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The Rest of the World Report | October 24, 2026 — Saturday Edition · The Rest of the World Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Hello from Paris.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Rudy Martinez, and this is The Rest of the World Report for Saturday, October 24.
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  SPEAKER_00: France protests, traps attack.
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  SPEAKER_00: Police counted at least 110,000 marchers in Paris on Saturday and described the march as calm.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Paris police prefecture said more than 3,000 people were stopped and checked
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  SPEAKER_00: and 65 were arrested during the march.
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  SPEAKER_00: Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said 135 people had been detained across the country
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  SPEAKER_00: before 1 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said police had seized weapons that included metal balls, fireworks, and a katana.
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  SPEAKER_00: About 70,000 officers were deployed nationwide.
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  SPEAKER_00: Other cities were less quiet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Journalists on the scene reported police firing tear gas at protesters in Lyon,
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  SPEAKER_00: Lille, Toulouse, and Nantes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Authorities had banned specific protests in cities including Lyon and Marseille,
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  SPEAKER_00: In Nantes,
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  SPEAKER_00: marchers crossed into a downtown zone where
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  SPEAKER_00: the prefecture had prohibited all gatherings.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Paris,
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  SPEAKER_00: police ordered a late change to the union-organized route,
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  SPEAKER_00: moving it from Bastille to Nation onto a stretch between Port d'Italie
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  SPEAKER_00: and Port de Vincennes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Members of the Yellow Vest Movement,
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  SPEAKER_00: which emerged in 2018 over living costs, refused to comply with the change.
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  SPEAKER_00: Last Saturday,
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  SPEAKER_00: October 17th,
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  SPEAKER_00: more than half a million people marched, and the protests turned violent nationwide.
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  SPEAKER_00: At least two people died and two lost hands.
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  SPEAKER_00: Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin has said about 2,700 people were held
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  SPEAKER_00: for questioning and 232 were incarcerated.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jean-Luc Mélenchon,
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  SPEAKER_00: leader of La France Insoumise,
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  SPEAKER_00: marched in Paris and told President Emmanuel Macron to give in.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said the protests would happen every week.
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  SPEAKER_00: He also said a general strike called by the CGT Union would follow on November 5
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  SPEAKER_00: if Macron did not respond to the protesters' demands.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Yellow Vest Movement called new rallies for October 31,
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  SPEAKER_00: with sit-ins outside parliament and city halls.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Orléans, the far-right national rally opened its Congress.
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  SPEAKER_00: Party President Jordan Bardello was re-elected with 98.98% of the vote running unopposed.
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  SPEAKER_00: The prefecture counted 11,000 people marching against the Congress by noon.
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  SPEAKER_00: Marine Le Pen, a candidate in the 2027 presidential election, speaks on Sunday.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Cost of Borrowing Moody's left France's credit rating at AA3 on Friday.
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  SPEAKER_00: The outlook has been negative since last October.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bond markets had priced in a downgrade.
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  SPEAKER_00: On Thursday, France's 10-year bond yield hit 5.14%, its highest since July 2002.
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  SPEAKER_00: Moody's said the rating assumes a deficit-reducing 2027 budget will be adopted and
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  SPEAKER_00: that social tensions will ease somewhat in the coming months.
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  SPEAKER_00: The presidential election is on April 18 and May 2, 2027.
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  SPEAKER_00: Polls suggest the far right could win.
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  SPEAKER_00: Traps.
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  SPEAKER_00: On Friday morning,
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  SPEAKER_00: a gunman fired from a car in Traps in neighboring La Verriere,
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  SPEAKER_00: about 20 kilometers west of Paris.
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  SPEAKER_00: He killed one man and wounded five people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Police arrested a 39-year-old man,
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  SPEAKER_00: identified in French reporting as Kevin T, in nearby Coinières.
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  SPEAKER_00: The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office said police found
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  SPEAKER_00: a Sten-type submachine gun and a tear gas canister in his car.
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  SPEAKER_00: It said his flat in Plaisir was rigged with three gas bottles
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  SPEAKER_00: and electric wires connected to a timer.
