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What recent developments have impacted oil prices and market indices?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Crude oil prices slide and Wall Street rallies. In the aftermath of Iran's announcement it would reopen the Strait of Hormuz during Israel's 10-day ceasefire with Lebanon, major market indices are each closing up more than 1%. All this provided the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire holds. In Turkey, Duri Buskaran reports on Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Arakci's post on X. Arakci said ships could use a coordinated route determined by Tehran.
That may be a reference to Iran allowing certain vessels to pass through its coastal waters before the U.S. imposed its own naval blockade on the strait. He made no reference to clearing mines in the strait.
That's Duri Buskaran reporting. British police have charged three people in connection with an attempted arson attack on a Persian language media organisation in London.
What incidents have occurred involving arson attacks in London?
We have more from NPR's Fatima Al-Kassab.
London's Metropolitan Police say a 16-year-old boy and two men aged 19 and 21 have been charged with arson with intent to endanger life. Police officers were told on Wednesday that an ignited container was thrown at the offices of Volant Media, the parent company of the news channel Iran International, which has since put out a statement saying it won't be silenced by the attack. The container landed in a parking lot and there were no injuries. It comes after two other arson attacks in northwest London in recent weeks, including one targeting a synagogue and another on ambulances linked to a local Jewish charity. Earlier this week, the Metropolitan Police said it was dealing with an unprecedented level of national security investigations with suspected links to foreign states.
Many, it said, with dangerous intentions. Fatima al-Kassab, NPR News, London.
The then Tufts University student detained by ICE last year for writing a pro-Palestinian op-ed in her student newspaper has settled with the government on her immigration and federal cases.
GBH's Sarah Betancourt has more on the update from Dr. Ramesa Ozturk.
What is the significance of the ICE settlement for the Tufts University student?
was one of Osterk's attorneys.
Lisa can now move forward in her career without devoting another ounce of energy to the Trump administration's baseless campaign against her.
There is no financial component to this settlement. Once the cases are dismissed officially, Osterk will have no pending immigration issues against her. The Department of Homeland Security told NPR, it's glad to see Osterk self-deported and that visas are a privilege, not a right. For NPR News, I'm Sarah Betancourt in Boston.
From Washington, this is NPR News. President Trump's visiting Western states says he seeks to shift attention to his economic policies from the war in Iran. Earlier, Trump said the U.S. is barring Israel from bombing Lebanon, this in the wake of a new ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon.
How is President Trump addressing the war in Iran amid his economic policies?
Trump also said on social media that the U.S. Navy is keeping its blockade on Iranian ports as he pushes for a deal. The U.S. Supreme Court is unanimously siding with oil and gas companies who argue their challenges of environmental lawsuits should be moved from state to federal court. Chevron and ExxonMobil led the company's legal battle in Louisiana over who should pay for degradation to the state's coastline. Recent electoral defeat of Hungary's longest-serving prime minister, Viktor Orban, may have repercussions far beyond that country's borders. Here's NPR's Odette Youssef.
Orban modeled a new kind of autocratic politics that far-right leaders in other Western democracies have copied. They include attacks on so-called woke culture, higher education and independent media, LGBTQ rights, women's bodily autonomy, and, as Jeremy Shapiro of the European Council on Foreign Relations notes, on immigration. They're able to really scare the population with it and create a very restrictive immigration policy, which is specifically aimed at maintaining this sort of purity and continuity of the Hungarian nation.
What are the implications of Viktor Orban's electoral defeat in Hungary?
Orban's loss is raising questions about the future of the global far-right infrastructure he built, namely think tanks devoted to formulating and advancing illiberal policies in democratic countries.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What recent developments have impacted oil prices and market indices?
0:01–0:55
2
What incidents have occurred involving arson attacks in London?
0:55–2:23
3
What is the significance of the ICE settlement for the Tufts University student?
2:23–3:18
4
How is President Trump addressing the war in Iran amid his economic policies?
3:18–4:23
5
What are the implications of Viktor Orban's electoral defeat in Hungary?
4:23–5:03