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NASA astronauts onboard the International Space Station have returned to normal operations after a worsening air leak prompted an evacuation alert. They had been hunkering down in the SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft which is docked at the ISS … as two cosmonauts worked to repair cracks in a transfer tunnel in the Russian module of the space station. Toni Waterman has more.
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US employers added 172,000 jobs in May, beating analyst expectations as the labor market continues to rebound.
The unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.3%.
Ira Spitzer reports.
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The United States has frozen assets belonging to the Cuban President and his family, as Washington continues to ramp up pressure on the island.
Donald Trump called Cuba a "failed nation" and suggested the US may take further action once it wraps up military operations in Iran.
Ira Spitzer reports.
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Ukraine’s President has called for an in-person meeting with his Russian counterpart.
In an open letter Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that it would be wrong to wait for the U.S. while its attention is focused on its conflict with Iran.
Europe correspondent William Denselow reports.
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India and the UK have unveiled collaboration initiatives ranging from critical minerals to education as British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper held talks with her Indian counterpart in New Delhi.
The visit came after the UK Trade Secretary was in India this week to advance the implementation of a free trade agreement.
Rebecca Bundhun reports from Mumbai.
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Donald Trump’s former national security advisor John Bolton has reportedly agreed to plead guilty to mishandling classified misinformation, stemming from a critical book he wrote about his time in the administration..
The case is part of the US President’s campaign to aggressively prosecute his perceived critics.
Ira Spitzer has more.
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President Donald Trump says he will nominate Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to take on the role permanently.
Mr Trump’s former personal lawyer has aggressively pursued his former client’s agenda since taking over the interim role.
Kate Fisher reports from Washington
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British foreign minister Yvette Cooper will meet her Indian counterpart and prime minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Thursday.
Closer collaboration between the two countries as they both face economic shocks from global conflicts is on the agenda. The visit follows the UK trade secretary's trip to India this week to advance the implementation of a free trade agreement.
Rebecca Bundhun reports from Mumbai.
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House lawmakers have delivered a bipartisan condemnation of the Iran war, passing a resolution to block President Donald Trump from ordering further strikes.
It presents Mr Tump’s most significant political setback since the conflict began.
Kate fisher reports from Washington
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The fallout continues over CBS News’ firing of veteran journalist Scott Pelley, who accused the network’s new leadership of a “collapse of values” and trying to “curry favor with the Trump administration.”
Pelley had served as a longtime correspondent on the award-winning television news magazine 60 Minutes.
Ira Spitzer reports.
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The US is proposing new tariffs on imports from 60 trading partners around the world.
The rate of at least 10% comes after the US Supreme Court ruled many of President. Donald Trump’s tariffs were illegal.Three members of the Royal Navy have died in a helicopter crash in south west England.
An investigation has been launched into the cause of the accident, as John Bevir reports.
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President Donald Trump has admitted to lashing out at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Israel's attacks in Lebanon.
The fighting threatens to derail Trump’s efforts to bring the war with Iran to an end.
Toni Waterman has more.
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CLIP: http://fsnradionews.com/feeds/0603-Magyarfrance-pg.mp3Pulte, who currently heads the Federal Housing Finance Agency, would oversee eighteen spy agencies including the CIA and the National Security Agency, at a time when the United States remains at war with Iran.
Democrats and Republicans alike have raised concerns about Pulte's lack of national security experience.
Toni Waterman reports from Washington.
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Reporter Toni Waterman in Washington says Pulte has a controversial record of targeting the president's perceived enemies — and that the cases he has referred have largely fallen apart.
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Toni Waterman, reporting from Washington, says there are fears Pulte could use the intelligence agencies to advance what critics call the president's revenge agenda.
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Iran has stopped communicating with mediators about extending a ceasefire in the war with the United States and Israel, according to reports from two semi-official Iranian news agencies on Tuesday.
The breakdown came as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was testifying before lawmakers on Capitol Hill, where he laid out the Trump administration's conditions for a deal with Tehran.
