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The Rest of the World Report | November 4, 2026 — Evening Edition · The Rest of the World Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Good evening from Paris.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Rudy Martinez with The Rest of the World Report for Wednesday evening, November 4th.
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  SPEAKER_00: You guys feel a lot lighter today after yesterday's results?
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  SPEAKER_00: Me too.
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  SPEAKER_00: Iran responds to the midterm results.
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  SPEAKER_00: Iran's chief negotiator said Wednesday that Americans voted no to war,
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  SPEAKER_00: while Iran's supreme leader said hopes that the vote will change U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: hostility are mistaken.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mohammed Bagheer-Galabaf, the parliament speaker, leads Iran's talks with Washington.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he wrote on X that Americans said no to war and we endorse this message.
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  SPEAKER_00: He warned that if the United States government ignores the vote,
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  SPEAKER_00: Iran's refusal will turn into a nightmare for Washington.
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  SPEAKER_00: Foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Bakay said American people had sent a clear message.
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  SPEAKER_00: He warned that the consequences of a grave miscalculation would extend far
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  SPEAKER_00: beyond what Washington has already seen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Supreme Leader Mushtaba Khamenei said in a written statement that anyone hoping U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: behavior will change through partisan or factional shifts or through concessions
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  SPEAKER_00: to Washington is mistaken.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said Iran's control of the Strait of Hormuz had shattered the myth
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  SPEAKER_00: of America's invincibility and that a renewed U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: attack would draw a far wider response.
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  SPEAKER_00: Judiciary Chief Ghulam Hussein Musseini Ajayi said Trump suffered defeat both
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  SPEAKER_00: on the battlefield and in the political arena.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mohammed Mukherjee, an advisor to the Supreme Leader,
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  SPEAKER_00: said Trump had been slapped in the face by his own people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Hamid Reza Makadamfar is an advisor to the commander
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  SPEAKER_00: of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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  SPEAKER_00: He told a ceremony in Bandar Abbas that Iran sees no fundamental difference
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  SPEAKER_00: between the Republican and Democratic parties and that the vote will not change
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  SPEAKER_00: to Iran's policy.
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  SPEAKER_00: He also said that Republican setback cannot be separated from the outcome of the war.
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  SPEAKER_00: Makadamfar also said Iran would hit targets beyond U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: bases if Gulf states allowed Washington to launch attacks from their territory.
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  SPEAKER_00: He named the UAE and Bahrain specifically.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thousands marched in Tehran on Wednesday, today,
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  SPEAKER_00: on the anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: Embassy, burning American and Israeli flags.
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  SPEAKER_00: The United States and Israel launched the war on Iran on February 28,
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  SPEAKER_00: killing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader's father.
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  SPEAKER_00: Talks to prevent renewed fighting are continuing,
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  SPEAKER_00: and military confrontations have continued in southern Iran and around the Strait
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  SPEAKER_00: of Hormuz.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Iran's leaders say American voters rejected the war
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  SPEAKER_00: and the Supreme Leader says hopes that the vote will soften U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: hostility are mistaken.
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  SPEAKER_00: Iran's chief negotiator warned Washington against ignoring the results and talks
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  SPEAKER_00: to prevent the renewed fighting are continuing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the region has been on edge over whether the United States resumes full-scale operations.
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  SPEAKER_00: Indonesia arrests police generals.
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  SPEAKER_00: Indonesia's president fired his chief of staff on Wednesday
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  SPEAKER_00: over alleged illegal wiretapping of the president's phones.
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  SPEAKER_00: President Prabowo Sabianto dismissed General Listio Siget Prabowo, who is not related.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listio was National Police Chief for five years before Prabowo made him the Chief
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  SPEAKER_00: of Staff last month.
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  SPEAKER_00: Police announced they had arrested Listio and two other generals on Sunday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Police allege the wiretapping took place between 2025 and 2026
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  SPEAKER_00: while Listio was Police Chief and that the suspects ordered the taps
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  SPEAKER_00: without following proper procedure.
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  SPEAKER_00: They also allege that the suspects ordered the deletion
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  SPEAKER_00: of files containing intercepted communications in late October.
