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What updates did President Trump provide regarding the Iran war?
Live from NPR News, I'm Jyle Snyder. President Trump is planning to address the nation. The White House says he will deliver an update on the Iran war Wednesday night. His address follows remarks Tuesday that the U.S. could end its attacks within two to three weeks and that Iran did not have to make a deal as a prerequisite. Trump also criticized allies that have not helped the U.S. war effort.
Contrary to President Trump's comments on social media, France says it has not closed its airspace to U.S. military flights involved in the war on Iran. And Pierce Eleanor Beardsley reports that President Trump criticized France for not being cooperative and said the U.S. would remember.
Unlike Spain's total ban on U.S. overflights, France permits U.S. support aircraft overflights on a case-by-case basis with guarantees they're not used in offensive operations. France has deployed an aircraft carrier to the eastern Mediterranean but says it is strictly for defense measures.
Spain is one of the most vocal critics of the war and has called the U.S.-Israeli attacks reckless and illegal. Italy has denied the use of an airbase in Sicily to U.S. military planes carrying weapons after the U.S. did not follow the required authorization procedure. French observers say Trump is lashing out because he's furious Europeans will not act to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Eleanor Beardsley in Pierre News, Paris.
The head of the U.N. Refugee Agency for Palestinians says UNRWA faces questions of viability, and Pirazaya Petrauri reports on the remarks he made on his last day on the job.
UNRWA Commissioner General Felipe Lazzarini says never in the U.N. 's history has an aid agency come under such attack. He pointed to more than 390 UNRWA employees killed in Gaza by Israeli forces in the war, the bombing of UNRWA schools, and Israeli legislation that's closed its clinics and headquarters in Jerusalem.
Israel says 12 UNRWA staff, out of some 13,000 in Gaza, took part in the deadly Hamas-led attack on Israel in 2023. Lazzarini says Israel's attacks on UNRWA are aimed at weakening Palestinian refugee rights.
The future of the agency is very much intertwined with the future of what the political solution will be in the coming months or coming years.
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