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Vice President Vance has arrived in Switzerland for talks between U.S. and Iranian negotiators on the ceasefire deal.
“U.S. envoy Steve Whitko often President Trump's son and logic Eric Kushner are also”
there. Pakistan is mediating the talks which you're expected to take place Sunday. But as NPR's DEA had deed reports from Islamabad, the talks come as tensions escalate with Iran saying it's again close the straight of Hormuz. This statement came even as Pakistan's interior minister, Mahsa Nukhavi, met the Iranian
foreign minister, lock these previous visits which revived talks between the U.S. and Iran. It also came as Iran insisted it had shuttered the straight of Hormuz, accusing the U.S. of not stopping its ally Israel of bombing Lebanon, right as reports, at least 20 people were killed. But the U.S. insisted the straight remained open.
Despite the tensions Iran's foreign minister's spokesman said a delegation was heading to Switzerland. Dear Hadeid, NPR News, Islamabad. Southern Europe is once again bracing for unusually high temperatures in the coming days.
“This follows a record breaking heat wave in May and early June.”
As Allison Roberts reports from Portugal, one of the places where a high risk of wildfires exists is a particular concern. Temperatures as high as 110 degrees are foreseen in Portugal's interior with more than half the 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 high 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. He boldly cases continued to rise in the eastern portion of the Democratic Republic of Congo. There are now 900 confirmed infections in 234 deaths and health workers are struggling to trace contacts and isolate people. Emmett Livingstone reports.
“Congo says health workers are tracing 72 percent of the contacts of Ebola patients.”
It aid workers disagree. 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 percent of contacts.
The Tories Health System has been devastated by decades of conflict and neglect. Conbullies 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, I'm Emmett Livingstone in Cancassah and this is NPR News. And a evacuation has now underway in the Utah town of Alberta nearby wildfires threatening that community, fire officials say the iron fire rapidly expanded in size on Saturday and is now burned more than 13,000 acres. Pope Leo visited the birthplace of mother Francis Cabrini on Saturday, and he used the
visit in Northern Italy to highlight the Catholic Church's duty to care for migrants. A new poll meanwhile shows most Catholics in the USA President Trump has been too critical of the Pope, and PR's Jason D'Rose reports on the findings of a recent study from the Pew Research Center. 51 percent of those surveyed say the president has been overly harsh toward the pontiff
while just 19 percent say Leo has been too critical of the Trump administration.
16 percent 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 expressed 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 D'Rose and PR news. With just one round left, Windham Clark has increased his lead at the PGA U.S. open on Long Island to seven strokes.
He opens Saturdays round with the bogey but finished the day at six under par, world number one Scotty Shefflers in a four-way tie for second while Roy Maccoroy imploded with four bogies of the back nine to finish the day at even parp and in a tie for 17th. I'm Dale Willman and PR news. This is our glass on this American life when they mean like it's a good mystery.
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