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The Rest of the World Report | October 28, 2026 — Morning Edition · The Rest of the World Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Good morning from Paris.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Rudy Martinez with The Rest of the World Report for Wednesday morning, October 28th.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is a gorgeous fall morning in Paris, by the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: First up, Russian satellites over Saudi targets.
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  SPEAKER_00: Russian government and military satellites orbited above the target areas
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  SPEAKER_00: in all 40 attacks on Saudi Arabia that a Geneva intelligence firm examined.
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  SPEAKER_00: The attacks were carried out between July 1st and October 19th by the Houthi rebels
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  SPEAKER_00: in Yemen and by militias in Iraq, both backed by Iran.
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  SPEAKER_00: The firm,
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  SPEAKER_00: Aurora Geo Signal Intelligence,
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  SPEAKER_00: found the satellite overhead for days before and after each one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Its founder, Nawaf Abayed, calls the pattern a 100% match.
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  SPEAKER_00: On September 10th,
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  SPEAKER_00: drone strikes from Iraq hit three pumping stations
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  SPEAKER_00: on Saudi Arabia's east-west pipeline.
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  SPEAKER_00: The pipeline is an alternative route for Saudi crew to reach the Red Sea
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  SPEAKER_00: while Iran attacks shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
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  SPEAKER_00: The firm says 11 Russian Cosmos 2600 satellites concentrated on those sections
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  SPEAKER_00: of pipeline from July.
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  SPEAKER_00: A week later, Houthi projectiles hit King Fahd Air Base in Taif.
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  SPEAKER_00: Italy's defense ministry says an Italian Eurofighter typhoon was damaged,
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  SPEAKER_00: and for both attacks,
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  SPEAKER_00: the firm counted 50% more Russian satellites over the targets in the 72 hours around
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  SPEAKER_00: the strikes than it had in July.
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  SPEAKER_00: The firm did not intercept any transmission of intelligence to Iran or its allies.
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  SPEAKER_00: It infers from the pattern that intelligence was collected and passed on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Adam Marsh,
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  SPEAKER_00: an analyst for the Orbital Intelligence from Leo Labs,
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  SPEAKER_00: said the massing of satellites is what one would expect
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  SPEAKER_00: from intelligence collection.
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  SPEAKER_00: Three officials and a private intelligence analyst say the Houthis
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  SPEAKER_00: and other Iranian allies have benefited from Russian intelligence
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  SPEAKER_00: and Chinese capabilities.
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  SPEAKER_00: The officials include one from Saudi Arabia and one in the Houthis' top ranks.
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  SPEAKER_00: A senior Houthi leader,
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  SPEAKER_00: who was not named,
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  SPEAKER_00: said Iranian advisors in Yemen gave the rebels targeting data based
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  SPEAKER_00: on Russian satellite intelligence.
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  SPEAKER_00: Saudi Arabia's Deputy Minister for Public Diplomacy,
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  SPEAKER_00: Raid Krimli,
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  SPEAKER_00: said last week that Iran and the Houthis receive intelligence from, quote,
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  SPEAKER_00: elements in Russia and China, even commercial elements sometimes, close quote.
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  SPEAKER_00: Russian officials had no immediate comment on the allegations.
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  SPEAKER_00: Obaid said the same satellite pattern appeared around Iranian strikes on U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: bases in the Middle East during the war that began in February.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know?
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  SPEAKER_00: A Geneva intelligence firm examined 40 Houthi and Iraqi military attacks
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  SPEAKER_00: on Saudi Arabia between July and October.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says Russian government and military satellites were over the target areas in all
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  SPEAKER_00: of them, but it did not intercept any transmissions.
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  SPEAKER_00: A Saudi deputy minister says Iran and the Houthis received intelligence
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  SPEAKER_00: from elements in Russia and China.
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  SPEAKER_00: Russian officials had no immediate comment.
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  SPEAKER_00: A drone strike hit a market in Nayala in Sudan's Darfur region on Monday night.
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  SPEAKER_00: Counts of the dead ranged from 21 to more than 100.
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  SPEAKER_00: The strike came around 8 p.m., a Nyala resident said, at a market in the north of the city.
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  SPEAKER_00: A medic at Nyala Hospital said on Tuesday that 21 people were killed and more than 40 injured.
