Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Skivone, a new allegation of sex...
reported Monday and Politico has shaken the campaign of the main Democrats seeking to
“unseat Republican Senator Susan Collins.”
Graham Platner's denying accusations of sexual assault by a woman he dated. Platner's accuser, Jenny Rasikot, says on the night when the alleged assault occurred, she had asked Platner not to come to her house. I heard a noise outside my door and then he came in, he just came into my house. It was unlocked, I live in an area where you don't usually have to lock your doors, I do
now. So he came in and I realized, okay, he didn't listen, he's in my home. Rasikot spoke to CNN's Jake Tapper, several Democrats have withdrawn their endorsements, including top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer, Platner says he is considering what his next step should be.
President Trump, at this hour, is in Ankara, Turkey for a NATO summit at top focus
among the allies will continue to be the war between Russia and Ukraine, as the week began a Russian missile and drone attack on Kiev and the surrounding region, left almost two dozen people dead.
“Ukraine's military today is saying that overnight it hit two manufacturing sites, critical”
to Russia's military campaign. President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky are slated to meet on the sidelines of the summit tomorrow, and PR's ideal Alshalshi says defense issues, especially Ukraine, are on the agenda this week. The administration just announced a six-month Pentagon review of U.S. forces in Europe.
So this week, the main issues will include increasing defense spending, investing in military capabilities, and there's going to be a focus on sustaining support for Ukraine to keep deterring Russia. And PR's ideal Alshalshi, two explosions rocked serious capital Damascus this morning, entering 18 people, according to Syrian officials.
The bombs went off near the hotel where French President Emmanuel Macron held morning meetings on his official visit to Syria. He'll be traveling on to the NATO summit. Prince Harry has lost a privacy lawsuit against a British tabloid newspaper. He had sued the publisher of the Daily Mail newspaper over claims of unlawful information gathering
at PR's Fatima Al-Kasab reports. As verdict came as Prince Harry, who is King Charles' younger son, began a week long visit to his home country. Harry, along with other high profile claimants including Elton John, had accused the publisher of the Daily Mail newspaper of privacy invasions, including bugging phone lines and obtaining
personal health records. Earlier this year, he gave emotional testimony in the trial, saying the press intrusion had made his wife Meghan's life an absolute misery. Today, a judge in London ruled against the Prince, saying the allegations required more evidence to be proven.
The publishers of the Daily Mail called the ruling a magnificent vindication of their journalism, Fatima Al-Kasab MP on use. This is NPR. International trade officials say a projectile has hit a tanker traveling south out of the straight-of-war moves to the Gulf of Oman, and the tanker has caught fire.
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations says there's been no environmental impact. Iranian state television said the liquefied natural gas tanker came under attack after ignoring warnings. Hamas says its dissolving its civilian-led governing body, the move comes as Israeli troops pushed deeper into Gaza, where they now control nearly 70% of the territory NPR's
honest baba has more. The announcement by Hamas, these all said the body that swung Gaza's day-to-day affairs from public hospitals to garbage collection. Since the group won elections nearly 20 years ago, the move by Hamas appears to be an attempt to pressure Israel to move forward with President Trump's peace plan, while not addressing
stall talks on the decommissioning of weapons in Gaza and Israeli to withdraw all.
“Hamas says civil servants will continue to carry out essential public services until”
a committee of independent Palestinian and technocracts takes over, as Trump's plan calls for. But the committee's members are a neighbouring unit, and Israel's block them from entering Gaza. Israel before a minister of Gaza are called the move of Hamas at Trick, and the system
of Hamas is disarmament as the way forward, and a small-boat and pure news Gaza.
A third heat wave is moving over parts of Europe temperatures are expected to climb as much
as 18 degrees Fahrenheit above average. Forest fires have erupted in southern France and the Purities bordering Spain. I'm Louise Skivone, and PR-naps. Follow its minimum in wherever you get your podcasts, and we'll break down the zeitgeistie