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  SPEAKER_00: The dead man was born in 2000 and was a French national.
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  SPEAKER_00: The office opened an investigation for murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise.
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  SPEAKER_00: The charge carries the aggravating circumstance of the victim's real
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  SPEAKER_00: or supposed race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion.
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  SPEAKER_00: Macron went to Trapez on Friday evening and called it a terrorist and racist attack.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said it was the first terrorist act planned to kill French people because
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  SPEAKER_00: of their skin color or religion.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trape's Mayor Ali Rabbe said the dead man was of African origin and the person in
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  SPEAKER_00: the most urgent condition was of North African origin.
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  SPEAKER_00: Investigators have not yet established whether the victims were chosen
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  SPEAKER_00: for their origin or whether the gunman fired at whoever he met on his route.
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  SPEAKER_00: Reports differ on the toll and on the condition of a 12-year-old girl who was hit eight times.
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  SPEAKER_00: Early statements gave four wounded.
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  SPEAKER_00: The prosecutor's evening statement gave five, none yet in stable condition.
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  SPEAKER_00: The mayor of La Verrière said the girl was seriously wounded and stable.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another report said her life was in danger.
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  SPEAKER_00: The suspect's custody was extended on Saturday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Four relatives and friends, including his mother, are being questioned.
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  SPEAKER_00: Translators note,
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  SPEAKER_00: in France,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Saturday marches are read as a school dispute that nobody has settled,
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  SPEAKER_00: now carrying everything else.
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  SPEAKER_00: It began in late September at a high school in Craytail outside Paris
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  SPEAKER_00: over teacher shortages and missing resources.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Education Ministry found that nearly 10% of teaching hours went untaught
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  SPEAKER_00: in public secondary schools in 2024-25.
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  SPEAKER_00: Students want smaller classes,
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  SPEAKER_00: enough teachers,
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  SPEAKER_00: repaired buildings,
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  SPEAKER_00: and less exhausting timetables,
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  SPEAKER_00: and many object to Parker Sup, the National University Admissions Platform.
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  SPEAKER_00: A government platform drew 100,000 student contributions,
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  SPEAKER_00: mostly on timetables, building repairs and absent teachers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Education Minister Edouard Giffray said the movement has no national demands, only local ones.
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  SPEAKER_00: Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu answered in early October with five initiatives,
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  SPEAKER_00: among them keeping classes running,
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  SPEAKER_00: repairing buildings,
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  SPEAKER_00: making Parkersup more transparent and acting on student proposals.
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  SPEAKER_00: He promised a timeline and funding plan by the end of the month.
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  SPEAKER_00: On Friday, Macron met student groups for the first time.
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  SPEAKER_00: They say he promised to overhaul Parker Sup.
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  SPEAKER_00: LeCornu set a plan on teacher numbers,
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  SPEAKER_00: class sizes and buildings would come early in the coming week.
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  SPEAKER_00: Student leader Nathaniel Comberry said we are not satisfied and urged pupils
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  SPEAKER_00: to keep mobilizing while they await proposals at Monday's talks with
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  SPEAKER_00: the Prime Minister.
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  SPEAKER_00: The government is to say then whether the measures start in 2027 or later.
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  SPEAKER_00: The dispute has grown because it met a 54 billion euro 2027 budget package
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  SPEAKER_00: that includes a fourth straight freeze on civil service pay and because anger
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  SPEAKER_00: over living costs has brought yellow vest supporters alongside the students.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trap has arrived inside that fortnight.
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  SPEAKER_00: Macron called it a turning point and warned against ideas taking hold
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  SPEAKER_00: that could justify such acts.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mayor Ali Rebaix said responsibility is shared.
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  SPEAKER_00: According to a source close to the case,
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  SPEAKER_00: the suspect raised the October 17 violence when he was arrested.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is the suspect's own reference and not a finding.
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  SPEAKER_00: A poll taken after that violence put Marine Le Pen at 33 to 35% in the first round.
