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What new trade deal did President Trump announce with the European Union?
Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. President Trump says he's reached a new trade deal with the European Union. NPR's Frank Ordonia says the deal comes just days before a deadline that would have kicked off new tariffs.
President Trump met with European Union president Ursula von der Leyen at his golf club in Scotland. The two sides talked for just over an hour when Trump called the press back. Що виднюс.
Uh we've reached a deal.
Under the agreement, Trump says most European Union exports to the US will face a fifteen percent tariff down from the thirty percent tariff that Trump threatened would go into effect on Friday.
How will the EU‑U.S. agreement change tariff rates on European exports?
The US would pay no tariffs.
It's the biggest of all the deals. It will be the biggest of all the deals. So
the deal will not cover steel and aluminum nor pharmaceuticals. Trump said the EU has also agreed to buy $750 billion worth of U.S. energy as part of the agreement and invest six hundred billion into the United States. Franco, Ordonnez, NPR News, Turnbury, Scotland.
Israel's military Sunday held what it's called a limiting pause a limited pause in fighting in three areas of Gaza to allow humanitarian aid to enter the region.
What is the limited humanitarian pause in Gaza and why is it controversial?
The pause will last for ten hours each day. But Rachel Cummings of the group Save the Children says Israel is still not doing enough to save lives in Gaza.
We are seeing an exponential rise in the number of children attending our clinic in the first two weeks. Of July we've seen exactly the same number of children we saw in the whole of June and we're expecting that trajectory sadly to increase.
Cummings was speaking from Gaza. Israeli combat operations meanwhile did continue in other parts of Gaza where at least fifty Palestinians were killed. The Israeli military has once again intercepted an aid ship bound for Gaza. They detained twenty one international activists as well as several journalists.
Why did the Israeli military intercept an aid ship bound for Gaza?
They also seized the ship's cargo, including baby formula food and medicine. The Freedom Fl Flotilla Coalition says the military violently intercepted the ship just before midnight on Saturday while it was about forty nautical miles from Gaza. Wall Street Investor investors are gearing up for a busy week with President Trump's tariff deadline looming and with the Federal Reserve set to hold its next policy meeting. MPR's Raphael Nam looks at the week ahead.
The outcome of the Fed meeting is probably not in doubt. Policymakers are expected to hold interest rates steady given a recent uptick in inflation. But the meeting comes as the president has been repeatedly calling on the Fed to lower rates sooner. Trump has softened his tone somewhat since a tense encounter with Powell when the president made a rare visit to the Fed.
What are analysts expecting from the upcoming Federal Reserve meeting?
Tariff News will also be dominate the week ahead, Trump has threatened to impose much higher tariffs on Friday for any country that doesn't agree to a trade deal with the US. And on top of all of this, we also have a lot of earnings from top companies including Apple, Rafael Num, NPR News. And you're
listening to NPR News. Leaders from Cambodia and Thailand will meet in Malaysia on Monday to discuss ending fighting along their common border. The two countries have been fighting over a piece of land that contains an ancient temple that both countries claim as their own. The conflict has killed at least thirty five people and displaced more than two hundred thousand others. After a promising step in talks about the future of the Colorado River, negotiations between the seven states that use its water appear to be hitting more hurdles.
How are western states negotiating water shares of the shrinking Colorado River?
As Alex Hager of Member Station KUNC reports, they're arguing over exactly how much water each state will get from the shrinking river.
Researcher John Fleck at the University of New Mexico says states are falling back into century old rivalries. He says they admit that they need to use less of a river that's smaller than it used to be, but they're arguing about who should feel the sting of cutbacks and they're afraid to make compromises.
This new method has a lot of promise, but as we work out the details, we're seeing that those old problems are surfacing again and the negotiations as a result just don't seem to be going as well as we had hoped they were.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What new trade deal did President Trump announce with the European Union?
0:01–0:38
2
How will the EU‑U.S. agreement change tariff rates on European exports?
0:38–1:09
3
What is the limited humanitarian pause in Gaza and why is it controversial?
1:09–1:47
4
Why did the Israeli military intercept an aid ship bound for Gaza?
1:47–2:37
5
What are analysts expecting from the upcoming Federal Reserve meeting?
2:37–3:28
6
How are western states negotiating water shares of the shrinking Colorado River?
3:28–4:39