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The Rest of the World Report | October 19, 2026 — Morning Edition · The Rest of the World Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: morning from Paris.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Rudy Martinez with The Rest of the World Report for Monday morning, October 19th.
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  SPEAKER_00: President Donald Trump defended his decision on Russia in a Truth Social post
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  SPEAKER_00: on Sunday and wrote that Ukraine's president does not want to end the war.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump wrote that he is negotiating peace between Russia and Ukraine and
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  SPEAKER_00: that Russia is doing very little, if anything, to help Iran.
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  SPEAKER_00: He wrote that Vladimir Zelensky,
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  SPEAKER_00: quote, doesn't want to end this war and probably never did, close quote.
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  SPEAKER_00: He also wrote that Ukraine is targeting Russian diesel refineries.
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  SPEAKER_00: The attacks, he wrote, are hurting world diesel markets, including the American one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Two days earlier,
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump had waived most of the sanctions and tariffs in the Graham Act,
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  SPEAKER_00: the bipartisan Russia sanctions law he signed last month.
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  SPEAKER_00: He did so days before the sanctions were due to take effect.
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  SPEAKER_00: On October 9th,
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  SPEAKER_00: he had announced that Russia would supply more than 300,000 metric tons of diesel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Treasury Secretary Scott Besant said in an interview on Sunday
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  SPEAKER_00: that no sanctions have been lifted.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said the only thing lifted was the diesel embargo.
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  SPEAKER_00: He called reckless Zelensky's claims that a message from
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  SPEAKER_00: the American government led SpaceX to limit Ukraine's Starlink feed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Zelensky said on a U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: television program on Sunday that waiving the sanctions,
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  SPEAKER_00: quote, will hurt Ukraine, close quote.
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  SPEAKER_00: He also posted on X about talks with U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ukraine, he wrote, is doing everything on its part.
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  SPEAKER_00: To make them happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Uzbekistan for talks
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  SPEAKER_00: with Central Asian leaders denied that Washington had paused intelligence sharing
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  SPEAKER_00: with Ukraine, as Kiev authorities have claimed.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said Zelensky should be focused on ending the war.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump has waived most of the sanctions in a Russia sanctions law
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  SPEAKER_00: that he signed last month, and he says he's negotiating peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: His Treasury Secretary says none have been lifted.
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  SPEAKER_00: Zelensky says the waivers damage Ukraine,
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  SPEAKER_00: and Rubio denies the United States has paused intelligence sharing with Kyiv.
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  SPEAKER_00: Russia's defense ministry said Monday it carried out a,
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  SPEAKER_00: quote, massive strike, close quote, on Kyiv and the capital region.
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  SPEAKER_00: The ministry said it targeted military industrial facilities,
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  SPEAKER_00: storage sites for cruise missiles and drones, and data centers.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is Russia's account.
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  SPEAKER_00: Explosions hit Kyiv on the evening of October the 18th
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  SPEAKER_00: as Russia launched ballistic missiles at the capital.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mayor Vitaly Klitschko said a medical center in the Desnyansky district was hit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another building was hit in the Deniprovsky district.
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  SPEAKER_00: Across Ukraine,
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  SPEAKER_00: regional authorities said on October 18 that Russian attacks over
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  SPEAKER_00: the past day had killed at least 10 civilians and injured 73.
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  SPEAKER_00: Russian drones also hit an industrial facility in Manavichy in western Ukraine's Volna region.
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  SPEAKER_00: It started a large fire.
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  SPEAKER_00: Governor Roman Romanuk reported no casualties.
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  SPEAKER_00: Russian officials said a Ukrainian drone attack hit St. Petersburg on October 18.
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  SPEAKER_00: Governor Alexander Beglov reported fires at the St.
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  SPEAKER_00: Petersburg Oil Terminal and Ruchi Oil Depot.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said one person was killed and five injured and that 12 apartment buildings
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  SPEAKER_00: and two houses were damaged.