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  SPEAKER_00: Doctors Without Borders said earlier that 36 bodies had arrived at its hospital in Nyala.
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  SPEAKER_00: They reported seeing 150 injured in their emergency room.
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  SPEAKER_00: Emergency Lawyers,
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  SPEAKER_00: a group that tracks violence in Sudan,
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  SPEAKER_00: said in a statement on Tuesday that more than 100 people were killed
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  SPEAKER_00: and 113 injured.
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  SPEAKER_00: Said many of the dead and injured were women and children and blamed
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  SPEAKER_00: the Sudanese military and called for an investigation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another Nayala resident said the market was frequented by armed men,
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  SPEAKER_00: particularly fighters of the paramilitary rapid support forces.
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  SPEAKER_00: The hospital medic said he could not tell how many of the victims were RSF fighters.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nayala is the RSF's de facto capital in Darfur.
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  SPEAKER_00: The RSF has set up an authority there that competes with
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  SPEAKER_00: the internationally recognized government in Khartoum.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Sudanese army, which has fought the RSF since April 2023, regularly strikes the city.
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  SPEAKER_00: The RSF has also been striking power infrastructure.
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  SPEAKER_00: Its drones hit six power stations on Monday and cut electricity to millions
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  SPEAKER_00: of people in Gezira, White Nile, Senar, and Gadarif states.
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  SPEAKER_00: On Tuesday,
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  SPEAKER_00: a drone struck a transformer station in Omdurman,
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  SPEAKER_00: on the outskirts of Khartoum,
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  SPEAKER_00: and left large parts of the capital without power for more than 12 hours.
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  SPEAKER_00: An electricity company official who was not named Translators note,
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  SPEAKER_00: The wounded figures do not rise with the dead figures.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ordered by the dead count, the injured run more than 40, then 150, then 113.
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  SPEAKER_00: That points to counts taken at different times and in different places.
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  SPEAKER_00: The second question is who was in the market?
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  SPEAKER_00: Women and children, according to the rights group, or armed men, according to a resident?
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  SPEAKER_00: Both can be true,
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  SPEAKER_00: and the medic who gave the 21 said he could not say how many of
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  SPEAKER_00: the dead were fighters.
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  SPEAKER_00: The group has called for an independent investigation,
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  SPEAKER_00: and until one reports, the toll rests on these counts.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: A drone strike hit a market in Nayala Sudan on Monday night.
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  SPEAKER_00: Counts of the dead ranged from 21 from a hospital medic to more than 100 from
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  SPEAKER_00: a Sudanese rights group that blames the army.
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  SPEAKER_00: Doctors Without Borders says 36 reached the hospital.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nayala is the base of the paramilitary rapid support forces,
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  SPEAKER_00: which have fought the army since 2023.
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  SPEAKER_00: Border chief confirms China face-offs.
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  SPEAKER_00: The head of India's border police says face-offs with Chinese troops are continuing
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  SPEAKER_00: at several places in Arunachal Pradesh.
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  SPEAKER_00: Shatrujit Kapoor,
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  SPEAKER_00: Director General of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police,
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  SPEAKER_00: spoke at a ceremony honoring the force's personnel.
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  SPEAKER_00: His remarks were reported on October 23rd.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said a face-off had happened at several places in the state in recent days and
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  SPEAKER_00: that it continues.
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  SPEAKER_00: He praised the force's newly raised Sharia commandos for their role.
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  SPEAKER_00: Arunachal Pradesh is India's northeastern state on the border with China.
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  SPEAKER_00: Local civil society groups there had said months earlier
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  SPEAKER_00: that Chinese forces were encroaching and denying Indian troops access
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  SPEAKER_00: to patrolling points.
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  SPEAKER_00: A fact-finding team from a local party,
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  SPEAKER_00: the People's Party of Arunachal,
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  SPEAKER_00: accused China of obstructing Indian patrols in the taxing sector.
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  SPEAKER_00: The state's Bharatiya Janata Party government dismissed the allegations as unnecessary.
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  SPEAKER_00: Union Minister Karin Rajuju had said China did not occupy any new territory but
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  SPEAKER_00: that there were issues regarding grazing areas.
