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What is the current status of the limited cease‑fire and aid delivery in Gaza?
Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman. Israel's military began a limited pause in fighting in three areas of Gaza on Sunday. Officials say the daily ten hour pause will continue indefinitely and allow the movement of some aid into the region. MPR Zelander Beardsley, meanwhile, was in Gaza Sunday on a trip organized by the Israeli military. The journalists were showed aid from the UN that's not been delivered to Palestinians.
This is a desolate place that feels like the end of the earth. There's rotting oil, beans, baby formula, diapers just stacked up, rotting in the sun. There are birds picking at it. And I'm just it's a seascape of barbed wire.
How are the new U.S.–EU trade framework and tariff changes expected to impact American and European businesses?
Elsewhere in Gaza, fighting continued and Israeli forces killed at least 41 Palestinians. The US and the European Union have agreed to a trade framework that would set a 15% tariff on most EU goods sent to the U.S. American goods heading to the EU, meanwhile, would face no tariffs. But while President Trump appears to have scored a major trade deal before his August 1st deadline, Empire Stamara Keith says overall, it's been a rough few years. days for Trump.
The president should have been taking a victory lap about his first six months in office and he and his White House certainly tried to do that, but the questions about the Jeffrey Epstein files metastasized. And then there are the two wars Trump promised he could end as soon as he took office. There is no end in sight to Russia's war in Ukraine. And Trump's envoy, Steve Whitcoff, left Gaza peace talks early because he said Hamas didn't appear to be coordinated or acting in good faith.
What are the latest developments in the Trump administration’s foreign policy challenges, including Ukraine and Gaza peace talks?
That's NPR's Tamarick Keith. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is condemning the Hong Kong government's latest round of arrest warrants and bounties targeting overseas activists. The nineteen include people based in the US who are accused of seeking to overthrow the governments of Hong Kong and China. Jan Comsen Broomby has more.
Hong Kong police have issued rewards for information that leads to the arrest of the group that the city's police allege set up an illicit Hong Kong parliament and constitution, contravening a strict national security law brought into effect in 2020 following mass protests against Beijing's rising influence. In a statement issued by the State Department, Secretary Rubio accused the Hong Kong government of continuing to erode the financial hub's autonomy. Army. Rubio said, quote, We will not tolerate the Hong Kong government's attempts to apply its national security laws to silence or intimidate Americans or anyone on US soil. For MPR News, I'm Jan Kamtenbrumbi in Taipei.
How is the Hong Kong national security law affecting U.S. activists and what is the U.S. State Department’s response?
Officials in Michigan say they plan to file charges of terrorism and assault to commit murder against the suspect in a weekend knife attack that seriously wounded eleven people. Authorities say Bradford Gilly of Afton, Michigan is in custody. They say they believe he did not target anyone specifically when he walked into a Walmart in Traverse City on Saturday and began stabbing people. You're listening to NPR News. Wildfires continue to burn in Turkey this weekend, and they're now threatening that country's fourth largest city. Some thirty five hundred people have been forced to leave the suburbs of Bursa so far, and the highway to Ankara is closed because of the flames. In neighboring Greece and Bulgaria, meanwhile, wildfires are also burning, they're being fed by unusually high temperatures, dry conditions, and strong winds.
Marvel's Fantastic Four First Steps got off to a superstart at the box office this weekend and pairs Bob Mondello as our details.
In the comic book world, the Fantastic Four are known as Marvel's first family.
What are the major wildfire threats in Turkey, Greece, and Bulgaria, and how are authorities responding?
Whatever life throws at us. Face it together.
But in several previous attempts, the company's been unable to get these superheroes, who are variously stretchy, fiery, rocky, and invisible, to blast off on screen, this time looks different. Fantastic Four first steps will take in about a hundred and eighteen million dollars in North America this weekend, and it will collect another hundred million dollars overseas.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the current status of the limited cease‑fire and aid delivery in Gaza?
0:01–0:42
2
How are the new U.S.–EU trade framework and tariff changes expected to impact American and European businesses?
0:42–1:38
3
What are the latest developments in the Trump administration’s foreign policy challenges, including Ukraine and Gaza peace talks?
1:38–2:35
4
How is the Hong Kong national security law affecting U.S. activists and what is the U.S. State Department’s response?
2:35–3:35
5
What are the major wildfire threats in Turkey, Greece, and Bulgaria, and how are authorities responding?
3:35–4:39