Democratic senators pushed back hard, with Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey telling Rubio that Americans can see the economic toll of the conflict.
Toni Waterman reports from Washington.
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Toni Waterman in Washington says Secretary Rubio acknowledged that Iran has agreed to discuss aspects of its nuclear programme that Tehran had previously refused to address.
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Fighting continued in Lebanon on Tuesday despite US President Donald Trump's claim that he brokered a halt to hostilities — with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowing to keep striking southern Lebanon and Israel's Defence Minister denying any ceasefire is in place.
Israel-Lebanon talks are scheduled for Washington later this week, but the ongoing clashes raise questions about whether diplomacy can gain traction.
Both leaders face elections in their countries, and the war is shaping their political calculations in very different ways.
From Washington, Kate Fisher has more.
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Kate Fisher, our reporter in Washington, says US President Donald Trump sent contradictory signals about the state of the talks on Monday — dismissing them as boring in one interview, then posting online that they were progressing rapidly.
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Kate Fisher in Washington says US President Donald Trump's contradictory public statements about the talks are making it difficult to gauge the White House's true direction.
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British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's official spokesperson has confirmed the prime minister's WhatsApp messages are set to automatically disappear — a revelation that emerged after a cabinet meeting on the same day as the release of around a thousand pages of documents related to the appointment and dismissal of Peter Mandelson as British ambassador to Washington.
The documents, which cost more than one million pounds (approximately 1.3 million dollars) to assemble, contain messages from cabinet ministers expressing doubt about Sir Keir Starmer's leadership.
The opposition Conservatives say they are surprised by how little of the prime minister's own communications feature in the release, and have accused the government of a cover-up.
Olly Barratt reports from London.
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Olly Barratt in London says the documents also raise fresh questions about Sir Keir Starmer's original decision to appoint Peter Mandelson, with messages showing he was considered difficult to deal with by those inside government.
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Olly Barratt in London says the released messages reveal expressions of doubt about the prime minister's leadership from within his own government, making for uncomfortable reading around the cabinet table.
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Civil society groups in Kenya say two people were shot dead on Monday during protests against a plan to open an American Ebola quarantine facility at a military airbase in the central Kenyan town of Nanyuki.
Kenya has recorded no Ebola cases, and protesters say the facility — intended to treat US citizens exposed to the virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo — would endanger local lives.
Kenyan President William Ruto has defended the decision, saying the United States is a long-standing partner, but a high court has ordered the plan halted pending a hearing.
Chris Ocamringa reports from the DRC.
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Chris Ocamringa in the DRC says protesters are accusing the Kenyan government of putting American interests ahead of its own people.
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Chris Ocamringa in the DRC says the recovery of five patients has given health workers hope, as some people had been avoiding clinics and turning to traditional healers instead.
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Chris Ocamringa in the DRC says the Congolese government is urging calm, saying rising case numbers reflect increased testing and stepped-up surveillance.
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President Trump has named Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte, to serve as acting director of national intelligence, giving him oversight of the United States intelligence agencies.
As a Trump loyalist he has pushed for investigations into the president’s political enemies.
Kate fisher reports from Washington
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Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has flatly contradicted US President Donald Trump's announcement of a fresh ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, saying there is no truce in Lebanon.
Israeli airstrikes have continued across southern Lebanon, while Hezbollah has fired rockets and drones into northern Israel — despite the deal Washington says it brokered on Monday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned he will order strikes on the Lebanese capital Beirut if Hezbollah does not stop its attacks.
Blake Sifton reports from Tel Aviv.
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Reporter Blake Sifton in Tel Aviv says the core problem is that the terms of the ceasefire were never clearly defined, leaving each side free to interpret them differently.
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Blake Sifton, reporting from Tel Aviv, says US President Donald Trump was deeply frustrated with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the escalation in Lebanon.
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Hungary’s Prime Minister Péter Magyar says his government is working to rebuild relations with key European partners after years of tensions with some EU capitals. The effort comes as Budapest seeks closer cooperation across the bloc. Pablo Gutierrez reports from Budapest
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