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What is the UN General Assembly focusing on regarding global conflicts?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korova Coleman, as wars rage in Gaza, Sudan, and Ukraine, world leaders are gathering this week at the UN for the annual General Assembly high level debate. The UN Secretary General is urging diplomats to get serious about promoting peace. And Piers Michel Kelleman has more.
Secretary General Antonio Guterres says he has more than a hundred and fifty meetings planned with world leaders this week, and he intends to push them to get serious about peace.
And these is an opportunity we cannot miss.
President Trump is expected to speak on Tuesday. The Trump administration has cut funding and pulled out of some UN agencies, but Gutierrez says the US remains a central player at the UN and has the carrots and sticks needed to help end conflicts. Michelle Kelleman, NPR News.
As the UN General Assembly convenes, more nations are recognizing a Palestinian state. Yesterday Australia, Britain, Canada, and Portugal announced they would do so. France is expected to follow suit this week. Israel has condemned this action. President Trump attended the memorial service yesterday in Arizona for conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The event was part memorial service, but also appeared to be a political rally. During his remarks, Trump said he will make a fresh announcement at the White House later today about a health condition.
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when you have it. Health experts who study autism say it is misleading to reduce the cause of autism to a single factor. Stocks opened mixed this morning as Pfizer announced plans to acquire a smaller drug company. And Pierre Scott Horsley reports the Dow Jones industrial average fell about 140 points in early trading.
Pfizer says it will spend close to five billion dollars to acquire the drug development company MetSera. The company's yet to win approval for any of its products, but it has several obesity drugs in the pipeline. Google is facing another antitrust trial this week to decide what to do about its monopoly advertising business, the Justice Department seeking to break up that business, but a similar push directed at Google's search engine business resulted in a court order for less sweeping remedies. Both Pfizer and Google are financial supporters of NPR. The Federal Reserve's newest governor, Stephen Myron, speaks this afternoon to the Economic Club of New York when the central bank cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter.
Scott Horsley, M Pair News, Washington.
You're listening to NPR news. Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country is willing to extend a nuclear treaty with the US for one year, but only if the Trump administration agrees. The pact is the new start treaty. Currently it's supposed to expire next February.
How is President Trump’s upcoming UN address expected to influence U.S. foreign policy?
Putin's offer would prolong it until early twenty twenty seven. Putin says he wants to avoid a strategic arms race. A Vatican trial that exposed corruption, espionage, and vendettas at some of the highest levels of the Holy See is being reopened today through an appeals process, and Pierre's Ruth Sherlock reports.
It is widely known as the Vatican's Trial of the Century, a court case based on an investigation into the Vatican's failed 400 million US dollar investment in a luxury London property. The defendants were accused of trying to swindle the Holy See for millions of dollars, while they insisted the Vatican had just made poor business decisions. Nine of the ten defendants were convicted in twenty twenty three. Now lawyers are making a fresh appeal, and being admitted into evidence are thousands of pages of WhatsApp text and audio messages between some of the key players that have since become public. Critics say they suggest questionable conduct by Vatican police and prosecutors and even the late Pope Francis.
Ruth Sherlock, MPR News, Rome.
The Jewish New Year or Rosh Hashanah begins today, it's considered as a time of prayer and self reflection.
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