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What is the current status of the Israel‑Gaza pause and how is aid being delivered?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Sang. Israel is pausing fighting to allow aid into Gaza. Amid an international outcry over worsening humanitarian conditions and starvation on the ground. And Pierre's Eleanor Beardsley reports the Israeli military took journalists into a sliver of the enclave to try to show their side of the story.
We rode over the Karom Shalom crossing near Egypt in the back of military trucks. A place that once bustled with aid trucks appeared desolate. There was just desert, barbed wire fences, and searing heat. Sporadic gunfire and heavy artillery could be heard in the distance. We were shown a massive asphalt parking lot with thousands of tons of uncollected aid and told it was the fault of the UN. Brigadier General Effie Defren says the army is doing its job.
It's not fun being in Gaza, we understand that. But we are doing our best, being creative, to distribute food to the people of Gaza.
Contrary to aid agencies and NPR and others reporting on the ground, Defren said there is no starvation in Gaza. He claimed most pictures showing starvation are Hamas propaganda fakes.
A major Russian airline and its affiliates have canceled over a hundred flights after experiencing a disruption to their IT systems. Pro Ukrainian activists are taking credit for the outage and Here's NPR's Jenna McLaughlin.
The largest airline in Russia, Aeroflot, says it's making emergency adjustments to its flight schedule after experiencing a major IT outage. Russian officials said they were working to rebook passengers on alternative flights, but the disruption has already led to long lines at the airport. Russia's prosecutor general's office appears to have opened a criminal case in response. A pro-Ukrainian hacker group claimed credit for the outage on social media, saying it partnered with other groups. Throughout Russia's years long war in Ukraine, activist hacking groups and government cyber operations have been important elements of ongoing Ukrainian resistance. Jenna McLaughlin, NPR News.
Former North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper will seek the Democratic nomination for US Senate next year.
How did Israeli officials explain the shortage of aid and deny starvation in Gaza?
Bradley George of Member Station W UN C reports the state is one of a handful Democrats hope to win next year.
Cooper spent his career in North Carolina politics as a state lawmaker, attorney general, and two terms as governor before leaving office in January. Now he's hoping for a Senate seat, making his run official via video announcement. I never really wanted to go to Washington. I just wanted to serve the people of North Carolina right here where I've lived all my life. But these are not ordinary times. Cooper says he's running to protect the middle class and healthcare programs like Medicaid. His announcement comes after Republican Senator Tom Tillis announced he would not run for a third term. Former GOP chairman Michael Watley is seeking his party's nomination. President Trump endorsed him last week.
That's Bradley George. It's NPR. Project twenty twenty five architect Paul Dans is the latest Republican running to unseat incumbent Lindsey Graham in the GOP primary in South Carolina. In an interview with the Associate of Press Stance praises the government wide Cuts and says there is more work to do in quote closing the door on the progressive era. Coach Dion Sanders says he had bladder cancer. Today the University of Colorado football coach announced he'd undergone surgery to remove his bladder. At a news conference, Sanders wore a cowboy hat and sunglasses. Which he took off and said, Quote, That was a fight, but we made it. The fifty seven year old Sanders says he plans to coach this season. A large news study finds that lifestyle changes can improve the memory and thinking of people in their sixties and seventies.
And Pierce John Hamilton reports from the Alzheimer's Association International Meeting in Toronto.
The study involved more than twenty one hundred people from sixty to seventy-nine who did not exercise regularly or follow a healthful diet. Half devised their own program for a healthier lifestyle, the other half did aerobic exercise four times a week, followed a heart healthy diet, and did online brain training.
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