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  SPEAKER_00: The suspects have not responded publicly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Police are investigating alleged taps on the president's phone and on those
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  SPEAKER_00: of government officials, politicians, journalists, civil society representatives,
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  SPEAKER_00: and business people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Prasetyo Hadi, the Minister of State Secretariat,
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  SPEAKER_00: said the alleged wiretapping could be regarded as conduct leading toward treason
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  SPEAKER_00: because the head of state's communications hold highly sensitive information.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yusral Iza Mohendra is the Coordinating Minister for Law, Human Rights, Immigration,
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  SPEAKER_00: and Corrections.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said the motive has not been determined and the investigation is at an early stage.
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  SPEAKER_00: Vice Admiral Yayan Sofayan, the Navy's operations assistant,
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  SPEAKER_00: said the military is deploying 20,980 troops and personnel to Jakarta.
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  SPEAKER_00: The first phase began Monday with 2,100 personnel from units already stationed
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  SPEAKER_00: in the city and 13,104 more are on standby.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sofian did not say what the deployment is for,
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  SPEAKER_00: but Armed Forces Spokesman Major General Mohamed Nas said troop deployments are
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  SPEAKER_00: a normal occurrence and that the military must always be ready to protect
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  SPEAKER_00: the nation.
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  SPEAKER_00: But authorities have not confirmed a link to the wiretapping case.
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  SPEAKER_00: Foreign investors sold 575 billion rupiah, that's $31.7 million US,
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  SPEAKER_00: of Indonesian money on Tuesday as news of the case spread.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the IDX Composite Index fell 3.78%.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Indonesia's president fired his chief of staff, a former national police chief,
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  SPEAKER_00: over alleged wiretapping of the president and other officials.
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  SPEAKER_00: Police have detained three police generals.
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  SPEAKER_00: The palace says the conduct could be regarded as leading toward treason
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  SPEAKER_00: and investigators have not named a motive.
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  SPEAKER_00: The military is deploying about 21,000 personnel to Jakarta.
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  SPEAKER_00: Impeachment sought over Paraguay Bank.
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  SPEAKER_00: Paraguayan opposition lawmakers filed an impeachment request on Wednesday
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  SPEAKER_00: against President Santiago Peña and Vice President Pedro Aliana over the collapse
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  SPEAKER_00: of Ueno Bank.
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  SPEAKER_00: Paraguay Central Bank seized Ueno on Tuesday, a digital lender with close ties to Peña.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ueno says it has about 3 million customers, and that's roughly 60% of the country's population.
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  SPEAKER_00: The bank manages $800 to $850 million U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: in public money, including about $380 million from the state pension
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  SPEAKER_00: and health fund.
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  SPEAKER_00: The central bank's board put it into resolution after its solvency fell below half
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  SPEAKER_00: the legal minimum.
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  SPEAKER_00: Deposit insurance of up to $38,000 U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: per person fully covers about 97% of depositors by preliminary estimates.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peña asked central bank president Carlos Carvalho to resign.
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  SPEAKER_00: Carvalho said he had signed his resignation and would stay on to oversee the takeover.
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  SPEAKER_00: The impeachment request has 35 signatures from opposition and dissident deputies.
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  SPEAKER_00: Among its allegations are that Peña kept a stake in the parent group, Ueno Holden,
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  SPEAKER_00: When he took office and that he named former executives of the group
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  SPEAKER_00: to key oversight posts, including the presidency of the central bank.
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  SPEAKER_00: The request also says rules on pension fund investment were loosened
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  SPEAKER_00: to send retirement money to the bank with placements reaching about 11%
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  SPEAKER_00: of the fund's portfolio against a legal limit of 10% per issuer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Raul Atore, president of the Chamber of Deputies,
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  SPEAKER_00: said after a meeting of the ruling party's deputies that they are free to vote
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  SPEAKER_00: as they choose.
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  SPEAKER_00: Colorado Añatete, a five-member dissident bloc,
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  SPEAKER_00: said it will support impeaching Peña, but not Aliana.
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  SPEAKER_00: The opposition plans to ask for an extraordinary session on Thursday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Prosecutors charged 27 people, the bank's eight directors, and 19 people at related companies.
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  SPEAKER_00: The charges are breach of trust, attempted fraud, improper conduct in a crisis,
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  SPEAKER_00: and failure to keep commercial books.
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  SPEAKER_00: A judge admitted the charges on Wednesday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Prosecutors have asked for a pretrial detention for the bank's chief executive
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  SPEAKER_00: and a house arrest for the seven other directors,
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  SPEAKER_00: and a hearing on those measures is set for Thursday, tomorrow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peña signed a law on Wednesday that lets depositors collect an advance of up
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  SPEAKER_00: to $20,000 U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: Payment must begin within 24 hours and cannot take more than five business days.
