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The United Arab Emirates says it's suspending all trade with Iran after it came
“under Iranian missile attack and PRs had deal all-shalty reports.”
The Emirati Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that it was halting all trade, commercial exchanges, and financial transactions with Iran until further notice after what it called "regional escalations." On Tuesday, the UAE's Defense Ministry said Iranian missiles fell in open water. The Iranian Foreign Minister denied the allegation.
The UAE came under intense fire as Iran targeted U.S. installations in the Gulf and Jordan, at the beginning of the almost six-month war that shows no sign of ending. The latest sanction will put increasing pressure on Iran as the U.S. prepares to expand its economic restrictions on the country. Hedil al-Alshalty and PR News Istanbul.
The Navy has confirmed that a destroyer with a destroyer with about 300 sailors suffered a major breakdown in the Pacific Ocean last month that left it without power for four days. A Navy spokesperson says generators on the U.S. has been fooled malfunctioned. Crew went without drinking water, meals, functioning toilets, air conditioning for four days.
The incident was first reported by U.S. Naval Institute News that Pentagon has been grappling
with questions about sailors' mental health and the military's ability to supply ships during the Iran war. Hedil had a culture that obsessed with user numbers and pushed safety to the side, and according to testimony from a former employee turned whistleblower. PR's John Rooch has more on the landmark child's safety trial under way in California.
Arturo Behr worked as an employee and consultant in Meta, focused on user safety. He testified that the culture of the company, created by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, made it "practically impossible to effectively address known risks to teens." Behr said features that the company has introduced are "designed to fail because they're optional and not the default."
“Behr is a key witness for a consortium of states that have sued Meta, alleging that”
it violated consumer protection and child data protection laws, and lied to the public about risks its platforms posed, met a denies the accusations, and a note the Chan Zuckerberg initiative a charity founded by Zuckerberg and his wife is a financial supporter of NPR. John Rooch and PR News Mederna shares more than double after announcing initial results of an experimental cancer
treatment. The company has been studying a treatment for the deadly skin cancer melanoma. It combines Mederna's M-R-N-A-based cancer therapy with K-Trota, a drug maker by pharmaceutical company Mark. The treatment improved outcomes for melanoma patients who have already had surgery to remove
their cancer. The new results have not yet been peer reviewed or published in a medical journal. Any federal reserve officials think the central bank will have to lift its key short-term interest rate in the coming months if inflation doesn't subside.
“It's according to minutes of last month's Fed meeting released today.”
U.S. stocks rose today. This is NPR News from Washington. The Ebola outbreak in Congo has reached 5,000 cases as responders warn it is spreading an unprecedented speed outpacing efforts to slow it in the country's remotest regions. There have been more than 2,300 deaths as of Sunday.
The outbreak has infected and killed more people at a greater speed than any other outbreak in history. Much of Arizona is under an extreme heat warning. Around Phoenix, 81 heat-related deaths have been confirmed this year. More than double the number reported at this point last summer.
From member station KJZZ, Katherine Davis Young has more. Maricopa County had seen decreases in heat-related deaths for the last two years after the local government's made major investments to combat the problem. Officials say it's too early to know why the trend now appears to be reversing. But this year, dangerous heat did start much earlier than ever before.
Phoenix hit triple digits in mid-March, Kelly Donnelly Williams with the County Public Health Department says most cooling centers in the area don't open until May. And so when we see those temperatures that early in the year, it's dangerous. More than 500 possible heat-related deaths remain under investigation. With more scorching heat still in the forecast.
For NPR News, I'm Katherine Davis Young in Phoenix.
China has recaptured the first stage of a rocket on land for the first time, according
to state media. The rocket stage recovery is also China's first use of deployable landing legs. Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos's blue origin have been recovering rockets since 2015, helping drive-down launch costs by reusing hardware. This is NPR News.
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