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The Rest of the World Report | October 26, 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 26th.
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  SPEAKER_00: First up, Lula wins, Bolsonaro contests.
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  SPEAKER_00: Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva won a fourth term as a Brazilian president on Sunday's runoff.
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  SPEAKER_00: His opponent,
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  SPEAKER_00: Senator Flavio Bolsonaro,
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  SPEAKER_00: has said he will seek to annul the vote, because of course he will.
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  SPEAKER_00: With 99.96% of the votes counted,
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  SPEAKER_00: the official tally gives Lula 51.78% to Bolsonaro's 48.22%,
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  SPEAKER_00: according to the latest reports.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Electoral Court has recognized the result.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lula, who is 80, is to be sworn in on January 5, 2027.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lula is the first Brazilian president to win four terms.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's also the first candidate since the return to democracy to win a runoff
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  SPEAKER_00: after finishing second in the first round.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bolsonaro won that round on October 4th with 47.03% to Lula's 45.16.
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  SPEAKER_00: The dispute is about the closing hours of voting.
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  SPEAKER_00: Both campaigns asked for more time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lula's campaign accused local officials of cutting public transport
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  SPEAKER_00: in several cities and Bolsonaro's cited rain and flooding.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Bolsonaro campaign's own petition to the electoral court on Sunday asked
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  SPEAKER_00: for voting until 7 p.m. in 17 municipalities across five states.
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  SPEAKER_00: It also asked that results be held back until voting closed there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin then ordered stations that were still open
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  SPEAKER_00: to stay open until 7 p.m., two hours later than scheduled.
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  SPEAKER_00: The order came after some stations had closed.
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  SPEAKER_00: He later clarified that closed stations would stay shut and some voters were turned away.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bolsonaro accuses Zanin, whom Lula named to the court in 2023, of changing the rules mid-game.
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  SPEAKER_00: He told supporters it is impossible to recognize the results of the election.
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  SPEAKER_00: Brazil's federal police are investigating alleged transport disruptions in five states.
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  SPEAKER_00: Election officials have said they are confident in the results.
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  SPEAKER_00: Leaders in Mexico, Canada, the European Commission, Cuba, and Chile congratulated Lula.
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  SPEAKER_00: Translators note, Lula's win is being read as a global majority and diplomacy story.
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  SPEAKER_00: China's state-run Global Times headlines,
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  SPEAKER_00: continuity in China-Brazil ties,
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  SPEAKER_00: and cites record trade of $143.3 billion in the first nine months of 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Kiev Independent calls Lula a would-be peace mediator and notes
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  SPEAKER_00: that Zelensky accepted his offer of help in June and that Lula spoke with Putin
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  SPEAKER_00: in August.
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  SPEAKER_00: It adds that Brazil keeps relations with both Russia and China.
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  SPEAKER_00: Both readings treat the result as settled.
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  SPEAKER_00: At home, it's contested, but the annulment case has a weak point.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bolsonaro's campaign asked the court for a voting extension of its own on Sunday,
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  SPEAKER_00: and Al Jazeera notes that both campaigns asked.
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  SPEAKER_00: What he objects to is the order Zanin issued, which came after some stations had closed.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a question the court can decide, and it gives Lula's side a plain answer while it does.
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  SPEAKER_00: But American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Brazil re-elected Lula on Sunday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Senator Flavio Bolsonaro,
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  SPEAKER_00: whose family the Trump administration has backed,
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  SPEAKER_00: says he will seek to annul the vote.
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  SPEAKER_00: President Trump's son Donnie Jr.
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  SPEAKER_00: criticized the results over the two-hour voting extension,
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  SPEAKER_00: and Representative Ro Khanna said Trump must respect the outcome.
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  SPEAKER_00: Brazil's electoral court has recognized Lula's win.
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  SPEAKER_00: Vucic concedes to student list.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alexander Vucic conceded defeat on Sunday night in Serbia's snap parliamentary election.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said the student list,
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  SPEAKER_00: a movement that grew out of the protests after the Novi Sad station collapsed,
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  SPEAKER_00: will win a majority.
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  SPEAKER_00: Speaking at about 9.30 p.m.,
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  SPEAKER_00: Vucic said a stratified sample of votes put the student list at 135 to 140 of
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  SPEAKER_00: the 250 seats and his own list at 105.
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  SPEAKER_00: A majority needs 126.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those are his figures.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Republic Electoral Commission's latest figures reported this morning give
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  SPEAKER_00: the student list 52.6% of the vote and Vucic's United Serbia 39.2%.
