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Why is Israel pausing fighting in Gaza and how will UN aid corridors work?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Noor Rahm. The Israeli military is pausing fighting in three populated areas of Gaza for ten hours a day to allow UN convoys to deliver food and medicine. It will also establish new aid corridors to facilitate deliveries. Israel has been under growing international criticism for the crisis in Gaza. The World Food Program says about a third of the two million people there haven't eaten in days. Israel denies it's deliberately starving them. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the UN should do a better job of distributing aid.
Stop finding excuses. Do what you have to do and stop accusing Israel deliberately of this egregious falsehood.
What are the key details of the new US‑EU trade deal announced in Scotland?
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is expected to come up today in Western Scotland, where President Trump is meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. In Scotland yesterday, the US reached a trade deal with the European Union. This comes days before the August first deadline set by President Trump. NPR's Elena Moore reports.
The deal puts a 15% tariff on EU exports to the US. That's a drop from a few weeks earlier when Trump threatened to make it 30%. Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Trump said the deal excludes steel, aluminum, and pharmaceuticals. He also said that no tariffs would be placed on US imports into the EU, and that the EU would purchase $750 billion worth of US energy. And invest six hundred billion into the country.
How are Thailand and Cambodia addressing border clashes in Malaysia?
And this is the big one. This is the biggest of them all.
The EU is one of the US's largest trading partners. Dozens of other countries have also received new proposed tariff rates from the White House, but just a handful have formally announced deals. Elena Moore, NPR News.
The leaders of Thailand and Cambodia are in Malaysia today for ceasefire talks. Clashes along their disputed border are now in the fifth day. Dozens of people have died, hundreds of thousands have been displaced. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Health Secretary Robert F.
What could happen if the US Preventive Services Task Force is dismissed?
Kennedy Jr. may be preparing to fire all the members of a panel that makes guidelines for primary care, NPR's Ping Wong reports.
The members of the US Preventive Services Task Force have backgrounds in medicine, research and public health. Its sixteen members make recommendations for primary care doctors on how to screen, advise, and treat their patients. Dr. Bobby Mukamala, president of the American Medical Association, says if they get dismissed, it's likely to affect the quality of the guidance.
That's just fundamentally not how we should treat the science of screening people for things like cancer, for things like diabetes, for things like cardiology issues.
Earlier this month, the AMA, along with more than a hundred health organizations, signed a letter to members of Congress urging them to protect the integrity of this group. Ping Huang NPR News
This is NPR News in Washington.
Why did Russia launch a commercial flight to North Korea and what does it mean?
For the first time in more than a quarter century, Russia unveiled a direct commercial passenger flight from Moscow to Pyongyang, North Korea. The move comes as the two countries expand their cooperation amid a standoff with the West over Ukraine. NPR's Charles Maines reports.
Russian officials are billing the once monthly flight to Pyongyang as historic, connecting the capitals of Russia and North Korea for the first time since shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union. Yet, contrary to Russian media reports of a sold-out flight, fewer than a quarter of seats were booked, most of them by North Koreans taking advantage of a direct flight home rather than a ten-day journey by rail. The reintroduction of commercial travel comes in the wake of North Korea's military. Support for Russia's war in Ukraine and times with the launch of a North Korean beach resort that Pyongyang hopes will lure thousands of pain Russian tourists to one of the world's most close societies. Charles Maines in PyR News, Moscow.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating an incident at Denver International Airport over the weekend.
Why did Boeing workers reject the latest contract and what are the next steps?
An American Airlines jet had just taken off Saturday when a mechanical problem sparked a fire.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Why is Israel pausing fighting in Gaza and how will UN aid corridors work?
0:01–0:48
2
What are the key details of the new US‑EU trade deal announced in Scotland?
0:48–1:36
3
How are Thailand and Cambodia addressing border clashes in Malaysia?
1:36–2:08
4
What could happen if the US Preventive Services Task Force is dismissed?
2:08–3:00
5
Why did Russia launch a commercial flight to North Korea and what does it mean?
3:00–4:04
6
Why did Boeing workers reject the latest contract and what are the next steps?
4:04–4:38