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  SPEAKER_00: Russian state media,
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  SPEAKER_00: citing Leningrad Oblast Health Committee,
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  SPEAKER_00: later said the number of injured had risen to 10.
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  SPEAKER_00: The social network VK said a drone had attacked its data center
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  SPEAKER_00: and its services remained operational.
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  SPEAKER_00: The governor of Leningrad Oblast,
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  SPEAKER_00: Alexander Drozdenko, said 127 Ukrainian drones were shot down over the region.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ukrainian drone maker Firepoint claimed its FP-1 drone struck the terminal.
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  SPEAKER_00: The targets and the extent of the damage could not be independently verified.
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  SPEAKER_00: A drone also exploded in Lithuanian airspace on October 18.
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  SPEAKER_00: Debris was found near a village in northern Lithuania.
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  SPEAKER_00: NATO fighters were scrambled but could not identify the object because of clouds,
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  SPEAKER_00: and they did not try to shoot it down.
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  SPEAKER_00: Residents were sent to shelters, and a civilian vehicle was damaged.
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  SPEAKER_00: There were no casualties.
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  SPEAKER_00: President Gitanas Nauseda said Russia's war is spilling over onto the eastern flank
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  SPEAKER_00: of NATO and the European Union.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whose drone it was is not confirmed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lithuanian Defense Minister Robertus Kaunas said it flew from Poland.
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  SPEAKER_00: Poland's Defense Ministry said its radar did not confirm an object crossing the border.
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  SPEAKER_00: A Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman,
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  SPEAKER_00: Hyorky Tykhy,
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  SPEAKER_00: Said the incident may have been caused
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  SPEAKER_00: by Russian electronic warfare diverting Ukrainian drones from their targets.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Russia says it hit Kiev's military industrial sites on Monday.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Kiev's mayor said a medical center was hit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Regional authorities say Russian attacks killed at least 10 civilians across Ukraine
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  SPEAKER_00: on October 18.
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  SPEAKER_00: The governor of St. Petersburg reported fires at an oil terminal after a Ukrainian drone attack.
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  SPEAKER_00: A drone whose origin is not confirmed exploded in Lithuania, a NATO member, with no casualties.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alberta votes today on whether to remain in Canada or begin the legal process toward
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  SPEAKER_00: a binding referendum on separating.
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  SPEAKER_00: The vote does not itself separate the province.
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  SPEAKER_00: Polls close at 8 p.m. Alberta time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Premier Danielle Smith said in May that the 10th question on the ballot would ask,
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  SPEAKER_00: should Alberta remain a province of Canada or should the provincial government begin
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  SPEAKER_00: the legal process the Canadian Constitution requires for a binding referendum
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  SPEAKER_00: on separating?
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  SPEAKER_00: She added it to a referendum already planned on nine other questions
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  SPEAKER_00: about immigration and provincial powers.
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  SPEAKER_00: A court had quashed a separatist-backed petition for a vote on secession.
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  SPEAKER_00: A poll found that 72% planned to vote to remain and 23% backed a second vote.
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  SPEAKER_00: Advanced voting ran from October 13th through October 17th,
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  SPEAKER_00: and more than 174,000 people voted on the first day,
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  SPEAKER_00: more than 180,000 on the second.
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  SPEAKER_00: Smith has said she will vote to remain,
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  SPEAKER_00: but she will not require her party's elected members to do the same.
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  SPEAKER_00: She appeared with Prime Minister Mark Carney at a unity rally in Red Deer on Friday.
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  SPEAKER_00: She was not at the large pro-Canada rallies in Calgary on Thursday and Edmonton
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  SPEAKER_00: on Friday, where Carney was the main speaker.
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  SPEAKER_00: Carney told the Calgary rally that only a decisive result would settle the issue.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mitch Sylvester,
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  SPEAKER_00: who leads the Alberta Prosperity Project,
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  SPEAKER_00: a separatist group, called Smith's position a betrayal of her party's base.
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  SPEAKER_00: Separatist leader Keith Wilson told about 1,000 supporters in Edmonton on Saturday
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  SPEAKER_00: that the campaign will not end if they lose.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's not happening, he said.
