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U.S. Central Command confirms renewed strikes on Iran, in retaliation for Tehran striking
“a base in Jordan on Friday, killing two U.S. troops, one American servicemen is missing”
and Piers' carry-con reports. According to Central Command, the two service members were defending alongside partner forces during Iranian aerosols when they were killed. U.S. troops operate multiple Jordanian military installations that have come under fire from Iran in recent days.
For other U.S. service members were injured, they were sent to Jordanian hospitals and later discharged. For the seventh straight night, the U.S. has struck dozens of what it says are military logistic and infrastructure sites in Iran. Iran says the U.S. has targeted civilian sites, including bridges and civilian utility structures.
According to the ongoing U.S. strikes, Iran says the preliminary peace plan signed nearly one month ago is now no longer being implemented. Carry-con and PR news to live. The Northeast was hit by fast-moving thunderstorms and heavy downpours that triggered flash flooding mornings across New York and New Jersey on Saturday.
Meanwhile, down in Texas, Governor Greg Abbott said record-breaking flooding this week hit the city of Uvaldee, West of San Antonio, hardened than other parts of the state. International Weather Service said some local airs received more than two feet of rain. Just north of Valdi in Kirk County, Megan Booth and her family run a boutique that was previously damaged by last year's deadly floods.
"We just never thought that this area would receive the type of flooding that it did.
“I mean, it's truly, I think I'm still a little bit of shock."”
Texas meteorologist Bob Fogredi told member station K. Ari and Dallas that the record flooding isn't the new normal, not only was it unusual last year, he adds it was unusual this year, and he said it would not expect this to be something we see more often. Authorities in France have blocked access to the popular prediction market site, poly-market saying it violates the country's gambling rules and can be susceptible to market manipulation,
and PR's Bobby Allen reports. France already restricted access to poly-market, but hundreds of thousands of people were still accessing it through a virtual private network, which can disguise someone's location. Now Paris authorities ordered the country's internet service providers to block anyone from going to the site, switch a limb, Belgium, Spain and other European countries have
also blocked poly-market. And the U.S. meanwhile, poly-market.com is also banned under a Biden era settlement, but the Trump administration has taken a hands-off approach to the billions of dollars of bets
“on the site for things like sports, elections, and war.”
Police suspect one trader made money on a market on the city's highest temperature by manipulating an official weather-reeding device at the Charles de Gaulle airport, Bobby Allen and PR News. You're listening to NPR from New York City. Police in India have forcibly hospitalized an activist who's been on a 21-day hunger strike for political reforms.
The protests by Sonam Wangchuk, a prominent education and environmental activist, his John support across India with millions of views and shares on social media, in Paris, Ankara, Kandakar reports. For more than a month, hundreds of youths in the capital new Delhi have been protesting, demanding India's education minister Dharamindra Pradhan resign.
They blame him for failing to stop a series of exam paper leaks in recent years, which have affected millions of students. Practice with Sonam Wangchuk began a hunger strike to support them three weeks ago and said he would lead their march to the parliament on Monday. But on Saturday morning, dozens of plain clothes policemen entered the protest site and dragged
Wangchuk into an ambulance. Protesters say they will continue with next week's parliament march and have invited more people to join. In Venezuela, bodies are still being recovered from last month's major earthquakes, especially in La Guaya da State, north of Caracas.
Government officials updated the number of dead to more than 5,000. The road's news agency reports civilians may have led rescue efforts during the first
critical hours after the earthquake's hit, not been as well in troops or police.
The acting president of Venezuela said at least 4,000 officials were activated immediately. I'm Dua Lee, Psycho Town, and PR News in New York. The last time Antonio May's senior heard from his son, it was in a note, the 16-year-old left in the family's garage. He told me he was going to make me cry.
Antonio Junior left home to join a protest in Seattle, a week later, he was shot and killed there. Listen to we keep us safe on the embedded podcast from NPR.