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  SPEAKER_00: As of Tuesday,
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  SPEAKER_00: five days after Kapoor's remarks,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Indian government had not confirmed the nature of the border tensions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jaram Ramesh,
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  SPEAKER_00: an MP from the opposition Congress Party,
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  SPEAKER_00: accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of keeping the details secret.
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  SPEAKER_00: Chinese President Xi Jinping visited New Delhi in September,
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  SPEAKER_00: his first trip to India in seven years.
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  SPEAKER_00: He met Modi at the BRICS summit as the two governments pursued a cautious thaw.
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  SPEAKER_00: Six years ago,
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  SPEAKER_00: at least 20 Indian troops were killed in hand-to-hand fighting with Chinese forces
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  SPEAKER_00: in Ladakh.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: India's border police chief says face-offs with Chinese troops are continuing
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  SPEAKER_00: at several places in Aranuchal Pradesh.
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  SPEAKER_00: The state is on India's northeastern border with China.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Indian government has not confirmed what is happening.
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  SPEAKER_00: The report comes weeks after Chinese President Xi Jinping visited New Delhi when
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  SPEAKER_00: the two countries were pursuing a thaw.
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  SPEAKER_00: India turns critical of Trump.
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  SPEAKER_00: India's foreign minister said in September that Washington's lack of empathy
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  SPEAKER_00: for India's terrorism concerns Subramanyam Jaishankur,
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  SPEAKER_00: India's external affairs minister,
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  SPEAKER_00: spoke at an Asia Society event in New York on Monday, September 28th.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said few countries have faced the kind of terrorism India has faced from
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  SPEAKER_00: a neighbor as a deliberate policy over many decades.
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  SPEAKER_00: India has long described that neighbor as Pakistan.
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  SPEAKER_00: He named trade as a second source of friction.
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  SPEAKER_00: India is one of the countries hit hardest by Trump's tariffs,
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  SPEAKER_00: and a trade deal that would relieve it has not been reached.
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  SPEAKER_00: India's finance minister,
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  SPEAKER_00: Nirmala Sitharaman,
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  SPEAKER_00: He said in October that the talks had reached a plateau beyond which giving
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  SPEAKER_00: or taking might be very difficult.
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  SPEAKER_00: In September,
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump signed a law allowing tariffs of up to 100% on countries like India
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  SPEAKER_00: that buy Russian oil.
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  SPEAKER_00: He paused it to avoid raising U.S. energy prices before the midterms.
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  SPEAKER_00: Secretary of State Marco Rubio,
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  SPEAKER_00: who visited Mumbai this week and skipped the capital,
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  SPEAKER_00: said in an interview that none of these tariffs are meant to punish or harm India.
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  SPEAKER_00: He did not rule out that similar measures would return.
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  SPEAKER_00: Milan Vaishnav of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said,
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  SPEAKER_00: He said many Democrats and Republicans in Congress are livid with
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  SPEAKER_00: the administration's handling of ties with India.
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  SPEAKER_00: Michael Kugelman,
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  SPEAKER_00: a Washington-based South Asia analyst,
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  SPEAKER_00: doubts the midterm results would change Trump's policy on India.
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  SPEAKER_00: Praveen Dhanthi of the International Crisis Group said
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  SPEAKER_00: a weakened Trump might not bring relief
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  SPEAKER_00: because Trump-aligned Republicans broadly agree on pressuring India.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 2019,
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  SPEAKER_00: Modi stood beside Trump in a Houston stadium with more than 50,000 Indian Americans
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  SPEAKER_00: and used the slogan,
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: India's foreign minister said in September
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  SPEAKER_00: that Washington does not understand India's terrorism concerns.
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  SPEAKER_00: He named trade as the second source of friction.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trade talks have stalled and Trump has paused a law allowing tariffs of up to 100%
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  SPEAKER_00: on buyers of Russian oil.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some analysts say New Delhi may prefer a Trump weakened by the midterms,
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  SPEAKER_00: while others doubt the results would change his India policy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Attacks kill 60 Orthodox Christians.
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  SPEAKER_00: Two attacks in Ethiopia's Oromaya region killed at least 60 Orthodox Christians,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church says.
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  SPEAKER_00: The church's Holy Synod said on Monday that 14 people were killed on October 20th
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  SPEAKER_00: in Merdi District and 46 on Saturday, October 24th in Shurka District.
