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We start in Colorado and Utah, where three firefighters have been killed battling wildfires along the state border. Both governors have declared states of emergency. The US has seen an unusually severe wildfire season…
Listen + read script →We start in Venezuela. Rescue teams are now in their fourth day of searching rubble after twin earthquakes killed more than fourteen hundred people. Tens of thousands remain unaccounted for. Crews are calling out: if…
Listen + read script →We start in Venezuela, where two major earthquakes have left people trapped under rubble and families standing outside collapsed buildings, calling in to whoever might still be alive inside. The BBC reports vigils are…
Listen + read script →We start in the Middle East. Israel, Lebanon, and the United States have signed a framework agreement aimed at ending hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah. The deal was signed in Washington. The structural fact to…
Listen + read script →We start in Venezuela. At least 920 people are confirmed dead after twin earthquakes struck on Wednesday. More than 51,000 remain missing. Rescue teams from multiple countries have arrived on the ground, but aid…
Listen + read script →We start with the most active military situation on the board. The United States has struck Iran. Al Jazeera and others are reporting that US forces hit Iranian targets following what the Trump administration says was…
Listen + read script →We start in the Middle East. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a framework agreement between Israel and Lebanon after talks in Washington. No text has been released publicly, and the terms remain vague at this…
Listen + read script →We begin in Venezuela. Two earthquakes struck this week, causing widespread destruction across the country. Infrastructure in Caracas was particularly hard hit. Reporting from Al Jazeera points to decades of…
Listen + read script →We start in Venezuela, where two major earthquakes have killed at least 188 people. Rescue teams are working through collapsed buildings to reach survivors still trapped in the rubble. The death toll is expected to…
Listen + read script →We'll start in the Strait of Hormuz. Ships are moving again after the recent crisis. Oil prices have come down. But analysts caution that relief at the pump for ordinary consumers typically lags the wholesale market by…
Listen + read script →We'll start with a confirmed public health development. France has reported its first Ebola case. The patient is connected to the ongoing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where more than 260 people are…
Listen + read script →We start in the Middle East, where the Iran situation is moving on multiple fronts. US and Iranian negotiators are still pushing toward a comprehensive nuclear deal, but the two sides are publicly offering conflicting…
Listen + read script →We start with markets. SpaceX shares fell below their debut price Monday, briefly erasing around six hundred billion dollars in value before recovering about two point four percent. The drop came amid broader turbulence…
Listen + read script →We start in Qatar. At least thirteen people are dead and dozens injured after an explosion at the Ras Laffan industrial zone, the country's main liquified natural gas processing site. Qatari authorities described it as…
Listen + read script →We start in the Middle East. The United States has waived oil sanctions on Iran and announced it will release twelve billion dollars in previously frozen funds. The State Department says the decisions follow Iran's…
Listen + read script →We start in diplomacy. Qatar's Prime Minister told Al Jazeera that US-Iran talks held in Switzerland over the weekend produced meaningful progress after roughly eighteen hours of discussions. He described the sessions…
Listen + read script →We start in the United Kingdom. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced this morning that he is stepping down as leader of the Labour Party and will leave office within weeks. He was visibly emotional during the…
Listen + read script →We start with the biggest moving piece of the week. US and Iranian negotiators met in Switzerland for a full day of talks covering Lebanon, the Strait of Hormuz, and frozen Iranian assets. Both sides described the…
Listen + read script →We start with the Iran-U.S. situation, which has several moving pieces today. Vice President Vance is at a Swiss mountainside resort near Lake Lucerne, meeting with top Iranian officials. Qatar and Pakistan are serving…
Listen + read script →We start in the Middle East. US and Iranian negotiators are meeting in Switzerland. According to reporting, Iran's primary goal at the table is to get Washington to pressure Israel into halting its military campaign in…
Listen + read script →We start in the Middle East. Vice President Vance is traveling to Switzerland for diplomatic talks as the broader Iran conflict continues. Israel carried out strikes in Lebanon that killed sixteen people. Iran has…
Listen + read script →The dominant story across wires today is the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has closed the strait, citing Israeli strikes on Lebanon as a violation of its interim agreement with the United States. Tehran says the strikes breach…
Listen + read script →We start in Gaza. An Israeli airstrike killed a Palestinian family, including two daughters. Al Jazeera reports Israel has repeatedly violated the October ceasefire brokered by the United States. No updated casualty…
Listen + read script →We start in the eastern Mediterranean. A US judge has rejected Joe Biden's lawsuit seeking to block the release of recorded interviews from his memoir. Biden argued the recordings were private. The court disagreed. The…
Listen + read script →We start in the Middle East. Israel has continued strikes on Lebanon even as the United States and Iran finalized a nuclear deal. The attacks are ongoing. No pause, no announced linkage to the diplomatic track. The…
Listen + read script →We start with Iran. The United States and Iran have signed a deal to end the war. According to Al Jazeera's live coverage, Vice President JD Vance is defending the agreement, and the US says a naval blockade has been…
Listen + read script →We start with the diplomatic centerpiece of the day. Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif signed a memorandum of understanding between the US and Iran aimed at ending the war between the two countries. The signing…
Listen + read script →We start overseas. Ukraine launched its largest drone attack on Moscow since Russia's full-scale invasion began. Nearly 200 drones struck the area southeast of the Russian capital. A refinery and a shopping center were…
Listen + read script →The biggest story today is a ceasefire and diplomatic agreement between the United States and Iran. Trump and Iranian President Pezeshkian signed a memorandum of understanding that both sides say is now in effect. The…
Listen + read script →We start in the Middle East. President Trump said Tuesday that the world will find out, quote, pretty soon, whether a memorandum of understanding with Iran will be signed on Friday. He added that if Iran does not,…
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