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  SPEAKER_00: Translators note, inside Paraguay,
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  SPEAKER_00: the collapse of Ueno is being treated as a test of Peña's hold on his own party,
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  SPEAKER_00: not just a banking story.
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  SPEAKER_00: The bank is closed, depositors have a law, and 27 people are charged.
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  SPEAKER_00: What remains is who answers politically,
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  SPEAKER_00: and that depends on the ruling party more than on the opposition.
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  SPEAKER_00: The opposition says it hopes some ruling party deputies will join it.
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  SPEAKER_00: La Torre's decision to free the votes lets those deputies break with Peña
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  SPEAKER_00: without breaking with the party.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Añatete dissidents have already drawn the line,
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  SPEAKER_00: with the president exposed and the vice president spared.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peña's future now rests on account inside his own party,
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  SPEAKER_00: and the first test is the session the opposition will request on Thursday.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know,
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  SPEAKER_00: Paraguayan opposition lawmakers filed an impeachment request
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  SPEAKER_00: against President Santiago Peña over the collapse of Ueno Bank,
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  SPEAKER_00: which holds about 3 million customers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Prosecutors have charged 27 people,
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  SPEAKER_00: Peña signed a law to speed payments to depositors,
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  SPEAKER_00: and the central bank's president has submitted his resignation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ethiopia has expelled six staff from Sudan's consulate in Asosa and ordered
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  SPEAKER_00: the mission closed, Ethiopian and Sudanese officials said.
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  SPEAKER_00: Neither official gave a reason.
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  SPEAKER_00: An Ethiopian intelligence official said the six were given 48 hours to leave,
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  SPEAKER_00: and a Sudanese official said the staff left Tuesday evening.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ethiopian authorities had summoned Sudan's ambassador on Sunday to announce the closure.
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  SPEAKER_00: Both spoke on condition of anonymity, and Ethiopia's foreign ministry has said nothing publicly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ethiopia has sent diplomats home before.
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  SPEAKER_00: On October 1, it expelled 10 Eritrean diplomats and closed its embassy in Eritrea,
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  SPEAKER_00: and Eritrea answered by cutting diplomatic ties.
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  SPEAKER_00: Last month, Ethiopia also expelled an Egyptian diplomat.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sudan's complaint against Ethiopia is about drones.
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  SPEAKER_00: On Saturday, Sudan's foreign ministry said the United Arab Emirates supplied
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  SPEAKER_00: the drones that paramilitary rapid support forces have used
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  SPEAKER_00: against Sudan's electricity network and that they were launched from Ethiopia.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sudan has taken the complaint to the United Nations Security Council
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  SPEAKER_00: and the African Union's Peace and Security Council.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ethiopia and the UAE have repeatedly denied arming the RSF,
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  SPEAKER_00: and in a May 5 statement,
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  SPEAKER_00: Ethiopia's foreign ministry called similar accusations baseless and accused Sudan
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  SPEAKER_00: of supporting rebels in Tigray.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sudan's foreign ministry and military intelligence says 70 attacks
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  SPEAKER_00: with 187 drones were launched from Ethiopian territory between February and October.
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  SPEAKER_00: 28 of those attacks with 97 drones came in October.
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  SPEAKER_00: The strikes have been landing on the power grid.
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  SPEAKER_00: Drones knocked out substations in the northern towns of al-Daba and Abu Hamad
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  SPEAKER_00: on Sunday and left both without power.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sudan's government and emergency lawyers, a Sudanese rights group, blame the RSF.
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  SPEAKER_00: Emergency lawyers count 15 substations hit since early October,
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  SPEAKER_00: which has left the grid dependent on a handful of plants.
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  SPEAKER_00: An employee of Sudan Electric Holding Company said on condition of anonymity
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  SPEAKER_00: that the Meroe Dam now supplies more than 70% of the country's electricity.
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  SPEAKER_00: Production had already fallen from 4,400 megawatts before the war to 1,100.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Sudan Doctors Network warned that the outages endanger hospitals,
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  SPEAKER_00: dialysis centers, and blood banks.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sudan's Transitional Sovereignty Council says drone attacks killed 176 soldiers
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  SPEAKER_00: and 484 civilians between February 15 and October 27.
