Hormuz. Iran says it's closed because Israel continues its deadly bombing campaign on the Iranian and back to militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon, but Vance says the straight is open to
ship traffic. "No, we're not seeing any evidence that the Iranians are still closing down the straight of Hormuz. It is going to take some time to clear those minds, though." Speaking there, too, Fox News.
Israeliirstrikes in Lebanon today killed at least 16 people, including children and Lebanese Army's soldier, according to officials. This despite a ceasefire between Israel and the Iran-supported Hezbollah was announced yesterday.
“And here's Jainarav visited Navatia earlier this week, which is still a center of fighting.”
"There is an awful lot of destruction, including downtown in the historic Ottoman era market, hundreds of years old. All of that was heavily damaged." "We met one of the town residents, Najib Ayad, a little further into the city. He was returning briefly to see the damage to his apartment.
There was a sound of artillery in the distance, and it's he's smoke rising. But inside, all the glass had been blown out, including the balcony doors." "You see what it looks like? From his balcony, you can see the buffered castle. It's a crusader Arafortris on a strategic hill that's now occupied by Israeli forces."
"He said that as long as Israeli forces are that close, he could never move back.
There are now more than 1 million people displaced in Lebanon. Some had tried to return, but recent fighting has driven them out again." "He appears, Jainarav reporting."
“Southern Europe is once again racing for unusually high temperatures in the coming days,”
following a record breaking heat wave that happened in May and in early June. Allison Roberts reports from Portugal, one of the places where a high risk of wildfires is of a particular concern. Temperatures as high as 110 degrees of foreseen in Portugal's interior, with more than half a country at maximum fire risk by Tuesday, with nighttime temperatures in many areas
stuck above 70 degrees in a country where most homes lack air conditioning, health officials are on higher alert. Authorities are appealing to people not to observe the St. John's Eve tradition on August 23rd, a releasing hot air balloons with open flames. Neighboring Spain and France are also expecting unusually high temperatures, though meteorologists
dismiss suggestions these could go up to 120 degrees. For MP on news, I'm Allison Roberts in Lisbon. And you're listening to MPR news from Washington. A massive fire in the Dominican Republic yesterday nearly destroyed a luxury resort, forcing nearly 1,700 tourists to evacuate.
The Viva Dominicus Beach by Windam is a popular destination for U.S. and international tourists on the Dominican Republic's south-eastern coast. Now, the cause of the blazes under investigation, fire officials, though say it apparently spread quickly because of wind and also the part of the resort's roof was made of thatch. Hopefully, I've visited the birthplace of Mother Francis Cabrini today, using the visit
in northern Italy to highlight the Catholic Church's duty to care for migrants. Meanwhile, a new poll shows most Catholics in the U.S., a president Trump has been to
critical of the Pope, and here's Jason DeBros reports on the findings of a recent study
from the Pew Research Center. 51% of those surveyed say the president has been overly harsh toward the pontiff, while just 19% say Leo has been to critical of the Trump administration. 16% of American Catholics say the Pope hasn't been critical enough. The Pew poll also finds that nearly eight in ten approve of the first U.S. foreign Pope
overall, not surprisingly Catholic Democrats and independent express somewhat more favorable views of Leo than Catholic Republicans. Pew Research conducted the poll in late May and early June in the wake of public tensions between President Trump and Pope Leo over the war with Iran. Jason DeBros and PR News
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