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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm. Iran today responded to the latest U.S. proposal to end the war. There are few details.
Chapter 2: What recent developments occurred in U.S.-Iran relations?
It appears to focus primarily on reopening the Strait of Hormuz to shipping. NPR's Deepa Shivaram reports President Trump wants to end the war.
The majority of Americans did not support U.S. actions in Iran from the beginning of this war. But among Republicans, there was pretty overwhelming support for Trump and what the U.S. military was doing in Iran. Now, 10 weeks into the war, though, that look has worsened a bit for Trump. Week after week, there's polling that comes out that shows that there's this cave in support among Republicans.
Republicans who support Trump. A recent poll from Marist shows that a majority of Republicans do still support Trump's approach in Iran, but 22% disapprove, and that's up from 15% in March.
NPR's Deepa Shivaram reporting. As passengers disembark from the cruise ship in the Canary Islands, the government in the UK has launched a mission to support one of its citizens on another island. who's become ill with a suspected case of hantavirus. NPR's Lauren Frayer reports from London.
British Army medics have parachuted onto an island in the South Atlantic called Tristan da Cunha. It's the U.K. 's most remote inhabited overseas territory with no airstrip and a population of just over 200 people. The Hantavirus-stricken cruise ship docked there in mid-April to drop off a British passenger who lives there.
Two weeks later, he came down with symptoms and is isolating in stable condition. The Ministry of Defense says six paratroopers jumped out of aircraft in tandem with an intensive care doctor and nurse. Footage shows three parachutes floating down onto an island meadow dotted with corrugated metal shacks. The government says oxygen was part of the delivery.
Two other Britons with confirmed cases are being treated in South Africa and the Netherlands.
Lauren Freyer, NPR News, London. Taiwan has passed a much-delayed $25 billion defense budget. At the same time, the U.S. State Department is warning that delays in a U.S. arms deal with Taiwan will be concession to China. NPR's Emily Fang reports.
Taiwan's defense budget is less than the $40 billion which Taiwan's president had hoped for, but it is an increase from years prior and one that China sharply criticized. This budget approval was held up for months in Taiwan by partisan fighting, but its approval comes just before President Trump will meet with China's leader Xi Jinping.
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Chapter 3: How is the UK responding to a suspected hantavirus case?
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