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  SPEAKER_00: The war has killed at least 59,000 people and displaced about 13 million.
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  SPEAKER_00: Translators note, the region is reading Sudan's accusation as the opening
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  SPEAKER_00: of a second front, not an extension of the civil war.
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  SPEAKER_00: By taking the drone strikes to the UN Security Council and the African Union,
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  SPEAKER_00: Sudan's government has turned an army grievance into a charge against the state.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ethiopia has answered mostly with silence, expelling staff without a public announcement.
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  SPEAKER_00: A Sudanese border analyst says some in the army want war with Ethiopia,
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  SPEAKER_00: and he ties the quarrel to the Nile Dam and to the army's rapprochement with Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_00: On that reading, the drones are one strand of a larger quarrel,
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  SPEAKER_00: and diplomats from three countries have left Ethiopia since October.
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  SPEAKER_00: A charge Sudan cannot yet prove is now the basis of its diplomacy with Ethiopia.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know,
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  SPEAKER_00: Ethiopia expelled six staff from Sudan's consulate and closed it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sudan accuses Ethiopia of being the launch point for the drone strikes on its power stations.
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  SPEAKER_00: A Sudanese rights group counts 15 substations hit since early October.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ethiopia and the UAE deny arming the paramilitary group Sudan blames,
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  SPEAKER_00: and Sudan has complained to the UN Security Council and the African Union.
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  SPEAKER_00: King Charles III called the transatlantic slave trade a shameful chapter of history
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  SPEAKER_00: on Tuesday and did not apologize.
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  SPEAKER_00: King Charles spoke at the opening of the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting
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  SPEAKER_00: in St. John's, Antigua, and Barbuda.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said the trade still casts a shadow over the islands
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  SPEAKER_00: and other Commonwealth members,
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  SPEAKER_00: and he noted that the Royal Navy played a leading role in ending it.
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  SPEAKER_00: On the wrongs themselves, the king said he is finding ways to address them
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  SPEAKER_00: through education, jobs, trade within the Commonwealth, and climate resilience.
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  SPEAKER_00: The speech came after British Prime Minister Andy Burnham wrote that he is open
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  SPEAKER_00: to calls for a formal British apology.
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  SPEAKER_00: Burnham ruled out financial reparations,
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  SPEAKER_00: writing that British people today cannot be held liable for historical wrongs,
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  SPEAKER_00: and proposed leading a program of debt restructuring to help
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  SPEAKER_00: the Commonwealth's poorest countries.
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  SPEAKER_00: Guyana's president, Muhammad Irfan Ali,
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  SPEAKER_00: had said before the king's visit to Guyana that an apology would be the next step.
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  SPEAKER_00: Outside the venue, a small group of protesters held signs reading,
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  SPEAKER_00: acknowledge the wrong, commit to repair.
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  SPEAKER_00: Shauna Michelle of Antigua, who joined them, said an apology is where repair starts.
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  SPEAKER_00: Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Brown said Tuesday that countries shaped
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  SPEAKER_00: by international decisions must have a meaningful voice in making them, adding,
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  SPEAKER_00: no nation should be forced to mortgage its future simply to survive its present.
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  SPEAKER_00: Officials announced Monday
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  SPEAKER_00: that the Commonwealth Nature Initiative had generated more than $200 million
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  SPEAKER_00: in pledges meant to protect at least 30% of the world's land and oceans by 2030.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Commonwealth has 56 member nations.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know King Charles spoke about the slave trade
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  SPEAKER_00: at the opening of the Commonwealth meeting in Antigua and did not apologize.
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  SPEAKER_00: Britain's Prime Minister says he is open to a formal apology but rejects reparations
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  SPEAKER_00: and he has proposed a debt restructuring program for the poorest members.
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  SPEAKER_00: Protesters outside the meeting asked for repair and Guyana's president says
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  SPEAKER_00: an apology is the next step.
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  SPEAKER_00: South Africans voted Wednesday in local elections widely seen as a test
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  SPEAKER_00: for the African National Congress,
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  SPEAKER_00: the party that led the country out of white minority rule.
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  SPEAKER_00: The vote decides who runs the country's eight main city municipalities,
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  SPEAKER_00: 44 district councils, and 205 local councils.
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  SPEAKER_00: Voters choose council members, and the councils choose the mayors.
