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leaders to join him in economically isolating Iran with some U.S. allies in the Gulf
“aren't rushing to embrace what the President calls Operation Economic Outcast, as NPR's”
Aobitrary reports. The United Arab Emirates joined Trump's pressure campaign announcing last week it was cutting off all economic and trade ties with Iran. It was one of Iran's top global trade partners. For its part Saudi Arabia's long-backed economic pressure over military escalation to deal
with Iran. But Qatar, which shares a massive underwater gas reserve with Iran, is expressing reservations after the latest raft of U.S. sanctions. Although Qatar was hit hard by Iran during the war and hosted the largest number of U.S. troops in the region, it's calling for a return to negotiations not further escalation.
Meanwhile, the foreign minister of Oman visited Iran this week, the two countries which
“border the state of Hormuz say they're discussing a plan that could temporarily reopen”
the waterway to ships, Aobitrary and Pair News, Dubai.
The U.S. Army announced deals today that could give energy vendors up to $2.2 billion
to construct, operate and own nuclear micro-reactors on five military bases across the country, Derek Operley with Member Station WKMS reports. The deal is a part of the Army's Janice program aimed at using nuclear reactors to curb the country's reliance on commercial energy sources and shore up its electrical grid by providing more base load power.
The Army has struck deals with five private companies to build micro-reactors at Fort Campbell along the Kentucky Tennessee border, Fort Benning in Georgia, Fort Drum and New York, Fort Bragg and North Carolina, and Fort Hood in Texas. The Janice program was announced last year with nine bases initially in the running for
“these nuclear developments, in line with a 2025 executive order from President Trump, the”
Army is looking to have one of these reactors online by September 2028. For MPR News, I'm Derek Operley, in Padoopa, Kentucky. The number of cyclists for ISIS food poisoning cases continues to rise, according to the CDC, more than 17,000 illnesses have been confirmed so far, and Pair's U.S. U.S. U.S. The Gucci reports. This year spread a cyclist's Bora, which causes diarrhea, doors, previous
food borne illness outbreaks from the Bora's head, Listeria outbreak two years ago, or the Jack and the Box E. Coli outbreak in the early 1990s. Sandy Eskin is CEO of the advocacy group Stop Food borne illness. It's off the charts. I don't think we've ever had an outbreak with his many illnesses. Experts say recent cuts across government to public health and food safety systems,
as well as the consolidation of food production, have made it harder to anticipate and respond to outbreaks. You can a Gucci and PR News. Major U.S. Stock Index is closed down slightly today. This is NPR News from Washington. U.S. Health officials have approved a groundbreaking pancreatic cancer drug that offers a new
approach to treating the deadly form of cancer. The first of a kind pill from Revolution
Medicines uses a new approach to block a protein that fuels tumor growth in the vast majority of patriotic cancer cases. Patients take the drug nearly patients taking the drug. Nearly doubled their survival time in a company study. Hundreds are missing, and at least 160 people are dead after flooding in Nepal. NPR's Julia Simon reports scientists say glaciers in this region are more at risk because of human-caused global warming. According to initial assessments,
a giant chunk of ice snapped off a glacier and tumble thousands of feet into a river valley below, a fast-moving mix of water, ice, and rock pulverized everything in its path. Thousands of people live in villages downstream from the glacier. Across the mountains of Nepal and Tibet, climate change is causing glaciers to melt at an alarming rate, and the danger is growing. Millions of people are at risk from these unstable glaciers as the earth heats up,
the main driver of climate change is human's burning planet-heating oil, gas, and coal. Julia Simon and Heronus. Thousands have descended on a small Spanish town for the annual Lato Matina Food Fight. They're sent to pelting each other with up to 165 tons of over-wriped tomatoes. The messy melee takes place of over an hour in Buñol, where buildings are covered with tarps,
held on the last Wednesday of August. Lato Matina began in 1945. The first rules to squash
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