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Live from MPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder. President Trump is due to meet the president of the European Commission at his golf course in Scotland today. Terry Schultz reports a European Union is hoping the meeting clinches a trade agreement. To avert huge tariffs on European imports to the US.
With Trump's deadline of August first for a tariff of thirty percent hanging over their heads, an EU negotiating team led by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has traveled to Scotland, aiming to make a deal. Months of talks have failed to accomplish that, although EU officials say they're cautiously optimistic and agreement on fifteen percent tariffs is possible.
Speaking as he left Washington, the president put the chances of success at 50-50. Preparing for the possibility that talks fail, the EU has finalized a list of more than $100 billion worth of U.S. goods on which counter-tariffs would go into effect August 7th. For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels.
It also says it will pause military activities daily in three areas to facilitate deliveries, the BBC Zimir Nata reports from Jerusalem.
Israel denies there's a hunger crisis in Gaza and says it wants to refute the claim it is deliberately starving Palestinians. The Israeli military says its planes dropped seven packages of aid into Gaza early this morning, containing flour, sugar and canned food. Airdrops are a spectacle, and critics warn they're doing more to ease political pressure on Israel than relieve the hunger of Gaza's two million Palestinians.
NPR's Emily Fang reports that doctors and aid workers warn the health effects from prolonged hunger may be irreversible for many of Gaza's children.
In this tent by the sea in Gaza City, Hadaya al Mutawav tries to comfort her baby son, Muhammad. He's one and a half years old and weighs only about seven pounds. She says she can't find food and only gives him water. Dr. Ahmed Alfarah, head of pediatrics at Nasser Hospital in South Gaza, says Israel's restrictions in letting an aide impact a generation of children.
A generation of children who are below three years. Because the central nervous system is nearly composed in this three years.
He warns children like Muhammad who are starving lack vitamins crucial to organ and brain development. Emily Fang, NPR News.
Authorities in Michigan have a suspect in custody in this weekend stabbing attack at a ball march in Traverse City. Six victims are reported to be in critical condition, the other five in serious condition. The Sheriff's Office says that people in the store helped apprehend the man and treat the victims, and that a deputy arrived within minutes and took the man into custody. You're listening to NPR News. At his first town hall in Bonds, Texas Congressman Keith Self took praise from many constituents, while others bashed his Republican Party and President Trump. Bill Zebel with Member Station KERA and Dallas reports on the lively but mostly civil crowd.
Constituents backing self say they want a smaller government that spends less overseas. Others criticize the Congressman's support of President Trump's agenda and say they want him to stop backing ICE agents who wear masks while taking people off the streets. during the town hall self seemed unfazed.
If we're talking about someone that is not in the United States legally, uh on some sort of a visa or a citizen or a green card, if they're not here, they're a criminal by definition. By definition.
Selfstown hall lasted about an hour before some loud constituents led him to end the event, saying it was getting out of hand. I'm Bill Zebel in Dallas.
Firefighters in Greece are battling wildfires across the country with one leading to evacuations in a northern suburb of Athens. Water dropping helicopters are being used to assist firefighters. Greek media showing homes on fire. The fires fanned by high winds are burning as southern Europe swelters under the third heat wave of the summer. Forecasters in the U.S. are warning of dangerously hot conditions in parts of the country today.
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