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Chapter 1: What recent actions did President Trump announce regarding the Strait of Hormuz?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Roman. President Trump said today in a post on social media that the U.S. Navy will blockade any and all ships trying to enter or leave the Strait of Hormuz. He also said any ship that paid a fee to Iran to pass through the waterway will not have safe passage through the strait. Trump said the U.S.
Navy will begin destroying all mines that Iran has put in the Strait. He called the mining of the Strait extortion. This morning, during an appearance on Fox News, the president discussed the breakdown of negotiations in Pakistan between the U.S. and Iran.
We didn't get there on the important issue. They want to have nuclear weapons. They're not going to have nuclear weapons. I've been saying that for 30 years. I would never allow that to happen before I was in politics. and that country will not have nuclear weapons. Most countries shouldn't be allowed to have, but that country will not have nuclear weapons.
Trump did say that progress was made on other issues, but he called the leadership of Iran, quote, volatile, difficult, and unpredictable. Leaders from Iran and the United States met face-to-face in Islamabad, Pakistan, for more than 20 hours Saturday. Vice President J.D. Vance left the talks after he said the U.S. made its best final offer.
Reporter Betsy Joles in Pakistan says leaders from that country acted as mediators, but ultimately, the two sides were too far apart on the issue of Iran's nuclear capability to get a deal.
Considering the topics on the table, not really. I spoke to Mohamed Faisal, a security analyst at the University of Technology, Sydney, about this. Here's what he had to say. And we know that Iran's nuclear program has been a divisive issue between these countries for a long time. So getting something ironed out in a day would have been ambitious.
Hungary's longtime Prime Minister Viktor Orban is conceding defeat in national elections that took place today. The opposition candidate Peter Magar has won the election. He campaigned on what he said was rampant government corruption.
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Chapter 2: What were the outcomes of the U.S.-Iran negotiations in Pakistan?
In Nigeria, a local official tells Reuters that scores are feared dead after an airstrike Saturday by Nigeria's military. Emmanuel Akindu has more on the story.
The airstrikes hit a remote market in the northeastern state of Borno, where the Boko Haram insurgency began and where the Nigerian military have been fighting Islamist militant groups. In earlier incidents, Nigeria's air force killed at least dozens of civilians in airstrikes rather than the militants it targeted. The air force has blamed intelligence failings and operational errors.
In February, about 100 US soldiers arrived in the region in a security pact including sharing intelligence and training Nigeria's armed forces. Emmanuel Akimoto, NPR News, Lagos.
And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. Ukraine and Russia are accusing each other of violating a Kremlin-declared ceasefire so both nations could celebrate Orthodox Easter. Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a 32-hour halt to the fighting from 4 p.m. Saturday till the end of Sunday.
Ukraine's military said in that time there were nearly 2,300 ceasefire violations, including drone flights, shelling and other assaults. Russia claimed Ukraine violated the ceasefire more than 2,000 times. Nearly a year after a large group of inmates escaped from a New Orleans main jail, the state has released a scathing audit of the local sheriff's department.
NPR's Matt Bloom has more on key findings.
last year's jailbreak put a spotlight on the city's security failures 10 men some accused of homicide slipped through a hole in the wall behind a jail cell toilet the state's audit was requested by the governor it took nearly a year to complete among the findings staff carried out fewer than 30 percent of required security checks the week of the escape
Sheriff Susan Hudson, who has since been voted out of office, blamed the issue on chronic underfunding. The audit also recommends stricter oversight of overtime pay and cutting discretionary spending on things like new staff uniforms. All 10 men have since been captured and remain in custody. Matt Bloom, NPR News, New Orleans.
In Miami today, the former Mandarin Oriental Hotel, once one of South Florida's most exclusive locations, was demolished by an implosion. I'm Dan Ronan, NPR News in Washington.
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