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  SPEAKER_00: A record 29.2 million people are registered,
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  SPEAKER_00: according to the Electoral Commission of South Africa,
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  SPEAKER_00: and 546 parties contested the elections.
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  SPEAKER_00: Polls were due to close at 9 p.m. local time, and final results are expected Sunday.
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  SPEAKER_00: The ANC has been losing ground for a decade.
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  SPEAKER_00: It won less than 50% of the vote in the 2021 local elections,
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  SPEAKER_00: the first time since 1994, then lost its parliamentary majority in 2024 and formed
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  SPEAKER_00: a national coalition with the Democratic Alliance and other parties.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the cities, the two are rivals, and polls suggest ANC support could fall below 40% this time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Johannesburg is the biggest prize.
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  SPEAKER_00: The DA is running its former leader, Helen Zeal, 75, for mayor,
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  SPEAKER_00: and one poll put her at 36%, which would leave her needing coalition partners.
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  SPEAKER_00: Former President Jacob Zuma's MK party is contesting its first local election
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  SPEAKER_00: and is mounting a strong challenge in Durban.
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  SPEAKER_00: Much of the anger is about basic services.
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  SPEAKER_00: President Cyril Ramaphosa wrote in his weekly newsletter
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  SPEAKER_00: that municipal failures have contributed to declining public trust.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Alexandra Township, where the road to one polling station is filled
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  SPEAKER_00: with potholes, leaking sewage and uncollected waste,
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  SPEAKER_00: 21-year-old Karabo Mogano voted for the first time and said nothing works here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Parts of Ekor Huleni have been without water for days.
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  SPEAKER_00: Only 46% of registered voters took part in 2021.
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  SPEAKER_00: The results are expected to shape the race to succeed Ramaphosa as ANC leader
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  SPEAKER_00: at the party's conference in December 2027.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: South Africans voted Wednesday for the councils that run their cities
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  SPEAKER_00: and elections seen as a test for the ANC.
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  SPEAKER_00: The party has lost support over the last decade and now shares power nationally
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  SPEAKER_00: with the Democratic Alliance.
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  SPEAKER_00: Final results are expected on Sunday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Brazil's Senate passes Lula's anti-gang amendment.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Senate approved a constitutional amendment on Tuesday that creates
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  SPEAKER_00: a public security ministry, changes how security agencies coordinate,
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  SPEAKER_00: and gives more resources to the fight against the First Command of the Capitol
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  SPEAKER_00: in Sao Paulo and the Red Command in Rio de Janeiro.
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  SPEAKER_00: It passed two rounds of voting with no opposition and will be sanctioned later this week.
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  SPEAKER_00: Senators removed a provision that would have lowered the age
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  SPEAKER_00: of criminal responsibility to 16 from 18.
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  SPEAKER_00: In June, the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: State Department designated both gangs as foreign terrorist organizations,
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  SPEAKER_00: a move President Luis Inacio Lula de Silva interpreted as interference.
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  SPEAKER_00: Haiti's Prime Minister says Haiti directs foreign forces.
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  SPEAKER_00: Prime Minister Alex Didier Fillamé said Tuesday that Haiti is responsible
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  SPEAKER_00: for the direction of foreign forces in the country.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was his first public statement
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  SPEAKER_00: since four Salvadoran aviation technicians went missing last month,
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  SPEAKER_00: after which El Salvador sent more than 2,000 troops.
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  SPEAKER_00: The United Nations said Monday that most of El Salvador's personnel
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  SPEAKER_00: in Haiti are not operating under the framework
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  SPEAKER_00: of the UN-backed gang suppression force.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a UN spokesman said Tuesday that people's rights must be respected
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  SPEAKER_00: during security operations.
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  SPEAKER_00: And finally, Bangladesh garment workers clash with police over pay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Police fired tear gas and used stun grenades on Wednesday
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  SPEAKER_00: to disperse garment workers demanding a minimum monthly wage of 30,000 takas,
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  SPEAKER_00: 245 U.S. dollars, up from 12,500.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hundreds of factories remained shut after days of protest in an industry
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  SPEAKER_00: that employs about 4 million workers and earns $40 billion a year in exports.
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  SPEAKER_00: The government has formed a new wage board
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  SPEAKER_00: and its chairman says workers will receive their first salaries under the new scale
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  SPEAKER_00: in January.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for listening to this edition of The Rest of the World Report.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Rudy Martinez, and I will see you all again in the morning.