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  SPEAKER_00: The dates to watch are Monday's talks and the funding plan due by the end of October.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know,
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  SPEAKER_00: France held a second Saturday of nationwide protests over living costs
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  SPEAKER_00: and school funding.
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  SPEAKER_00: Paris police described the march there as calm,
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  SPEAKER_00: tear gas was used in four other cities, and 135 people were detained.
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  SPEAKER_00: A gunman killed one man and wounded five in traps on Friday,
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  SPEAKER_00: and the president described it as racist terrorism.
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  SPEAKER_00: France's credit rating was left unchanged on Friday,
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  SPEAKER_00: with the 10-year borrowing cost at its highest since 2002.
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  SPEAKER_00: Seven killed at Jordan Funeral.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gunmen opened fire during a funeral at a Greek Orthodox church in Carrick,
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  SPEAKER_00: Jordan, on Friday, killing seven people and wounding 40, authorities said.
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  SPEAKER_00: Carrick is about 180 kilometers south of the capital, Amman.
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  SPEAKER_00: Footage on Jordanian state television showed two gunmen,
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  SPEAKER_00: apparently armed with pistols, approaching the church and firing.
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  SPEAKER_00: A third man,
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  SPEAKER_00: apparently carrying a semi-automatic rifle,
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  SPEAKER_00: then approached and fired before all three ran toward the church.
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  SPEAKER_00: A mourner said heavy gunfire began about 15 minutes after the funeral started.
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  SPEAKER_00: He did not see the gunman.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said other people reported seeing four.
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  SPEAKER_00: The number of attackers could not be independently verified.
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  SPEAKER_00: A government statement said the attack was carried out by unknown assailants and
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  SPEAKER_00: that investigations were underway.
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  SPEAKER_00: It did not say whether any gunman had been captured or killed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Health Minister Ibrahim al-Budor said two of the wounded are in critical condition.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jordan declared three days of national mourning.
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  SPEAKER_00: King Abdullah II said Jordan would confront the attack with the harshest penalties,
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  SPEAKER_00: Prime Minister Jafar Hassan called it the result of terrorist ideology
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  SPEAKER_00: and blind extremism.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Oman and Iraq condemned the attack.
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  SPEAKER_00: The United Nations Secretary General,
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  SPEAKER_00: Antonio Guterres,
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  SPEAKER_00: called it especially heinous and said those responsible must be held to account.
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  SPEAKER_00: Karak has a minority Christian population.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 2016,
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  SPEAKER_00: gunmen carried out a series of attacks on police in Carrack,
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  SPEAKER_00: including at a Crusader Castle popular with tourists.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ten people were killed, including seven officers and a Canadian tourist.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gunmen attacked a funeral at a Greek Orthodox Church in Karak,
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  SPEAKER_00: Jordan on Friday, killing seven people and wounding 40.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jordanian authorities have not said who carried out the attack,
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  SPEAKER_00: or whether any gunmen were caught.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jordan declared three days of national mourning,
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  SPEAKER_00: and the United Nations Secretary General condemned the attack.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sources, CBC, AP, The Manila Times, UN News.
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  SPEAKER_00: Officer in Wiley shooting resins.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hunter Foster,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Senatobia,
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  SPEAKER_00: Mississippi,
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  SPEAKER_00: police officer who shot and killed one-year-old Cohen Wiley, has resigned.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mayor Greg Graves confirmed the resignation on Friday.
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  SPEAKER_00: City Clerk Katie Harbin said Foster turned in a resignation letter.
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  SPEAKER_00: Interim Police Chief Angelica Mays also resigned but is staying with the department
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  SPEAKER_00: in a different capacity, Harbin said.
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  SPEAKER_00: Foster's lawyer,
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  SPEAKER_00: Martin Zumick,
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  SPEAKER_00: said Foster resigned for the good of the city and the department and
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  SPEAKER_00: to permit healing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Zumick said Foster denies knowing a child was in the car.
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  SPEAKER_00: Cohen was shot on June 14 in the parking lot of a Walmart.
