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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone.
Chapter 2: What is the current status of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
In Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ebola continues to spread with more than 670 confirmed cases and over 135 deaths as response teams struggle to bring the outbreak under control. Reporter Emmett Livingstone is there for NPR.
I'm here in Rwampara Ebola Treatment Centre, and I'm in an Ebola ward with doctors going from isolated room to isolated room, checking on Ebola patients. All of us are in full protective gear, which includes a bib, two layers of clothing, several layers of gloves, goggles, a mask, It's difficult to describe the level of discomfort wearing one of these suits.
It's very difficult to breathe and on top of that the goggles fog up so it's also difficult to see.
Chapter 3: How is the situation in Beirut escalating with Israel's recent airstrikes?
These are the conditions under which doctors have to work. The Ebola patients themselves, some of them appear to be in a great deal of pain. We heard some people crying out. The doctors said that at a certain stage of the Ebola virus disease the whole body aches and it's extremely painful.
That's Emmett Livingstone reporting from Auturi, the DRC.
Chapter 4: What challenges does President Trump face at the upcoming G7 meeting?
Israel has attacked the outskirts of Beirut in what it says is retaliation for Hezbollah strikes. Lebanese state media say at least three people were killed, 16 others wounded in the airstrike on an apartment building. NPR's Jaina Raf has more from Beirut.
Israel launched the airstrike as the U.S. and Iran said they were close to signing a ceasefire agreement. Iran has said that any ceasefire with the U.S. must include a ceasefire in Lebanon, and it has warned Israel in particular not to attack the Lebanese capital.
Chapter 5: What groundbreaking problem-solving behavior have bumblebees recently demonstrated?
An Israeli statement said the attack was in retaliation for Iran-backed Hezbollah firing at northern Israel. The militant group has been fighting Israeli forces occupying southern Lebanon and has also fired drones across the border. Video posted on social media showed smoke rising from an apartment building on a residential street in Beirut's southern suburbs, where Hezbollah has offices.
Jane Araf, NPR News, Beirut.
Whatever the outcome of negotiations between the U.S.
Chapter 6: What recent events have occurred in Yemen and Switzerland that are making headlines?
and Iran, President Trump's fellow world leaders will expect an accounting from him when he joins the meeting of the G7 industrialized nations. Former Obama administration advisor Josh Lipsky, now chair of the international economics at the Atlantic Council, says President Trump will not be getting a free pass from America's allies.
The past six months after Greenland and the president's comments about the U.S. desire to take Greenland, you saw a shift across the G7 and especially in the European allies of how they approach the U.S. So don't expect this to just be a warm embrace when President Trump shows up in France.
Lipsky says he expects serious consideration about trade relations with China and overall how artificial intelligence fits into the framework of international relations, regulations and finance. This is NPR. Bumblebees have just solved a problem that for over a century had only been demonstrated by much larger creatures like chimps, elephants, and birds. Ari Daniel reports.
The task involves placing a reward out of reach of the animal overhead and seeing if they can spontaneously figure out how to access it by moving an object beneath to stand atop. Ole Logola, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Turku in Finland, placed bumblebees in a hollow container about an inch high.
It's just annoyingly a little bit too high for them to stand and reach the ceiling, but too tiny for them to fly.
Lugula also placed a small styrofoam ball inside, which the bees appeared to roll beneath the reward, and then climb like a stepstool to reach the otherwise unreachable reward. It's a first, he says, for an insect, and a demonstration, perhaps, that intelligent brains come in diverse shapes and sizes. For NPR News, I'm Ari Daniel.
A 30-year-old daredevil known as the Spider-Man of Yemen died in Yemen this week after falling into a volcano crater. Officials say al-Qaqa ibn Antar had no safety equipment. He was climbing the steep walls of the crater when he lost his grip and fell into the 393-foot crater. Swiss voters have rejected a proposal to cap the country's population at 10 million.
The right-wing Swiss People's Party led the initiative in what was seen as a move against migration. Early results indicated that 55 percent of voters in Switzerland said no to the effort. I'm Louise Chiavone, NPR News, Washington.
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