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  SPEAKER_00: Carney said on Wednesday,
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  SPEAKER_00: October 14,
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  SPEAKER_00: that his government is closely following allegations of foreign interference in
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  SPEAKER_00: the campaigns.
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  SPEAKER_00: A federal watchdog office had notified a leading separatist group,
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  SPEAKER_00: among 60 others, of its legal obligations to report foreign influence.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know?
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  SPEAKER_00: Alberta votes today on whether to stay in Canada or begin the legal process toward
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  SPEAKER_00: a binding vote on separating.
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  SPEAKER_00: The ballot question does not separate the province,
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  SPEAKER_00: and a poll found 72% planning to remain and 23% backing a second vote.
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  SPEAKER_00: Premier Smith, who put the question on the ballot, says she will vote to remain.
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  SPEAKER_00: France's Interior Ministry said nearly 2,400 people were arrested on Saturday
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  SPEAKER_00: during protests across the country.
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  SPEAKER_00: The ministry also put the number of injured police and gendarmes at about 1,000.
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  SPEAKER_00: Earlier reporting on Saturday's protest gave around 400 arrests,
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  SPEAKER_00: a figure the Interior Minister cited at the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: President Emmanuel Macron spoke in a televised address to the nation on Sunday.
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  SPEAKER_00: He expressed anger and shame over the violent protesters' attempts to bring down the republic.
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  SPEAKER_00: He pledged a crisis unit to provide urgent aid and asked the government for lessons
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  SPEAKER_00: to be drawn.
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  SPEAKER_00: Left-wing leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon said the government is solely responsible for
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  SPEAKER_00: the destruction and has failed to maintain order.
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  SPEAKER_00: Far-right politician Jordan Bardella called Macron's speech lamentable and cowardly.
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  SPEAKER_00: The protests began in mid-September at high schools in the poor northern suburbs of Paris.
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  SPEAKER_00: They have widened into a movement over the cost of living.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Interior Ministry says nearly 2,400 people were arrested in France on Saturday
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  SPEAKER_00: and about 1,000 police and gendarmes were injured.
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  SPEAKER_00: Macron addressed the nation on Sunday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Opposition leaders on the left and the far right criticized the government and
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  SPEAKER_00: the president's speech.
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  SPEAKER_00: The protests began in September at high schools and have widened into a movement
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  SPEAKER_00: over living costs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council have condemned Houthi attacks
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  SPEAKER_00: on Saudi Arabia and pledged support for the kingdoms.
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  SPEAKER_00: The council has six members,
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  SPEAKER_00: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.
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  SPEAKER_00: It issued its statement after a meeting of foreign ministers in Manama.
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  SPEAKER_00: It said, quote, an attack on any member affected all six, close quote.
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  SPEAKER_00: The ministers accused the Houthis of deadly strikes on civilian airports and vital facilities.
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  SPEAKER_00: They urged tighter enforcement of a United Nations arm embargo and called for
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  SPEAKER_00: the Houthis to be designated a terrorist organization.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Saudi-led coalition said it shot down two drones near Riyadh and in
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  SPEAKER_00: the eastern province early on Sunday.
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  SPEAKER_00: It said it had intercepted another drone near the capital hours earlier.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Yemen,
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  SPEAKER_00: the government-aligned commanders said eight soldiers died in fighting in
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  SPEAKER_00: the Lahij province on Saturday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Government forces claim they killed 12 Houthi fighters in southern Thais,
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  SPEAKER_00: a figure that could not be independently confirmed.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Yemeni military said the Houthis fired missiles towards Marib on Sunday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Government forces said they retook Sanamat and advanced on Misrach, south of Taiz city.
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  SPEAKER_00: One civilian was reported killed and five wounded by Houthis shelling.
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  SPEAKER_00: The United Nations has warned that food is running out for residents of Taiz,
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  SPEAKER_00: and the International Organization for Migration says more
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  SPEAKER_00: than 233,000 people have been displaced, about 121,000 of them in Taiz.