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  SPEAKER_00: On Monday,
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  SPEAKER_00: Attorney General Lynn Fitch's office found the use of force justified,
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  SPEAKER_00: said there was insufficient evidence of criminal conduct to present the case to
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  SPEAKER_00: a grand jury and declined prosecution.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Mississippi Department of Public Safety released body camera video on Thursday.
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  SPEAKER_00: In it, officers shout for the car to stop.
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  SPEAKER_00: Accounts of the footage differ on what the car does next.
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  SPEAKER_00: One says it appears to move toward at least one officer before Foster fires into it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Others say Foster steps toward the car,
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  SPEAKER_00: puts a hand on the hood and moves aside before he fires.
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  SPEAKER_00: Felizia Wiley disputes that the driver drove toward officers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Foster later told another officer he could not see a baby in the car.
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  SPEAKER_00: Zomek said the driver was trying to kill five officers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Reports differ on why officers were at the store.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation has said police were responding to
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  SPEAKER_00: a shoplifting investigation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Police suspected Cohen's mother,
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  SPEAKER_00: Valesia Wiley, and her friend of taking diapers and baby clothes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wiley denies it, and neither woman has been charged.
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  SPEAKER_00: An incident report quoted in local reporting says the call concerned an unknown male
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  SPEAKER_00: that was attempting to sexually harass customers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Zumick says Foster was part of a team investigating an unrelated case in which
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  SPEAKER_00: an adult tried to sexually assault a minor on the store's property.
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  SPEAKER_00: He says Foster did not know the women were suspected of shoplifting.
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  SPEAKER_00: The family's attorney,
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  SPEAKER_00: Ben Crump, said a badge cannot simply be turned in to escape responsibility.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said he will keep pressing for accountability.
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  SPEAKER_00: Cohen would have turned two on November 1, Crump said.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hunter Foster,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Mississippi officer who shot and killed one-year-old Cohen Wiley in June,
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  SPEAKER_00: has resigned.
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  SPEAKER_00: The state attorney general declined prosecution on Monday,
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  SPEAKER_00: and state video of the shooting was released on Thursday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Accounts differ on why officers were at the Walmart.
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  SPEAKER_00: State investigators said shoplifting, and an incident report describes a sexual harassment call.
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  SPEAKER_00: The family's attorney says the push for accountability will continue.
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  SPEAKER_00: Israel demolishes homes in Hebron.
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  SPEAKER_00: Israeli forces have forced Palestinians from their homes in Hebron,
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  SPEAKER_00: demolished buildings,
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  SPEAKER_00: and closed the city, a day after an attack killed two Israeli soldiers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hebron's mayor, Yousef al-Jabari, said 2,200 people had been forced from their homes.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Israeli military says two Palestinian gunmen killed two soldiers at
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  SPEAKER_00: a checkpoint near the city on Friday and lightly wounded three more.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says the gunmen were shot dead.
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  SPEAKER_00: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would lock down Hebron,
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  SPEAKER_00: go house to house and demolish homes.
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  SPEAKER_00: We will act to destroy this place, to change it completely, he said.
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  SPEAKER_00: Finance Minister Bezelel Smotrich said he had ordered the immediate demolition
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  SPEAKER_00: of Palestinian buildings near the attack site.
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  SPEAKER_00: A reporter saw bulldozers begin demolishing homes near the site.
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  SPEAKER_00: Residents said the homes had no connection to the attackers.
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  SPEAKER_00: On Saturday,
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  SPEAKER_00: the military said it was operating in the Al-Jalada
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  SPEAKER_00: and Ain Der Baha neighborhoods near the checkpoint to search for militants
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  SPEAKER_00: and weapons.
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  SPEAKER_00: It said it would carry out demolitions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Al-Jabari said the military had demolished shops, factories, homes, and roads.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said residents can neither enter nor leave the city.
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  SPEAKER_00: Residents said soldiers announced evacuation orders over loudspeakers late at night,
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  SPEAKER_00: leaving them no time to prepare.
