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Friends of Republican Senator Lindsey Graham are offering their thoughts on the 71-year-old
from South Carolina. After he died overnight from what a doctor says was a torn aorta. Jeff Lake worked with Graham while he served as a Senator from Arizona. He says Graham was someone who held strong views about the role of Congress. Lindsey, like I said, he was an old-time poll.
He had voted for President Obama's nominees to the court and for ambassadorships for cabinet positions and he was very bipartisan in that way. Graham spoke with President Trump about his recent trip to Ukraine just before he died. The U.S. has launched another round of strikes against Iran and says they are over in response to an Iranian attack on Saturday.
Those strikes then prompted Iran to attack several Middle Eastern countries.
“The attacks involve the status of a straight-of-war moves which is a key global trade route”
NPR Shannon Bond reports. Iran fired at and disabled a commercial container ship passing through the straight-of-war moves on Saturday. It said ships were attempting to "travel along an unapproved route." Tehran said the straight is closed to transit entirely amid the latest round of hostilities
with the U.S. But President Trump rejected that claim speaking to NBC's meet the press on Sunday. "It's open. We bombed the hell out of him last night." U.S. Central Command says it's striking targets in Iran and retaliation, to quote, "continue
to degrading their ability to attack civilian mariners and commercial ships freely transiting the straight-of-war moves." Shannon Bond and Pianis
“The head of the World Health Organization says that his agency is facing complex challenges”
as it tries to deal with the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Michael Kalki has more on our story. In his statement, the WHO's Director-General Ted Rosgibre Sus said that insecurity in the Congo continues to hamper efforts by his team to respond to the outbreak, adding that mistrust among community members also poses a challenge.
Earlier last month, a report by Congolese authorities said the presence of armed groups in parts of the country was continuing to limit humanitarian access to several areas that either had been hit by the Ebola outbreak or were at risk of being affected by the disease. Meanwhile, the UN's World Food Program warned today that the outbreak in Congo could lead to a sharp increase in severe hunger in the country, for and pair news on Michael
Kalki in Nairobi. Firefighters in Spain say that they are continuing to struggle with one of that country's "deadliest wildfires."
“The fire broke out on Thursday and it's now burned about 25 square miles of mostly forest”
and farmland. At least 12 people have died in the fire, including two who are presumed to be British nationals. The fire is being driven in part from a major heat wave underway in Spain and France, temperatures there are reaching as high as 104 degrees.
You're listening to NPR news. Officials in Vietnam have now detained the captain of a speedboat that capsized off the southern part of the country Saturday. 15 Indian tourists were killed in the incident at 16 survivors, and now been discharged from the hospital.
Tennis Italy's Yonnexenter is one of the men's single tournaments at Wimbledon for a second
straight year, Vicki Barker reports from London. German-born Alexander Svarev came to Wimbledon, fresh from winning the French open, and won the first set, 7-6. But World No. 1 Yonnexenter fought back hard, dominating the next three sets, and overpowering his opponent, as he had in all nine of their previous encounters.
At one point, Svarev slipped and fell, rocking on his back in apparent agony and clutching his right knee, sinner ran to his side of the net and helped him up and play resumed to applause from a center court crowd that included Prince William, wife Kate, and two of their three children, George and Charlotte. The final score was 67, 76, 6, 3, 6, 4.
For NPR news, I'm Vicki Barker in London. Disney's live action movie Mona took first place this weekend in North America, theaters, but it did not make the big splash that was expected to film earned $43 million domestically with an additional 52 million in international sales. The movie cost a reported $250 million to make.
Minions and monsters dropped to second, bringing in another $20.5 million, it's worldwide
two week total is $280 million, and Toy Story 5 landed in third with $18.5 million. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.
