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The Rest of the World Report | October 9, 2026 — Morning Edition · The Rest of the World Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Good morning from Paris.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Rudy Martinez with The Rest of the World Report for Friday morning, October 9th.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look at that.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've made it through another week.
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  SPEAKER_00: U.S. immigration agents shot and wounded a man in his car on Thursday with
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  SPEAKER_00: a five-year-old child present.
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  SPEAKER_00: The shooting happened at around 4 p.m. Eastern in the Marble Hill neighborhood of New York City.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Department of Homeland Security said ICE agents were conducting
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  SPEAKER_00: a targeted enforcement operation in the Bronx.
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  SPEAKER_00: Their alleged aim was to arrest a man from the Dominican Republic with
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  SPEAKER_00: a prior criminal conviction.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Department It said an ICE officer discharged his weapon and the man was injured.
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  SPEAKER_00: It also said he's alive and at a hospital.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mayor Momdani said early reports indicate agents surrounded the man and the child
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  SPEAKER_00: before firing multiple rounds.
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  SPEAKER_00: He also said the child was believed to be physically unharmed,
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  SPEAKER_00: but called it an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation.
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  SPEAKER_00: He wants all ICE enforcement actions in the city to end.
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  SPEAKER_00: The witness said he heard shots and went outside He saw three or four cars
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  SPEAKER_00: and several officers in Isatire.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said that the man appeared to be between 20 and 30 years old and
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  SPEAKER_00: the police arrived 10 minutes later.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said the man was removed from the car only after an ambulance arrived.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Federal immigration agents have shot at least 21 people
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  SPEAKER_00: since President Donald Trump returned to office.
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  SPEAKER_00: Seven of them have died.
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  SPEAKER_00: A Congressional Research Service report says 81 U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: aircraft have been destroyed or damaged in the war with Iran.
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  SPEAKER_00: The report was released this week.
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  SPEAKER_00: It puts the total cost of the aircraft between $1.9 billion and $3.3 billion.
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  SPEAKER_00: It cites figures from the Congressional Budget Office for the cost.
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  SPEAKER_00: The MQ-9 Reaper drone accounts for more than half of the losses,
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  SPEAKER_00: but the list does include an F-35 fighter and an E-3 Sentry,
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  SPEAKER_00: the radar dome surveillance plane.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some of the aircraft in the count may have been returned to service.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know is that the Congressional Budget Office put
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  SPEAKER_00: the top of that range,
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  SPEAKER_00: $3.3 billion, at the cost of replacing all the lost equipment.
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  SPEAKER_00: That assumes the Pentagon sought emergency funding.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whew, here we go.
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  SPEAKER_00: This one's a doozy of a story.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Pentagon said Thursday that the firing squad execution
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  SPEAKER_00: of Nadal Hassan will be live-streamed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hassan is a former army psychiatrist and killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas in 2009.
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  SPEAKER_00: A military jury sentenced him to death in 2013.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Army says the execution will take place at Fort Hood on December 3rd.
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  SPEAKER_00: It would be the first execution by firing squad in the U.S. military since 1945.
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  SPEAKER_00: The last U.S. military execution of any kind was in 1961 by hanging.
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  SPEAKER_00: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pushed for the firing squad.
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  SPEAKER_00: He told a conservative media outlet this week that he wants the public to be able to watch.
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  SPEAKER_00: Asked about any final requests from Hassan, he said we'll see him on December 3rd.
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  SPEAKER_00: Eugene Fidel is a military law expert who lectures at Yale Law School.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said that as far as he knew, live streaming and execution would be unprecedented.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said Hassan would need to sue in federal court to block it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amnesty International knew of at least 17 public executions in 2025.
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  SPEAKER_00: Eleven of them were in Iran.
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  SPEAKER_00: Six were in Afghanistan.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the company that we keep.
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  SPEAKER_00: Translator's note.
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  SPEAKER_00: RTE Ireland's public broadcaster framed the story by what other countries do.
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  SPEAKER_00: They reported that experts know of no other internationally recognized state
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  SPEAKER_00: that televises or live streams a legal execution.
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  SPEAKER_00: It named Iran and Taliban-run Afghanistan as countries known
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  SPEAKER_00: to have held public executions in recent years.
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  SPEAKER_00: It also set the plan against Ireland's own record.
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  SPEAKER_00: Executions there were carried out on prison grounds, and the last was in 1954.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Experts, Say the last legally sanctioned public execution in the United States was in 1936.
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  SPEAKER_00: Saudi Arabia says three people died in Thursday's Houthi attacks.
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  SPEAKER_00: Saudi authorities said Friday that three people were killed and one of them was
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  SPEAKER_00: a Saudia Airlines employee.
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  SPEAKER_00: Many airlines canceled flights to Riyadh and air traffic has since returned to normal.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Saudi-led coalition said it destroyed three missile launch platforms used by the Houthis.
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  SPEAKER_00: Most of Kyiv lost power Thursday night.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mayor Vitaly Klitschko said Thursday's Russian drone strike killed four people
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  SPEAKER_00: and injured at least 19 in Kyiv, up from earlier reports.
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  SPEAKER_00: Energy Minister Denis Shemihal said an energy facility important to the city was attacked.
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  SPEAKER_00: President Volodymyr Zelensky said a Ukrainian delegation will meet U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in the United States on Friday.
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  SPEAKER_00: They will discuss an energy and Black Sea ceasefire.
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  SPEAKER_00: Witnesses report Eritrean soldiers in Tigray.
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  SPEAKER_00: Two residents of Adigrat in Tigray said they saw trucks carrying dozens
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  SPEAKER_00: of Eritrean soldiers drive through the town on Wednesday morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: The accounts could not be independently verified.
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  SPEAKER_00: Eritrea's information minister, Yemain Gebermeskel, denied Eritrean forces were there.
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  SPEAKER_00: He calls the accounts part of an Ethiopian plan to justify a war of aggression
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  SPEAKER_00: against its smaller neighbor.
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  SPEAKER_00: Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Monday that landlocked Ethiopia must have access to the Red Sea.
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  SPEAKER_00: New York Fed reports that tariffs added 2.9 points to goods inflation.
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  SPEAKER_00: By February 2026, tariffs had added 2.9 percentage points to goods price inflation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Without them, goods prices would have fallen slightly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Economists Mary Amidi, Sebastian Hyass, and David Weinstein published the analysis this week.
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  SPEAKER_00: Their sample is 67 non-oil goods categories.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it for this morning's edition of The Rest of the World Report.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for listening.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Rudy Martinez, and I will see you all again this evening.
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