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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone. In the Middle East, for the first time in two years, Hamas no longer holds living Israeli hostages. All 20 remaining captives have been turned over to Israel. The release coming as President Trump arrived in Israel for the next stage in a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal. As the Knesset gathered in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had effusive praise for the Trump proposals.
A proposal that opens the door... to an historic expansion of peace in our region and beyond our region. Mr. President, you are committed to this peace. I am committed to this peace. And together, Mr. President, we will achieve this peace.
Netanyahu's office citing Jewish holidays has knocked down Egyptian reports that he'll participate in today's peace talks in Egypt. The ceasefire in Gaza is now on its fourth day. Israel is set to release nearly 2,000 detainees and prisoners and significantly more aid is poised to flow into Gaza. NPR's Aya Batrawi has the latest.
The UN humanitarian agency OCHA says real progress is underway with cooking gas entering Gaza for the first time in months. People in Gaza have been burning plastic, clothes, wood, tires and other items to bake bread and boil lentils and pasta. The UN says it was also able to bring in more tents for displaced families, frozen meat, fresh fruit, flour, and medicines on Sunday.
What recent developments occurred in the Middle East regarding hostages?
It says aid groups distributed thousands of hot meals and bread bundles. Israel is easing restrictions on aid into Gaza as part of the ceasefire deal. Aid groups had called Israel's restrictions collective punishment as cases of severe malnutrition and deaths from hunger spiked in recent months. Aya Batraoui, NPR News, Dubai.
Thousands of federal workers received layoff notices Friday as the government shutdown continues today into day 13. NPR's Stephen Fowler reports.
About 4,000 people from at least seven agencies received these reduction-in-force notices Friday. That includes places like the IRS, the Education Department, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. A quarter of those layoffs were with the Department of Health and Human Services, with hundreds of firings slated for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
What are the implications of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal in Israel?
But on Saturday, some CDC employees started learning their lab notices were reversed. That includes some of the so-called disease detectives who work on investigating outbreaks. Stephen Fowler, NPR News, Atlanta.
The Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to Joel Mocher, Philip Aguillon, and Peter Howitt. The awards committee noted each of the scholars had conducted research demonstrating how technology can drive sustained growth. Mocher has been a professor of economics and history at Northwestern University. Peter Howitt is at Brown University. Philip Aguillon is an economics professor at Collège de France and at the London School of Economics. This is NPR News in Washington. In Alaska, the remnants of Typhoon Halong tore through remote parts of the state with hurricane-force winds and devastating flooding. Rescue aircraft were dispatched to small Alaskan villages in the western part of the state, where as many as 20 people were potentially unaccounted for.
The state's emergency management office says there have been reports that some homes floated away, possibly with people inside. This Halloween might be the year of chewy and milky fruity treats instead of chocolate, as more shoppers are spooked by higher prices. This amid a global cocoa shortage.
NPR's Alina Selyuk reports. Federal data shows that the price of candy and chewing gum has grown more than 8% over the past year. That's largely because of cocoa prices at historic highs, thanks to several harvest shortfalls in West Africa, where most of the world's cocoa grows. This has brands getting creative to cut costs.
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