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military buildup in the region, Iran and the Trump administration continue to hold indirect talks.
The latest talks were in Geneva on Thursday and included the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency that monitors nuclear enrichment.
Aya Batrawi, NPR News, Dubai.
In addition to ordering non-emergency US staff and their families to leave Israel, the US embassy advised that other Americans may also wish to consider leaving while commercial flights are available.
A similar order was issued for non-emergency US staff to depart Lebanon earlier this week.
Despite these precautionary orders and a continued U.S.
military buildup in the region, Iran and the Trump administration continue to hold indirect talks.
The latest talks were in Geneva on Thursday and included the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency that monitors nuclear enrichment.
Iran's foreign minister says another round of talks with the U.S.
may be held in a week's time.
Aya Batrawi, NPR News, Dubai.
I'm standing immediately next to a really big, beautiful mosque that's towering over me from the 1400s.
And right across from us is this little store selling all this plastic stuff made in China to get ready for Ramadan.
So some of the stuff I'm seeing now are like Ramadan Mubarak trays that you can serve food on.
There's plastic cups with Ramadan Mubarak.
There's even like tissue boxes for Ramadan.
There's lanterns, which is a standard, traditional must-have in Ramadan to put on the table in front of the door of the house, like all around.
The stuff here that I'm seeing on sale, this stuff isn't even going to last a month.
I think it'll break probably by the second week of Ramadan.
Gaza's health ministry says 21 people needing medical treatment abroad and their caregivers were able to leave the territory through the Rafah crossing since that border opened with Egypt Monday.