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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Ronan. The United States and Iran are directly engaged in peace talks in Islamabad, the White House confirmed Saturday. As Betsy Joles reports, this comes as both sides met separately with Pakistan's Prime Minister Shabazz Sharif.
It was unclear for most of Saturday whether these face-to-face talks would happen, and the details of the talks in general before they started were kept under close wraps.
What are the latest developments in the U.S.-Iran peace talks?
Iranian state media has reported that two rounds of discussions have taken place so far, and those talks have been going on for hours. Vice President J.D. Vance has been leading the delegation from the U.S. side in talks that could decide whether whether a two-week ceasefire will be prolonged, or if issues like Israeli attacks in Lebanon will foil the peace process. For NPR News, I'm Betsy Joles in Islamabad.
Two U.S. Navy warships began removing Iranian mines from the Iranian-block Strait of Hormuz, according to the U.S. Central Command. NPR's Franco Ordonez reports.
Two U.S. Navy guided missile destroyers passed through the Strait of Hormuz today. Now, this would mark the first transit of American warships since the start of the war, you know, which began six weeks ago. The U.S. says this is the start of a process of reopening the strait to commercial shipping. And again, it comes as American and Iranian teams are meeting in Pakistan for peace talks.
Additionally, the U.S. plans to deploy underwater drones to assist in the clearance effort in the coming days. Negotiations are expected next Tuesday on another phase of the war, Israel's military action against its neighbor Lebanon. Ambassadors are planning to meet in Washington, D.C. David Miliband is the former British National Foreign Secretary. He now heads the International Rescue Committee. He says the situation in Lebanon is desperate.
The situation in Lebanon is a new scale of catastrophe. One in five people forced from their homes, only 150,000 of the million plus people displaced in government shelters. So people sleeping on the floors of relatives, the floors of friends, a few thousand also in tents in Beirut. It's an extraordinary city. You can drive past the Beirut Yacht Club and outside the Beirut Yacht Club, there are people in tents who've been forced from their homes.
At least three people died in the latest attacks by Israel on suspected Hezbollah sites in Lebanon. Several prominent Democratic Party officials in California, including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, are calling for Congressman Eric Solwell to drop out of the race for governor. This after numerous women are alleging sexual misconduct. including one woman who says she was sexually assaulted by the congressman when she was working for him. NPR has not independently verified the allegation, first published in the San Francisco Chronicle and on CNN. You're listening to NPR. Worldwide, roughly a quarter of all mammals are hunted, trapped, or bought and sold as part of wildlife trade. As NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports, this trade is a major route for animal diseases.
Scientists have traced many human diseases to contact with wild animals. Ebola outbreaks can be sparked by interacting with bats, HIV likely jumped to humans through a hunted primate, and studies suggest COVID-19 came from a live animal market where lots of species were kept in close quarters. But these anecdotal examples don't say much about how risky trading wildlife is generally. New research in the journal Science suggests vary. It found 41% of traded mammals shared at least one pathogen with humans, while just 6% of non-traded ones did. And the longer humans have been trading animals, the more viruses they share. For every decade in the wildlife trade, an additional new pathogen jumps to humans.
Jonathan Lambert, NPR News.
A federal judge Friday extended his block on a proposed $6.2 billion merger of the television giants Nexstar and Tegna while he decides if a longer review of the deal is necessary. The attorneys generals from eight states and satellite provider DirecTV sued to block the deal, claiming it would harm local journalism and raise prices to customers.
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