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Chapter 1: What negotiations are taking place between the U.S. and Iran?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm. Pakistani officials who have been mediating the talks between U.S. and Iran on ending the war in Iran along with Qatar say the negotiations will resume tomorrow in Switzerland. Vice President J.D. Vance told Fox News today the U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner are there now. He says he plans to join them.
I expect that I will leave sometime the next couple of days. But, you know, it's always a delicate coordination dance and the diplomatic protocols. I got to be honest with you. I don't really understand these things. I've never been particularly into diplomatic protocols. My attitude is let's get on the ground and actually fix these problems. But they want to do a delicate dance.
The Qataris and the Pakistanis want to make sure that we do this in the right way. So I'm trying to be respectful. Given my my position of the last year and a half, I have to care about diplomatic protocols.
Vance says the Iranians are in a much weaker position, that the Iranian military is now destroyed. He said Iran's nuclear program is also destroyed, but the U.S. must ensure it won't be rebuilt. Iran says it has again closed the Strait of Hormuz. Blaming the U.S. for Israeli attacks in Lebanon, it says violate the preliminary agreement signed this week. NPR's Jaina Raff has more.
Iran says it closed the strait to shipping traffic due to what it calls breaches of the tentative agreement it reached with the U.S. the failure to ensure Israel adheres to a ceasefire in Lebanon. Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon killed at least 16 people, including women and children, Saturday, a day after President Trump told NBC News that Israel and Lebanon had agreed to the ceasefire.
Israel has made clear it's not bound by the U.S.-Iran agreement, which calls for ensuring Lebanon's sovereignty and and territorial integrity. Hezbollah says it reserves the right to attack Israeli forces inside Lebanon. Jane Araf, NPR News, Beirut.
Ebola cases continue to rise in the Democratic Republic of Congo with 900 confirmed infections and 245 deaths. The suspected toll is much higher. Emmett Livingstone reports.
Congo says health workers are tracing 72% of the contacts of Ebola patients. But aid workers disagreed. In a Turi province, the epicentre of the outbreak, many people are avoiding hospital and deaths are occurring in communities unrecorded. Some senior aid workers say that they're only managing to trace about 40% of contacts.
The Turi's health system has been devastated by decades of conflict and neglect. Kambali's medical staff there say they're also struggling to isolate suspected Ebola patients. Until recently, patients regardless of ailment were sharing toilet space at a rural hospital. Fixing these problems involves the slow task of building new infrastructure as Ebola spreads fast.
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Chapter 2: How is Iran responding to the recent U.S. actions?
defender Alex Freeman made the score 2-0. This is the first time the U.S. men have ever won two games in the group stage of a World Cup. And they've already scored six goals, which is twice as many as they scored in all of the 2022 World Cup. Becky Sullivan, NPR News, Seattle.
The win means no matter what happens in next week's game against Turkey, the U.S. men move on to a knockout round. I'm Noor Rahm, NPR News in Washington.
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