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  SPEAKER_00: The watchdog CRTA's preliminary count had it at 51.5% to 40.2%.
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  SPEAKER_00: Results are not final.
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  SPEAKER_00: Turnout reached 64.9% by 6 p.m.,
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  SPEAKER_00: the highest since the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1992, according to one report.
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  SPEAKER_00: Picture that against 51.93% in the same hour in 2023.
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  SPEAKER_00: CRTA said its observers recorded pressure on voters or election workers at almost
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  SPEAKER_00: a third of the 500 polling stations it monitored.
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  SPEAKER_00: The commission's president called the incidents mostly minor.
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  SPEAKER_00: Vucic said the vote confirmed a revolution carried out with the support
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  SPEAKER_00: from various European countries and,
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  SPEAKER_00: quote, the U.S.'s deep state, the one that is against President Trump, those quotes.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said he expects Serbia's new authorities to impose sanctions on Russia.
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  SPEAKER_00: Vucic resigned as president in September to run for prime minister.
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  SPEAKER_00: The canopy at Novi Sad's railway station fell in November 2024 and killed 16 people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nearly two years of student-led protest followed.
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  SPEAKER_00: European Council President Antonio Cosa
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  SPEAKER_00: And European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen congratulated
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  SPEAKER_00: the student list and offered support for reforms and for Serbia's path
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  SPEAKER_00: to EU membership.
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  SPEAKER_00: A Belgrade voter told Al Jazeera the vote meant freedom from a dictatorship
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  SPEAKER_00: that has lasted for 12 years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bucic's account is different.
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  SPEAKER_00: He describes a revolution run with foreign backing.
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  SPEAKER_00: The count does not test that claim, but it does test the claim that this is a small group.
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  SPEAKER_00: At 64.9% turnout by 6 p.m.,
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  SPEAKER_00: and a margin of 52.6 to 39.2 on the commission's latest figure are not
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  SPEAKER_00: a small group's numbers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Brussels congratulated within hours,
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  SPEAKER_00: though in July,
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  SPEAKER_00: eight member states blocked a new accession cluster over Serbia's failure to align
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  SPEAKER_00: with sanctions on Russia and its rule of law record.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Belgrade political scientist Bojan Vranic,
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  SPEAKER_00: speaking to Euronews,
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  SPEAKER_00: called the movement very conservative on EU accession
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  SPEAKER_00: and said he would not be overly enthusiastic about a breakthrough on integration.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know,
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  SPEAKER_00: Serbia's governing party lost its snap election on Sunday and its leader,
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  SPEAKER_00: Aleksandr Vucic, conceded.
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  SPEAKER_00: A student-led list is on course for a majority, though final results are not in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bucic said the student movement was backed by European countries and
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  SPEAKER_00: by what he called the U.S.'s deep state,
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  SPEAKER_00: which he described as opposed to President Donald Trump.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mecca Pact officials visit Tehran.
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  SPEAKER_00: Senior officials from Saudi Arabia,
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  SPEAKER_00: Pakistan, Turkey were due in Tehran on Monday for talks with Iranian leaders.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is the first high-level contact between Iran and the three members of
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  SPEAKER_00: the Mecca Defense Alliance since the Houthis escalated attacks
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  SPEAKER_00: on Saudi Arabia last month.
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  SPEAKER_00: Iran's Deputy Security Chief Ali Bagheri Kani Name the visitors.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are Saudi Defense Minister Khaled bin Salman,
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  SPEAKER_00: Pakistan's Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir,
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  SPEAKER_00: and Turkish Intelligence Chief Ibrahim Khalin.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mohsen Rezeh, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, leads the Iranian delegation.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Saudi Deputy Minister,
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  SPEAKER_00: Raid Krimli, said the visitors would also meet President Massoud Pazeshkian.
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  SPEAKER_00: Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman,
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  SPEAKER_00: Esmail Bakay,
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  SPEAKER_00: said the suggestion for the meeting came during Munir's visit to Tehran last week
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  SPEAKER_00: and that Tehran reviewed it favorably.
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  SPEAKER_00: Iranian officials told Munir then that there would be no talks with
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  SPEAKER_00: the United States on ending the war until Iran's demands were met,
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  SPEAKER_00: according to Iranian media.
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  SPEAKER_00: Iranian leaders also told Munir that the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: must take the first steps to rebuild trust and
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  SPEAKER_00: that accepting Tehran's seven-point proposal could be a starting point.