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  SPEAKER_00: Residents also saw soldiers' mark emptied homes with a black X.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was not clear what the mark meant.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Israeli military carried out raids in at least 15 areas of the West Bank on Saturday.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Palestinian Prisoners Club said Israeli forces arrested about 70 Palestinians
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  SPEAKER_00: on Friday and Saturday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Israeli officials have not commented on arrests.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Palestinian Authority called the operation collective punishment and asked
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  SPEAKER_00: for international pressure on Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Al-Jabari said the operation was motivated by Tuesday's election and an effort
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  SPEAKER_00: to win settler votes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Opinion polls show Netanyahu's right-wing coalition may lose its majority.
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  SPEAKER_00: Netanyahu avoided saying whether he plans to dismantle the Palestinian Authority.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said a big surprise awaits it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz both compared the Hebron operation
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  SPEAKER_00: to mass demolitions in Palestinian refugee camps in 2025,
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  SPEAKER_00: which expelled tens of thousands of people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Human Rights Watch later said those expulsions amounted to war crimes and crimes
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  SPEAKER_00: against humanity.
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  SPEAKER_00: Israel responded that it had to demolish civilian infrastructure
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  SPEAKER_00: so militants could not exploit it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Across the West Bank, Israel has blocked the entrances to most Palestinian cities and towns.
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  SPEAKER_00: A resident of Yada said the closure stopped him from taking his daughter
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  SPEAKER_00: to Jerusalem for cancer treatment.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know,
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  SPEAKER_00: Israeli forces have forced Palestinians from their homes in Hebron
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  SPEAKER_00: and are demolishing buildings after an attack that killed two Israeli soldiers
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  SPEAKER_00: on Friday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hebron's mayor says 2,200 people have been forced from their homes.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Palestinian Authority objects to the operation,
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  SPEAKER_00: and the Israeli military says it is searching for militants and weapons.
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  SPEAKER_00: Israel votes on Tuesday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump says iron strikes possible.
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  SPEAKER_00: President Donald Trump said on Friday that
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  SPEAKER_00: the United States may carry out another operation against Iran.
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  SPEAKER_00: We may do another little Epic Fury, he told a rally in Florida.
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  SPEAKER_00: Epic Fury is the U.S. name for the initial wave of strikes in the war, which began in February.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hours earlier,
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  SPEAKER_00: Tom Barrack,
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  SPEAKER_00: the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: ambassador to Turkey and a special envoy of Trump's,
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  SPEAKER_00: was asked whether a strike could come over the weekend and answered, absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_00: He added that the president remains open to a deal.
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  SPEAKER_00: The White House said on Thursday the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: would not resume attacks on Iran before the November 3 midterm elections.
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  SPEAKER_00: Senior U.S. military officials have presented Trump with options for new strikes.
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  SPEAKER_00: They include strikes on the tunnels or entrances of Iran's nuclear facilities,
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  SPEAKER_00: such as Pickaxe Mountain.
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  SPEAKER_00: They also include strikes on Iran's strategic islands,
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  SPEAKER_00: among them Karg Island,
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  SPEAKER_00: which holds the vast majority of Iran's oil production,
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  SPEAKER_00: and Keshem in the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. official and a former U.S. official said.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Director of National Intelligence,
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  SPEAKER_00: Jay Clayton, sent a memo to Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday.
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  SPEAKER_00: It said Iranian plots against U.S. citizens have reached advanced stages.
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  SPEAKER_00: A U.S. official confirmed the memo is authentic.
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  SPEAKER_00: The State Department has ordered further staff reductions at diplomatic posts
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  SPEAKER_00: in Lebanon,
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  SPEAKER_00: the United Arab Emirates,
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  SPEAKER_00: Qatar and Jordan,
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  SPEAKER_00: a State Department official said,
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  SPEAKER_00: those posts have operated with limited staffing since the war began.
