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weekend. He started off his two-day trip with the country's prime minister. During those discussions, Trump was asked about the drone attack that forced Saudi Arabia to shut down its east-west oil pipeline near the Persian Gulf. Trump said Iran was most likely responsible."
“"Well, I think they are probably, you know, they're on the balls of their feet right”
down, but I think they would have been in charge of that for a while. We've had discussions." Trump has also scheduled to hold talks with Irish President Catherine Connelly. The Saudi pipeline had become a key alternative for moving oil around the state of Hormuz, where shipping has been disrupted for months. It shut down could add even more pressure to energy prices. Stocks on Wall Street for the most part fell this week as energy prices
soared. NPR Scott Horsley reports a market rally on Friday wasn't enough to reverse losses earlier in the week. "An escalation of the US war with Iran pushed crude oil prices higher, retail gasoline prices in the US jumped about 15 cents a gallon during the week. While the price of diesel fuel
“tops $6 a gallon for the first time ever, rising energy prices are keeping inflation elevated,”
consumer prices in August were up 3.4 percent from a year ago, Friday's inflation report
left investors more confident. The Federal Reserve will raise interest rates when policy makers meet next week. Stocks rose on Friday, but for the week the NASDAQ laws 2/3 of a percent, the S&P 500 index fell 8/10 of a percent and the Dow Jones industrial average tumbleed 1.6 percent. Scott Horsley and Pyronyne was Washington. India is hosting the Brick Summit this week and with the presidents of Russia, China and Iran. The multi-country group is looking to give
voice to emerging economies to counter the West, the ZMPR's on-car handicard reports. It's been at mixed record. The Brick's acronyms stands for its founder countries, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Korea. But today it has expanded to include nearly a dozen countries and represents
“around half the world's population. The block was created in 2009 to collaborate on political”
economic and security issues, but analysts say their internal rivalries and differences on the recent wars in Ukraine and Iran have time-meat progress. One thing they do agree on, reducing dependence on the U.S. dollar for trade. And this year, India plans to push for a special
Brick's currency. President Trump has previously threatened 100 percent tariffs if they try to
replace the dollar. The White House hasn't commented on this year's summit yet. It's NPR. The CIA has declassified several dozen presidential briefing documents to mark the 25th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks. The record's detailed intelligence gathered about Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in the years before the hijackings. They trace how CIA analysts understanding of Al Qaeda evolved and how they warned about Bin Laden's plans
for the attack. CIA director John Radcliffe called the release an act of exceptional transparency. A British museum has removed an ancient Egyptian mummy from public display in order it says to respect the wishes of the dead. Figgy Barker reports from London. The high status Egyptian woman named Asru had been on display in Manchester Museum since 1825 when its layered linen wrappings were peeled away, revealing the mummified body beneath.
But now, the 2500-year-old remains have been moved into storage with museum managers saying the removal, quote, "aligns most closely with what we understand about her own wishes." The pit rivers anthropological museum in Oxford removed all human remains from its displays six years ago. And this week, it announced its returning the bones of dozens of indigenous Nagapi people to their ancestral homes in India and Myanmar. For NPR News, I'm Figgy Barker,
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