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Bahrain says it's been hit by Iranian drones, the latest escalation and a series of attacks
“in the region in the past 24 hours, Tehran has not claimed responsibility.”
The U.S. strike multiple sites in Iran on Friday night and what it says was retaliation for an Iranian drone strike on the ship trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz this week. NPR's carry con reports, the latest attacks could derail an interim agreement to and the conflict in Iran.
Bahrain's foreign affairs ministry says early Saturday, the country was hit by a number of Iranian drones calling the attack a flagrant violation of the country's sovereignty. This strikes appear to be in retaliation for the multiple U.S. attacks on Iranian sites late Friday. Bahrain state media accused Iran of "exporting chaos and undermining regional stability
Egypt, Kuwait, and the UAE also condemned the attack. I was after the Bahrain drone strike a UK shipping monitor reported that an unidentified projectile hit a ship in the Strait of Hormuz. This was the second attack on vessels attempting to pass through the vital waterways since
“Thursday, further testing the fragile ceasefire between Iran and the U.S. carry con and”
PR News to live. Hot dry and windy weather is making it difficult for crews battling wildfires and the West this weekend. The cottonwood fire in southern Utah is now the largest blaze currently burning in the country.
Mark Liduk watched through his ring camera as the fire approached his cabin.
"I've never seen anything like that.
I didn't know fire could do that. And literally within two minutes it appeared in my camera and then it was completely around the cabin." Utah has declared a state of emergency and has restricted fireworks ahead of July 4th. The flag warnings are, in effect, in many western states, as officials urge people to
avoid anything that could spark a fire. Tech companies had a rough week on Wall Street and PRs, even the Sahab reports the tech
“heavy Nasdech and the week down about 4.6%.”
The tech sell off hit many of the major players in artificial intelligence. In video down about 8.5%. Google Paracopani alphabet almost 9%. Oracle were the 19%. SpaceX is stock value lost most of what it gained since its initial public offering earlier
this month. The AI sell off comes as investors doubt whether the tech will deliver serious returns after investors dumped hundreds of billions of dollars in the AI over recent years. Investors are also worried about a possible interest rate hike this year. That's after the Department of Commerce reported inflation hit a three-year high in May,
a 4.1% from a year earlier. Steven Masaha and PR news This is NPR. The Texas State Board of Education is adding Bible stories as required reading. Critics argue the titles lack diversity and blur the separation of church and state.
Starting in 2030, 5 million Texas public school students must read passages from the
New Testament, as well as traditional literary works like E.B. White's Charlotte's Web. This enters four disease control and prevention is raising its response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but its NPR's Pinklong reports the risk to the U.S. public remains low. There have been more than 1100 cases and 300 deaths attributed to Ebola, the viral hemorrhagic
fever that is circulating in the DRC and Uganda. The Africa CDC warns it could become the largest Ebola outbreak ever. The steep rising cases and the need for assistance has caused the U.S. CDC to raise its emergency activation to level 1, an agency wide response at the highest level. Dr. Kevin Tatum Stevens with the CDC says that includes stepping up preparations in the
U.S. The reason the risk of Ebola spreading in the U.S. is considered low is because the U.S. has robust domestic public health capacity to contain and control Ebola outbreak. In the past, the CDC has mounted level 1 responses a few times, including to Hurricane Katrina, the 2009 swine flu pandemic, and the 2020 COVID pandemic, Pinklong and PR news.
Your U.S. record-breaking heat wave is beginning to ease in parts of France and Britain, but dangerous temperatures are spreading east, Germany and Poland are expected to see temperatures top 100 degrees this weekend. This is NPR. This is our glass.
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