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  SPEAKER_00: A US official said who the attacks
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  SPEAKER_00: and Iranian plots targeting US officials are informing the decisions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sources have said the US military has been quietly scaling back its troop presence
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  SPEAKER_00: at bases across the region.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rafael Grossi,
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  SPEAKER_00: head of the International Atomic Energy Agency,
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  SPEAKER_00: told the United Nations General Assembly on Friday that inspectors should return
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  SPEAKER_00: to Iran quickly.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said the groundwork for a diplomatic agreement has been done and that a return
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  SPEAKER_00: of inspectors requires a return to negotiations.
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  SPEAKER_00: Iran has sharply restricted inspectors' access since the June 2025 strikes on its nuclear sites.
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  SPEAKER_00: In March,
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  SPEAKER_00: the agency estimated that just over 200 kilograms of uranium enriched
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  SPEAKER_00: to 60% remained at Isfahan, with more at Natanz.
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  SPEAKER_00: In September, its board of governors referred Iran's noncompliance to the Security Council.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tehran contests that,
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  SPEAKER_00: Translators note,
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  SPEAKER_00: outside the U.S.,
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  SPEAKER_00: Another little epic fury is read as the war colliding
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  SPEAKER_00: with Trump's election calendar.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is France 24's frame built on Reuters and AFP.
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  SPEAKER_00: He has signaled openness to strikes but not before the November 3 midterms,
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  SPEAKER_00: and fuel prices weigh on the vote.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ynet makes the same link from Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: It adds an approval rating of about 31%,
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  SPEAKER_00: plans for a brief,
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  SPEAKER_00: intense operation after the election with no decision made,
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  SPEAKER_00: and Iranian threats against data centers and undersea internet cables if
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  SPEAKER_00: the war resumes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Iranian officials say a renewed round would not be brief.
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  SPEAKER_00: France 24 says Trump did not elaborate on the remark, so its purpose is open.
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  SPEAKER_00: What the reporting fixes is the calendar.
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  SPEAKER_00: Israel votes on Tuesday in the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: a week later, and the operation described is built for the days after.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know,
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump said the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: may carry out another operation against Iran,
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  SPEAKER_00: a day after the White House said there would be no strikes before
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  SPEAKER_00: the November 3 midterms.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Director of National Intelligence has told Rubio that Iranian plots against U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: officials are at advanced stages and the State Department is cutting staff at posts
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  SPEAKER_00: in four Middle Eastern countries.
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  SPEAKER_00: The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency told the UN General Assembly that
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  SPEAKER_00: the groundwork for an agreement exists.
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  SPEAKER_00: Briefs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kim Jong Un in China.
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  SPEAKER_00: North Korea's leader crossed the newly opened New Yalu River Bridge into
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  SPEAKER_00: the Chinese border city of Dandong on Saturday and returned home the same day.
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  SPEAKER_00: China's state news agency reported.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wang Huning,
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  SPEAKER_00: China's fourth-ranked official,
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  SPEAKER_00: accompanied him and conveyed greetings from President Xi Jinping.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: Kim visited a Korean War memorial and toured a local auto factory.
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  SPEAKER_00: The bridge opened about a week ago, 12 years after it was completed.
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  SPEAKER_00: The visit fell on the eve of the anniversary of China's entry into the Korean War.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kim's last known visit to China was in September 2025.
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  SPEAKER_00: L. Fasher
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  SPEAKER_00: One year after paramilitary forces rampaged through El Fasher in Sudan,
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  SPEAKER_00: UN women said survivors still live in fear.
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  SPEAKER_00: Regional Director Anna Mutavadi told reporters in Geneva on Friday that nine
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  SPEAKER_00: in ten Sudanese aid organizations surveyed had found women or girls in distress
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  SPEAKER_00: who had received no mental health,
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  SPEAKER_00: psychosocial, or legal support since fleeing the city.
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  SPEAKER_00: She said drone attacks are increasing across Blue Nile,
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  SPEAKER_00: Khartoum,
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  SPEAKER_00: West Kordofan,
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  SPEAKER_00: Gederef,
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  SPEAKER_00: and Kasala, and that most of those killed or injured are women and children.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_00: Police used water cannon on protesters in Tirana on Saturday, according to wire photographs.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_00: Protesters set fire to dumpsters and threw stones in tear gas canisters.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_00: Chair cushions offered to protesters as an invitation to dialogue were set alight
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  SPEAKER_00: in front of a government building.