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  SPEAKER_00: The alliance's agreement,
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  SPEAKER_00: signed in August, treats an armed attack on one member as an attack on all.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pakistan approved the pact last week, and Turkey's parliament is still ratifying it.
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  SPEAKER_00: A barrage began Saturday evening.
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  SPEAKER_00: Saudi civil defense said shrapnel from two intercepted ballistic missiles fell
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  SPEAKER_00: in Jeddah, Taif, Rabih, and Wadi al-Mughamas in Mecca province.
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  SPEAKER_00: The missiles are suspected to be Houthi.
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  SPEAKER_00: In total, 10 ballistic missiles aimed at the south were intercepted.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Gulf Cooperation Council's Secretary General called it a grave violation of
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  SPEAKER_00: the sanctity of the holy sites.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Houthis deny targeting Muslim holy sites.
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  SPEAKER_00: Translators note, Tehran and Riyadh describe the same meaning differently.
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  SPEAKER_00: Iran's officials,
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  SPEAKER_00: as carried by Pakistan's DAWN,
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  SPEAKER_00: Presented as a step toward, quote,
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  SPEAKER_00: endogenous security,
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  SPEAKER_00: close quote, Bakay said Iran has pressed for the idea for decades.
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  SPEAKER_00: He puts the consequences of what he calls U.S.-Israeli aggression first on the agenda.
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  SPEAKER_00: Primly calls the visit de-escalation in support of mediation by Qatar and Pakistan.
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  SPEAKER_00: The two descriptions fit together only if the region's own states become
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  SPEAKER_00: the channel, and Washington, which Iran says must move first, is not in the room.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Houthi strikes on Saudi Arabia give the visit its urgency.
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  SPEAKER_00: The seven-point proposal and Munir's earlier trip give it its starting points.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Officials from Saudi Arabia,
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  SPEAKER_00: Pakistan,
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  SPEAKER_00: and Turkey,
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  SPEAKER_00: which signed a mutual defense pact in August,
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  SPEAKER_00: are meeting with Iranian leaders in Tehran on Monday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Iran has told Pakistan's army chief it will not talk to the United States
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  SPEAKER_00: about ending the war until its demands are met, according to Iranian media.
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  SPEAKER_00: Saudi Arabia says the visit supports mediation by Qatar and Pakistan.
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  SPEAKER_00: Houthi missiles have been intercepted over Saudi cities with debris falling in Mecca province.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jordan arrests Karak suspects.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jordanian security forces arrested three armed suspects on Monday in the attack on
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  SPEAKER_00: a funeral at a Greek Orthodox church in Karak, Jordan.
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  SPEAKER_00: The toll has risen since the Saturday edition, which reported seven killed and 40 wounded.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jordan's Ministry of Health now puts the dead at eight.
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  SPEAKER_00: A separate report from Sunday's funeral says nine people were killed,
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  SPEAKER_00: with a ninth victim due to be buried on Monday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of the 40 injured, 27 remained in hospital on Monday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jordan's Public Security Directorate says the suspects were found hiding in
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  SPEAKER_00: an abandoned house in the village of Al-Jadida in Karak.
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  SPEAKER_00: The directorate said they refused to surrender and attacked security forces
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  SPEAKER_00: who returned fire and arrested all three after wounding them.
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  SPEAKER_00: A Jordanian government source said one suspect is in critical condition and that
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  SPEAKER_00: the fighting lasted about three hours.
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  SPEAKER_00: No security personnel were hurt and firearms and live ammunition were found at
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  SPEAKER_00: the site, according to Jordan's state news agency.
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  SPEAKER_00: The directorate did not name any group.
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  SPEAKER_00: Government Communications Minister Mohamed Momani called it a successful joint operation.
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  SPEAKER_00: King Abdullah II said those behind the attack would face the harshest penalties
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  SPEAKER_00: and ordered a review of the country's security procedures.
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  SPEAKER_00: Interior Minister Mazen al-Faraya said authorities are reviewing the circumstances
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  SPEAKER_00: that led young people to embrace violence.
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  SPEAKER_00: Karak is home to many members of Jordan's Christian minority,
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  SPEAKER_00: which make up about 300,000 of the country's 11.5 million people.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know?
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  SPEAKER_00: Jordanian forces arrested three armed suspects on Monday in connection
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  SPEAKER_00: with Friday's attack on a Greek Orthodox funeral in Karak.
