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What recent developments have occurred in the Israel-Iran conflict?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. Iran says it's halting further attacks on Israel for now. This comes as President Trump says Israel and Iran are, quote, looking to do an immediate ceasefire. He wrote online that final negotiations on ending the war with Iran are proceeding, quote, subject to ignorance or stupidity getting in its way. NPR's Aya Batraoui has more.
Iran's armed forces say Israel has, quote, learned a lesson and said it was suspending further attacks. It follows Iran saying it launched missiles at Israeli air bases late Sunday and early Monday in response to an Israeli attack on Lebanon's capital, Beirut, where the Iran-backed Hezbollah has offices.
Israel says its air force struck back, hitting targets in Iran, including a petrochemical plant. The fighting threatened to reignite and widen a war President Trump is trying to end. Yemen's Houthis say that as part of the, quote, axis of resistance, they too fired a missile barrage at sensitive Israeli sites near Tel Aviv on Monday. Aya Boltrawi, NPR News, Dubai.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he wants the United Kingdom to become the first country in the world... where it's impossible for children to take, share, or view nude images on their devices. In a speech today, Stormer issued a threat to big tech companies such as Apple and Google. NPR's Lauren Frayer reports from London.
The British government says 91% of online child sex abuse stems from images taken by the children themselves. British law requires tech companies to remove illegal content, including child pornography. But Prime Minister Starmer now wants them to go a step further and introduce device controls that detect and block anyone under 18 from sending or receiving sexually explicit images.
Because when it comes to the safety of our children, standing by is not an option.
If tech companies don't comply within three months, Starmer says he'll introduce legislation to force them to. Companies could face fines and tech bosses could be held criminally liable. Lauren Fryer, NPR News, London.
A second case of the new world screwworm has been confirmed at a Texas ranch. The federal government is working to eradicate the parasitic fly. From Texas Public Radio in San Antonio, Jerry Clayton reports, some ranchers want more.
On Christian Biedenharn's family's ranch about two hours south of San Antonio, he says they're hoping for swift action from the U.S. government to produce more sterile flies, which tricked the wild insects into wasting their one chance at reproduction. We need those quarantine zones.
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