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Iran is accusing Qatar of holding three of its military pilots who have been missing since March.
“Iranian officials said the pilots were captured when their fighter jets were shot down.”
NPR's Hadil al-Shashi reports. Iranian armed forces missing persons committee said the three pilots went missing early in the war with the U.S. and Israel when their jets were hit by quote enemy defenses and they ejected. In a statement the committee said that the Khatari military was holding them and hadn't allowed them to contact their families or Iranian officials.
Khatari's military said in March that its air force shot down two Iranian bomber jets, but it did not immediately respond to Iran's latest accusations. Iran said until now there was no information on the soldiers and called on the red cross to intervene and investigate the pilot's conditions. Hadil al-Shashi and PR news, Istanbul. The Food and Drug Administration says it's on the ground in Mexico investigating the cause
of contaminated letters that is second almost 10,000 people in at least 19 states.
NPR's Laura Sullivan has details.
“FDA officials say they have initiated an on-site inspection at Taylor Farms in Mexico.”
The farm linked to the largest known cyclospora outbreak in U.S. history. They say they're coordinating with Mexican officials. The FDA says in a statement it's quote confident that all recalled iceberg letters related to this specific outbreak is off the market. Officials noted that the best by dates on the latest packaging has also now passed.
The FDA says investigators in Mexico hope to sample different areas of the facility and the fields. Though critics say it will be hard to gain much useful information now, because too much time has passed. Taylor Farms says it recalled all iceberg letters from the U.S. market on July 17th. Laura Sullivan and PR news, Washington.
Time is running out to register to vote in some of the last statewide primary elections of the year. NPR's Hansi Lowong has details. If you're eligible to vote in Tuesday's primary in Wyoming, in person registration continues through primary day. Delaware and Massachusetts, whole primaries in September. Ellsville voters who haven't registered yet in those states have until Saturday,
August 22nd to sign up online or in person, or to get their mail application postmarked. New Hampshire's primaries also coming up next month. Mail and applications must be received by August 26th and in-person registration will be available at the polls on New Hampshire's primary day September 8th. And if you're already registered, election officials recommend confirming your status and
contact information before the deadline by visiting your state's official election website. Officials can remove your name from voter rolls, especially if you recently moved, change your name or haven't voted in a while. On to the long and fair news. Lowla is now a category one hurricane as it moves westerly towards the big island of Hawaii. The storm has 75 mile per hour winds it could bring between eight to 25 inches of rain.
This is NPR. Employees in China displaced by artificial intelligence have recently seen courts and arbitration panels, within their favor, but workers remain anxious. NPR's Jennifer Pock reports from Beijing. This summer, economic graduate, Lowan Wu took an internship at an AI startup in eastern China,
and says she was shocked. I didn't know how advanced AI was already, she said I feel very afraid. Several courts have ruled that employers adopting AI cannot shift the burden to workers, but China and the US are locked in an AI race. Says Eli Friedman, a professor of global labor and work at Cornell University, you can't say that we want to dominate these industries in the
future and then start clutching your pearls. Plus, it's tough to find a stable job in China's sluggish economy, Jennifer Pock and PR News Beijing. Air traffic controllers at Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport, averted a potential crash Friday, keeping two American airlines flights which ironically had the identical flight numbers apart from each other. The two planes were both identified as American 2482, one was inbound from Chicago,
the other taking off from Phoenix. If both planes assumed the controllers were giving them instructions to fly at the same altitude as they were converging, they might have collided. Controllers noted the discrepancy and managed to speak to each crew separately, keeping them
far apart. One controller said during his career he's never seen two planes with the same
identical call sign in this close. American and the FAA are investigating. This is NPR. The midterms are coming and if you think the news cycle feels intense now, just wait until
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