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  SPEAKER_00: Several U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: embassies in the Middle East have issued identical security alerts
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  SPEAKER_00: for American citizens citing potential threats from Iran or the Houthis.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gulf Cooperation Council foreign ministers backed Saudi Arabia after Houthi attacks
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  SPEAKER_00: and said an attack on one member is an attack on all six.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Saudi-led coalition shot down a drone near Riyadh on Sunday.
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  SPEAKER_00: And several U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: embassies in the Middle East have issued identical security alerts
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  SPEAKER_00: for Americans citing possible threats from Iran or the Houthis.
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  SPEAKER_00: President Donald Trump has endorsed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead
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  SPEAKER_00: of Israel's October 27th election.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump issued a, quote,
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  SPEAKER_00: complete and total endorsement, close quote, in a truth social post on Sunday.
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  SPEAKER_00: He wrote that Netanyahu, quote,
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  SPEAKER_00: has been strong, brave,
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  SPEAKER_00: and brilliant in the face of tremendous opposition,
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  SPEAKER_00: capitalizing strong, brave, and brilliant for some reason.
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  SPEAKER_00: Netanyahu thanked him and said he was honored and humbled.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump said he had always planned to endorse Netanyahu and did not want to do it too soon.
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  SPEAKER_00: He had earlier declined to endorse him in an interview.
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  SPEAKER_00: Asked whether he could work with another Israeli leader,
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump said maybe he would and maybe he would not.
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  SPEAKER_00: Netanyahu's main rival in the election is Gadi Eisencott, a former military chief.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump endorsed Prime Minister Netanyahu on Sunday,
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  SPEAKER_00: nine days before Israel's October 27th election.
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  SPEAKER_00: He had earlier declined to endorse him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Asked whether he could work with another Israeli leader,
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump said maybe he would and maybe he would not.
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  SPEAKER_00: Israel said on Wednesday, October 14th, that commercial goods would no longer enter Gaza.
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  SPEAKER_00: As of Sunday, the restrictions were in their fifth consecutive day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lieutenant Daniel Kantorovich of Kogat,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Israeli military body that oversees humanitarian affairs in Gaza,
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  SPEAKER_00: said merchants did not want to bring goods in because of,
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  SPEAKER_00: quote, Hamas's taxation mechanism and the threats against them, close quote.
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  SPEAKER_00: The head of Gaza's truckers union,
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  SPEAKER_00: Nahed Sheheiber,
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  SPEAKER_00: He said the merchants did not stop the shipments and that Israel imposed
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  SPEAKER_00: the restrictions.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said Gaza's Ministry of Economy had been asking merchants to pay 10,000 shekels per truck.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's about $3,226 U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: The ministry's undersecretary,
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  SPEAKER_00: Khaled al-Raqab, said the payment was a donation to pay civil servants, not a tax.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gaza's government media office also denied that authorities impose taxes or fees
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  SPEAKER_00: on commercial trucks.
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  SPEAKER_00: Prices have risen sharply.
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  SPEAKER_00: The cost of flour, eggs, onions, and other staples has gone up since Wednesday.
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  SPEAKER_00: A Gaza resident,
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  SPEAKER_00: Ismail al-Barawi,
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  SPEAKER_00: said a carton of eggs that cost 35 shekels now sells for between 60 and 70.
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  SPEAKER_00: When Israel announced the halt,
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  SPEAKER_00: it was not clear whether aid agencies would be allowed to increase shipments.
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  SPEAKER_00: The UN World Food Program said on Sunday that two-thirds
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  SPEAKER_00: of Gaza's population is still acutely food insecure, about 1.4 million people.
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  SPEAKER_00: It has halved food rations.
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  SPEAKER_00: Funding shortages have forced it to cut aid by a third, so 500,000 people will lose assistance.
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  SPEAKER_00: In September,
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  SPEAKER_00: food prices in Gaza averaged 204% above their level before October 2023,
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  SPEAKER_00: according to the UN Humanitarian Office.