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  SPEAKER_00: Both districts are in the Arsi zone of Oromaya.
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  SPEAKER_00: More than 20 people were seriously wounded and 20 homes burned.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Synod calls the attacks brutal and merciless massacres.
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  SPEAKER_00: A Christian resident of a nearby town said he went to the village in Shurka,
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  SPEAKER_00: where Saturday's attacks happened,
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  SPEAKER_00: for funerals and counted the wounded loaded onto a truck.
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  SPEAKER_00: A priest in the same town said he saw wounded people arrive at the hospital near his home.
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  SPEAKER_00: Both asked not to be named because they feared for their safety.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hailu Adugna,
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  SPEAKER_00: spokesperson for the Oromaya regional government, blamed the Oromo Liberation Army.
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  SPEAKER_00: He accused the rebels and their allies of trying to provoke ethnic
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  SPEAKER_00: and religious conflict to divert attention from military losses
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  SPEAKER_00: in northern Ethiopia.
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  SPEAKER_00: He presented no evidence.
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  SPEAKER_00: No group had claimed responsibility as of Tuesday.
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  SPEAKER_00: The OLA could not be reached for comment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Its leader, Kumsah Dariba, said in February that his fighters do not target civilians.
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  SPEAKER_00: Adugna also said regional authorities had begun taking action against those responsible.
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  SPEAKER_00: The OLA is one of seven groups in an alliance formed in September
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  SPEAKER_00: to remove Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government.
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  SPEAKER_00: It includes the Tigray People's Liberation Front and the Amhara Fano National Movement.
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  SPEAKER_00: Government forces have fought the OLA in Oramia, Ethiopia's largest region since 2018.
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  SPEAKER_00: U.N. investigators have accused the OLA of killings, rapes, and kidnappings.
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  SPEAKER_00: Human rights monitors have also documented abuses by government forces.
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  SPEAKER_00: Translators note, The two accounts of the killings are addressed to different readers.
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  SPEAKER_00: The church's statement is addressed to the state.
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  SPEAKER_00: It asks the government to condemn the attacks publicly,
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  SPEAKER_00: protect civilians, and bring those responsible to justice.
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  SPEAKER_00: The regional government's statement is addressed to the war.
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  SPEAKER_00: It names a rebel alliance formed in September to remove Prime Minister Abiy,
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  SPEAKER_00: and it says the aim is to divert attention from military losses
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  SPEAKER_00: in northern Ethiopia.
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  SPEAKER_00: That places a massacre in Oromia inside the war in the north.
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  SPEAKER_00: The accusation rests on a spokesperson's statement with no evidence presented
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  SPEAKER_00: and no claim of responsibility from any group.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Synod has said it will seek talks with senior government officials.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Two attacks in Ethiopia's Oromia region killed at least 60 Orthodox Christians.
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  SPEAKER_00: The regional government blames the Oromo Liberation Army rebels and has presented no evidence.
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  SPEAKER_00: No group has claimed the attacks.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trains collide in Spain.
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  SPEAKER_00: At least 10 people are dead after two high-speed trains collided near Erda
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  SPEAKER_00: in Toledo province in central Spain on Wednesday morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was the toll the regional government had confirmed as of 1053 this morning in Madrid.
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  SPEAKER_00: Its spokeswoman, Esther Padilla, said the number will rise.
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  SPEAKER_00: One British report says at least 39 have died.
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  SPEAKER_00: Padilla said the trains were heading in the same direction and one ran into the tail
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  SPEAKER_00: of the other while it was stopped.
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  SPEAKER_00: State Rail Company Renfe says one of their trains hit one of the Irio trains at
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  SPEAKER_00: the entrance to the Erda station.
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  SPEAKER_00: Irio is a private operator.
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  SPEAKER_00: Spain's Transport Ministry said earlier indications are that the Renfe train struck from behind.
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  SPEAKER_00: Both trains were traveling from Madrid to Sevilla, and the cause is not known.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Irio train carried 146 passengers and a baby,
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  SPEAKER_00: and the Renfe train carried 400,
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  SPEAKER_00: according to Padilla, citing the rail infrastructure manager, Adif.
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  SPEAKER_00: Adif suspended traffic on the Madrid-Andalusia high-speed line in both directions.
