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What is the current status of the ceasefire in the Middle East?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. This is the second day of the ceasefire between the U.S., Israel, and Iran. It is shaky. Overnight, President Trump wrote online the U.S. would keep its military in place in the Mideast until the truce is fully observed. The U.S. is demanding Iran reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has tightened that control, choking off oil shipments. Pakistan is preparing to host delegations from the U.S. and Iran as it attempts to mediate an end to the Mideast war. The conflict has disrupted global trade, killed thousands of people, and scrambled alliances. NPR's Dia Hadid reports.
Delegations are set to arrive for talks on Saturday, according to White House spokeswoman Caroline Leavitt. The US delegation will be led by Vice President J.D. Vance and Trump's special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff. Israel's invasion of Lebanon is expected to be one of the main challenges at the talks. Israel has intensified its strikes in Lebanon since the ceasefire was announced Tuesday. President Trump and Israel insist that Lebanon is not covered by the ceasefire, although it was included in the initial announcement by Pakistan. Iran's foreign minister earlier warned that the U.S. had to choose, quote, between ceasefire or continued war via Israel. Diya Hadid, NPR News, Mumbai.
The Committee to Protect Journalists says Israeli airstrikes have killed three journalists in Lebanon and Gaza. One of the journalists in Lebanon worked for a Hezbollah-affiliated news outlet, while another reported for Al Jazeera in Gaza. NPR's Aya Batrohi reports.
Al Jazeera says its correspondent, Mohammad Weshach, is the 11th journalist from the network to be killed in Gaza. The Committee to Protect Journalists, or CPJ, says Israel's military has killed more than 260 Palestinian journalists in Gaza in the past two and a half years. Two years ago, Israel said Weshach was a, quote, key terrorist in Hamas who posed a threat to troops. The military repeated that allegation in a statement after his killing Tuesday, but did not say why he was targeted now, six months into a ceasefire in which hundreds have been killed in Gaza. Also Tuesday, reporters Ghada Dayech and Susan Khalil were killed in a blitz of Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon that hit Hezbollah and civilian neighborhoods.
CPJ says Israel's attacks on the press should be independently investigated as war crimes. Aya Batraoui, NPR News, Dubai.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer says his party will again force another vote on limiting President Trump's war powers. Schumer says this will happen next week when Congress returns from its recess.
Congress must reassert its authority, especially at this dangerous moment. No president, Democrat or Republican, should take this country to war.
Last month, the Senate rejected a War of Powers resolution on the war against Iran. The measure also failed in the House. Both votes were largely along party lines. This is NPR.
What challenges are expected at the upcoming U.S.-Iran talks?
Federal agents have arrested a U.S. Army veteran and charged her with allegedly giving classified information to a journalist. Courtney Williams worked for a special military unit at the U.S. Army base in Fort Bragg, N.C., The Associated Press and other outlets report that her work dates and some details match a book about the Army's Delta Force written by journalist Seth Harp. Federal forecasters say it's looking increasingly likely that an El Nino weather pattern will emerge this fall. The natural climate shift can have major effects on rainfall and temperatures. NPR's Lauren Summer reports.
You can think of El Nino as the planet redistributing its heat. Warm ocean water develops in the eastern Pacific Ocean, which has a big effect on the atmosphere. Forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration say an El Nino will likely begin this summer or fall. And it could be a big one, a super El Nino. That doesn't always produce big weather impacts, but typically it means more rain in the southern U.S. and drier weather in the northern U.S.
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