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  SPEAKER_00: That figure predates the halt.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Israel stopped commercial goods from entering Gaza on October 14th,
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  SPEAKER_00: saying merchants were being pressured by Hamas's taxation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gaza officials deny imposing taxes and describe a 10,000-shuckle payment per truck
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  SPEAKER_00: as a donation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Prices of staples have risen sharply,
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  SPEAKER_00: and the UN World Food Program says two-thirds
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  SPEAKER_00: of Gaza's population is acutely food-insecure and it is cutting aid.
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  SPEAKER_00: Former Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila has launched
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  SPEAKER_00: a new political and military coalition with the leaders of the M23 rebel group.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kabila announced the front for the refoundation of the nation at a news conference
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  SPEAKER_00: at his residence in Goma on Monday, October 12.
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  SPEAKER_00: He heads it with rebel leaders including Kornil Nanga'a.
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  SPEAKER_00: M23 holds north and south Kivu provinces, including their capitals Goma and Bukavu.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was no immediate response from the Congolese government.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kabila led the country from 2001 to 2019.
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  SPEAKER_00: A military court in Kinshasa sentenced him to death for treason in October 2025 in his absence.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kinshasa has long alleged that he has ties to the M23 alliance.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Congolese government and M23's alliance signed the Doha Framework
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  SPEAKER_00: in November 2025 in a process mediated by Qatar.
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  SPEAKER_00: Analyst Bram Verost said the real threat is to that process.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said the effect on the ground will depend on Kabila's ability to take control of
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  SPEAKER_00: the rebellion.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Former Congolese President Joseph Kabila launched a coalition with the leaders of
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  SPEAKER_00: the M23 rebel group on October 12th.
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  SPEAKER_00: M23 holds the provincial capitals Goma and Bukavu in eastern Congo.
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  SPEAKER_00: The government has long accused Kabila of ties to those rebels,
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  SPEAKER_00: and a military court sentenced him to death for treason last year.
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  SPEAKER_00: A stampede near a pavilion at a Durga Puja festival in Kolkata killed
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  SPEAKER_00: at least 19 people and injured 25, officials said on October 17th.
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  SPEAKER_00: Durga Puja is an annual Hindu festival celebrating the goddess Durga.
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  SPEAKER_00: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari gave the toll.
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  SPEAKER_00: Victims were taken to Kolkata Medical College and Hospital.
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  SPEAKER_00: Police cited heavy crowds visiting the pavilions in rainfall.
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  SPEAKER_00: A senior police official said an announcement caused a commotion,
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  SPEAKER_00: and Adhikari announced a special investigation team headed by a judge of
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  SPEAKER_00: the state's high court.
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  SPEAKER_00: Police detained some pavilion organizers, private security staff, and on-duty personnel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's office announced 200,000 rupees for the families
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  SPEAKER_00: of those who died.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's about $2,106 US.
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  SPEAKER_00: Each injured person will receive 50,000 rupees, about $527 US.
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  SPEAKER_00: Modi called the incident saddening.
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  SPEAKER_00: Interior Minister Amit Shah said the administration was providing medical care to the injured.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know,
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  SPEAKER_00: at least 19 people died in a stampede near a pavilion at a Durga Puja festival
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  SPEAKER_00: in Kolkata, and 25 were injured.
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  SPEAKER_00: Police cited heavy crowds in the rain and a senior official said
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  SPEAKER_00: an announcement caused a commotion.
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  SPEAKER_00: A judge-led investigation team has been announced and
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  SPEAKER_00: the central government is paying compensation to victims' families.
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  SPEAKER_00: And finally,
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  SPEAKER_00: in the West Bank,
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  SPEAKER_00: Israeli police said they arrested 10 suspects in the weekend attacks by settlers on
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  SPEAKER_00: the photojournalist Heidi Levine and a group of European diplomats in
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  SPEAKER_00: the occupied West Bank.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it for this Monday Morning's edition.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Rudy Martinez.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for listening, and I will see you all again this evening.
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