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  SPEAKER_00: On October 17th,
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  SPEAKER_00: the fifth day of a student-led movement demanding
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_00: that Prime Minister Aidy Rama resign,
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_00: police figures showed 500 protesters detained, 330 of them released.
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  SPEAKER_00: Police registered 120 officers and 45 protesters as injured.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rama said earlier that week he would not step down.
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  SPEAKER_00: Spain.
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  SPEAKER_00: Authorities reported 250,000 people in central Madrid on Saturday,
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  SPEAKER_00: demanding protection for the state pension scheme and protesting the cost
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  SPEAKER_00: of living ahead of next month's parliamentary election.
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  SPEAKER_00: Officer in Wiley's shooting resigns.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hunter Foster,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Senatobia,
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  SPEAKER_00: Mississippi,
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  SPEAKER_00: police officer who shot and killed one-year-old Cohen Wiley, has resigned.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mayor Greg Graves confirmed the resignation on Friday.
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  SPEAKER_00: City Clerk Katie Harbin said Foster turned in a resignation letter.
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  SPEAKER_00: Interim Police Chief Angelica Mays also resigned but is staying with the department
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  SPEAKER_00: in a different capacity, Harbin said.
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  SPEAKER_00: Foster's lawyer,
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  SPEAKER_00: Martin Zumick,
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  SPEAKER_00: said Foster resigned for the good of the city and the department and
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  SPEAKER_00: to permit healing.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_00: Zumick said Foster denies knowing a child was in the car.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_00: Cohen was shot on June 14 in the parking lot of a Walmart.
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  SPEAKER_00: On Monday,
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  SPEAKER_00: Attorney General Lynn Fitch's office found the use of force justified,
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  SPEAKER_00: said there was insufficient evidence of criminal conduct to present the case to
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  SPEAKER_00: a grand jury and declined prosecution.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Mississippi Department of Public Safety released body camera video on Thursday.
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  SPEAKER_00: In it, officers shout for the car to stop.
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  SPEAKER_00: Accounts of the footage differ on what the car does next.
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  SPEAKER_00: One says it appears to move toward at least one officer before Foster fires into it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Others say Foster steps toward the car, puts a hand on the hood and moves aside before he fires.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lilizia Wiley disputes that the driver drove toward officers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Foster later told another officer he could not see a baby in the car.
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  SPEAKER_00: Zummick said the driver was trying to kill five officers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Reports differ on why officers were at the store.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation has said police were responding to
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  SPEAKER_00: a shoplifting investigation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Police suspected Cohen's mother,
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  SPEAKER_00: Valizia Wiley, and her friend of taking diapers and baby clothes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wiley denies it, and neither woman has been charged.
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  SPEAKER_00: An incident report quoted in local reporting says the call concerned an unknown male
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  SPEAKER_00: that was attempting to sexually harass customers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Zumick says Foster was part of a team investigating an unrelated case in which
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_00: an adult tried to sexually assault a minor on the store's property.
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  SPEAKER_00: He says Foster did not know the women were suspected of shoplifting.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_00: The family's attorney,
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  SPEAKER_00: Ben Crump, said a badge cannot simply be turned in to escape responsibility.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said he will keep pressing for accountability.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_00: Cohen would have turned two on November 1, Crump said.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know,
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_00: Hunter Foster,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Mississippi officer who shot and killed one-year-old Cohen Wiley in June,
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  SPEAKER_00: has resigned.
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  SPEAKER_00: The state attorney general declined prosecution on Monday,
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  SPEAKER_00: and state video of the shooting was released on Thursday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Accounts differ on why officers were at the Walmart,
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  SPEAKER_00: state investigators said shoplifting,
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  SPEAKER_00: and an incident report describes a sexual harassment call.
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  SPEAKER_00: The family's attorney says the push for accountability will continue.
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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 tomorrow with some good news.
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