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  SPEAKER_00: The death toll has risen to eight, up from seven on Saturday, and one report even counts nine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Forty people were injured, and authorities have not named any group or given a motive.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oleski truce as war continues.
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  SPEAKER_00: The White House said on October 23rd that the First Lady Melania Trump secured
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  SPEAKER_00: a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is limited to Oleski, a Russian-occupied city, across the Dnipro River from Kurson.
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  SPEAKER_00: The aim is to let humanitarian aid in and prepare a civilian evacuation.
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  SPEAKER_00: About 24,000 people lived there before the war.
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  SPEAKER_00: The White House estimates about 1,700 to 2,000 remain, mostly, older people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Reports differ on the start.
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  SPEAKER_00: A Ukrainian news report says the two general staffs announced a ceasefire in
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  SPEAKER_00: a designated area from the night of October 27.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says Ukrainian Human Rights Commissioner...
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  SPEAKER_00: Dmitry Lubinets confirmed the humanitarian operation for October 29th.
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  SPEAKER_00: The White House and Russian state media give October 29th for the start of the ceasefire.
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  SPEAKER_00: Melania said she has spoken to both Putin and Zelensky.
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  SPEAKER_00: Quote, we talked, we signed the agreement, close quote.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pope Leo had contacted Putin on October 16th and spoken
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  SPEAKER_00: to Zelensky three days later, urging a ceasefire in Oleski.
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  SPEAKER_00: Democrats accused the First Lady of taking credit for his efforts.
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  SPEAKER_00: Russia and Ukraine both confirmed her role.
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  SPEAKER_00: In a Ukrainian television interview,
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  SPEAKER_00: Zelensky said Russia would clear mines from Maleshki's roads, quote,
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  SPEAKER_00: in such a way that these people head towards Russia and stay there, close quote.
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  SPEAKER_00: The First Lady said she expects some residents to choose Russia and some Ukraine.
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  SPEAKER_00: On the peace track,
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  SPEAKER_00: Putin's aide Yuri Yushikov said the next deadline is November 4th,
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  SPEAKER_00: after which Russia will be ready to resume three-way talks with Ukraine and the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: He called the first meeting a trial run.
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  SPEAKER_00: Zelensky said on October 23rd that a new round was expected in the first half
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  SPEAKER_00: of November, with Abu Dhabi a possible venue.
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  SPEAKER_00: On Sunday, he said territory is a red line that only leaders can discuss.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said he is prepared to discuss an energy ceasefire,
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  SPEAKER_00: a black sea grain deal, and prisoner exchanges.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Kremlin has demanded that Ukraine cede the part of the Donbass it still holds.
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  SPEAKER_00: On the front,
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  SPEAKER_00: Ukrainian authorities said Russian attacks killed eight people and injured 51
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  SPEAKER_00: across Ukraine over the day to October 25th.
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  SPEAKER_00: Overnight on October 24th to 25th,
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  SPEAKER_00: Russia launched 153 Shahed-type drones,
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  SPEAKER_00: 92 of them jet-powered, plus Bandarol cruise missiles.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ukraine's Air Force said 119 drones were intercepted.
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  SPEAKER_00: Overnight on October 25th to 26th, Russia launched 140 drones and four missiles.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ukraine's Air Force said 112 drones and three missiles were downed with impacts at 15 locations.
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  SPEAKER_00: Authorities in Zaporizhzhia Oblast counted 832 strikes on 52 settlements in a day.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Russia,
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  SPEAKER_00: Voronezh Governor Alexander Gusev said a Ukrainian attack killed two men
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  SPEAKER_00: and injured 17 people, including a child.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said 113 drones were shot down over the region, 70 of them over Voronezh City.
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  SPEAKER_00: Drone debris fell on a passenger train,
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  SPEAKER_00: and Russian railways said at least five passengers were injured.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ukraine's general staff claims 1,990 Russian personnel were killed or wounded in the past day.
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  SPEAKER_00: It puts the total at 1,580,440.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a Ukrainian claim and has not been independently verified.
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  SPEAKER_00: Translators note.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kiev and Moscow are reading the Oleski truce in opposite ways.
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  SPEAKER_00: Zelensky treats it as a mission to be managed,
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  SPEAKER_00: warning that Russia will steer residents toward Russia.
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  SPEAKER_00: Moscow state agency TASS,
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  SPEAKER_00: which calls the town Alyoski, carries it as a U.S.-brokered humanitarian effort.