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  SPEAKER_00: The mayor of Erda,
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  SPEAKER_00: Manuel Galán,
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  SPEAKER_00: said emergency services asked the town hall to prepare a sports hall for
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  SPEAKER_00: the injured.
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  SPEAKER_00: Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez cleared his agenda for the day.
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  SPEAKER_00: The opposition People's Party canceled its campaign events as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: In January,
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  SPEAKER_00: 45 people died in southern Spain when a train left the track and hit
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  SPEAKER_00: an oncoming train.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was the deadliest crash in Spain since 2013, when 80 people died.
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  SPEAKER_00: Translator's note.
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  SPEAKER_00: Spain is reading this crash against January's.
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  SPEAKER_00: It arrived in the middle of a pre-election campaign and
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  SPEAKER_00: the party stopped campaigning within hours.
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  SPEAKER_00: The People's Party leader,
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  SPEAKER_00: Alberto Núñez Viejo,
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  SPEAKER_00: wrote of a new rail accident, a phrase that puts this one beside January's.
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  SPEAKER_00: That crash shook confidence in the high-speed network.
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  SPEAKER_00: The cause of this one is not established.
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  SPEAKER_00: The transport ministry gives early indicators only,
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  SPEAKER_00: and the regional government says one train hit the back of another.
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  SPEAKER_00: What the investigation finds will be read against January.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: At least 10 people are dead after two high-speed trains collided in central Spain
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  SPEAKER_00: on Wednesday morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: The regional government says the toll will rise.
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  SPEAKER_00: One train ran into the back of another, and the cause is not known.
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  SPEAKER_00: It follows a crash in January that killed 45.
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  SPEAKER_00: Finally, a couple of quick updates.
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  SPEAKER_00: A partial count of just over 55%
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  SPEAKER_00: of ballot boxes gives Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud-led coalition 56 of
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  SPEAKER_00: the 120 seats in Israel's parliament,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Knesset, and the opposition bloc, led by Gaddy Eisencott, 49.
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  SPEAKER_00: The unaligned Arab-led parties have 15.
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  SPEAKER_00: These figures replaced Tuesday night's exit poll projections.
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  SPEAKER_00: Turnout reached 77.7%,
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  SPEAKER_00: according to the Central Elections Committee,
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  SPEAKER_00: and that was the highest in over a quarter century.
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  SPEAKER_00: Netanyahu has dismissed a partnership with Arab parties
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  SPEAKER_00: whose constituents make up 20% of Israel's population as treasonous.
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  SPEAKER_00: Weeks of coalition negotiations could lie ahead.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bolsonaro leaves Brazil.
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  SPEAKER_00: Flavio Bolsonaro,
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  SPEAKER_00: who lost Sunday's presidential runoff to Luis Ignacio Lula de Silva,
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  SPEAKER_00: crossed into Argentina at 10.50 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: with his wife and two daughters, Argentina's Migration Authority said on Wednesday.
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  SPEAKER_00: The family boarded a private charter flight whose file flight plan listed Guayaquil, Ecuador.
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  SPEAKER_00: Reports on Tuesday said he was heading to the United States and
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  SPEAKER_00: that Argentina had no record of his entry.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Migration Authority now says it recorded the crossing.
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  SPEAKER_00: The U.S. State Department has said it will issue visas to him and his family.
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  SPEAKER_00: Brazil's Supreme Court had ordered him to surrender his passports on Tuesday,
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  SPEAKER_00: and allies say he also holds an Italian passport.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lula said Bolsonaro could have stayed to prove the accusations false
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  SPEAKER_00: and called leaving shameful.
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  SPEAKER_00: Finally, Qatar and Iran.
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  SPEAKER_00: An update to Tuesday's evening edition,
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  SPEAKER_00: which carried only the Iranian account of the meeting in Moscow between Qatar's Amir
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  SPEAKER_00: and Iran's president.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Amir's office said Amir Sheikh Taman bin Hamid al-Fani
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  SPEAKER_00: and President Massoud Bezeshkin discussed the Middle East war and
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  SPEAKER_00: the blockaded Strait of Hormuz.
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  SPEAKER_00: Iranian state television said the two reviewed relations and the importance
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  SPEAKER_00: of deepening political and economic ties.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it for this morning's edition of The Rest of the World Report.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Rudy Martinez, and I will see you all again this evening.
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