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  SPEAKER_00: Putin's investment envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, praised, quote,
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  SPEAKER_00: A Russian foreign ministry diplomat told TASS the channel
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  SPEAKER_00: to her office could help counter narratives that blame Russia for
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  SPEAKER_00: the town's condition.
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  SPEAKER_00: The White House statement itself expects some residents to choose Russia.
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  SPEAKER_00: Each side is arguing about where the people will go before any have left.
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  SPEAKER_00: The dates to watch are October 29th and the November talks.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: The White House says First Lady Melania Trump secured a ceasefire in the city of Oleski.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is meant to let aid in and civilians out.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Ukrainian reporting has it starting the night of October 27th,
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  SPEAKER_00: while the White House says October 29th.
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  SPEAKER_00: Russia says it is ready to resume three-way talks with Ukraine and the U.S. after November 4th.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ukraine reports Russian attacks killed eight people and injured 51 in one day.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Russia says a Ukrainian drone attack killed two and Voronezh.
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  SPEAKER_00: 11 killed in Gaza.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gaza Civil Defense said on Monday that 11 people had been killed and 50 wounded
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  SPEAKER_00: by Israeli fire and airstrikes over the past 24 hours.
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  SPEAKER_00: At least eight Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza on Sunday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Three security guards died in airstrikes on the Islamic University campus in Gaza City.
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  SPEAKER_00: The second attack on the university within a few hours.
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  SPEAKER_00: An earlier drone strike on the campus injured seven female students with shrapnel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Elsewhere,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Nasser Medical Complex reported two people killed by Israeli shelling
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  SPEAKER_00: in Al-Mawasi in Khan Yunus.
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  SPEAKER_00: A person was killed in a drone strike east of Dair al-Bala and another
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  SPEAKER_00: on al-Rashid Street in northern Gaza, according to the Palestinian News Agency.
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  SPEAKER_00: A man was later killed in Sheikh Nasser, east of Khan Yunus.
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  SPEAKER_00: On Monday,
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  SPEAKER_00: an Israeli airstrike on a camp for displaced people
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  SPEAKER_00: in al-Mawasi killed three people,
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  SPEAKER_00: including a seven-year-old girl, according to Nasser Hospital and Civil Defense.
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  SPEAKER_00: Israel's military said it was looking into reports on the strike.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: A security source in Gaza said Israeli tanks
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  SPEAKER_00: and vehicles advanced Monday morning west of the Yellow Line in eastern Dair al-Bala
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  SPEAKER_00: with heavy gunfire toward eastern and northern areas.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Gaza Health Ministry says at least 1,551 people have been killed
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  SPEAKER_00: and 5,573 injured since the ceasefire began in October 2025.
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  SPEAKER_00: UNESCO says nearly 95% of Gaza's higher education campuses have been destroyed or damaged.
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  SPEAKER_00: Almost two-thirds of the Strip is under Israeli military control or subject to its restrictions.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Israeli strikes killed at least eight people in Gaza on Sunday and three more this morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Three of Sunday's dead were guards at a university in Gaza City.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_00: The Gaza Health Ministry says 1,551 people have been killed since the October 2025 ceasefire.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_00: Almost two-thirds of the Strip is under Israeli military control or restrictions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nigeria Ebola.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nigeria's Health Minister Mohamed Ali Pate said
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  SPEAKER_00: the country's first imported Ebola case Left Abuja for Switzerland
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  SPEAKER_00: on Monday morning, along with her husband, who has stayed symptom-free.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pate says the woman was clinically much improved, but could still be infectious.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nigeria's Disease Control Center reported 53 contacts linked to her as
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  SPEAKER_00: of October 24, including health workers, domestic staff, and her spouse.
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  SPEAKER_00: A suspected case in Rivers State, reported on October 23, tested negative.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_00: The center says she is 42 and returned from Uganda through Addis Ababa on October 3,
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_00: And its national laboratory confirmed the infection on October 20th.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_00: A Wire report describes her as the Ugandan-born wife of a Swiss diplomat in Abuja.
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  SPEAKER_00: Switzerland said last week she had not traveled to the Congo, contradicting Ugandan officials.
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  SPEAKER_00: Scientists are investigating a possible link to Kenya's first case,
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_00: a man who traveled from Congo through Entebbe Airport on October 3rd.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it for this morning's edition of The Rest of the World Report.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_00: I'm Rudy Martinez.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for listening.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will see you all again this evening.
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