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The Rest of the World Report | October 12, 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 Monday morning, October 12th.
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  SPEAKER_00: A Houthi missile killed 13 people at Rion's main airport on Saturday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Saudi civil aviation authorities say 309 people were wounded.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some are in critical condition.
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  SPEAKER_00: Saudi authorities list 12 of the dead.
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  SPEAKER_00: Four Saudis,
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  SPEAKER_00: two Bangladeshis,
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  SPEAKER_00: and one each from the United States, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Sudan, and Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was the third attack in a week on King Khalid International Airport.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thursday's strike killed three Saudis, including a pilot.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hours after Saturday's attack,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Saudi-led coalition said a projectile fell near King Fahd International Airport
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  SPEAKER_00: in Daman.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Houthis say they struck the Riyadh airport in three phases, beginning Friday evening.
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  SPEAKER_00: The head of their media office said the group had shut the airport down,
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  SPEAKER_00: and on Sunday,
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  SPEAKER_00: Saudi authorities said another strike on the airport killed a Pakistani resident
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  SPEAKER_00: and wounded 11.
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  SPEAKER_00: They extended the suspension of operations on Monday.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Houthis have declared Saudi airspace a zone of military operation and have told
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  SPEAKER_00: the airlines to avoid it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Any aircraft there, except over Mecca and Medina, is a target.
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  SPEAKER_00: They also claimed attacks on two Aramco sites in eastern Saudi Arabia,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Shakdam gas facility and a refinery in Tanajib.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Saudi-led coalition called Saturday's strike a full-fledged war crime
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  SPEAKER_00: and said it will respond decisively.
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  SPEAKER_00: Saudi Arabia's energy minister called for a firm response at a conference in Riyadh on Monday.
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  SPEAKER_00: The attacks come as Yemen's government presses an offensive against the Houthis
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  SPEAKER_00: with Saudi air support.
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  SPEAKER_00: The scale of the attacks in Riyadh is unprecedented since the Yemen war began in 2014.
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  SPEAKER_00: President Donald Trump called the attacks terrible and said he is evaluating whether
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  SPEAKER_00: the United States should join the war against the Houthis.
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  SPEAKER_00: Translator's note.
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  SPEAKER_00: Outside of the United States,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Riyadh strikes are read as a threat to Gulf energy security,
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  SPEAKER_00: not only an attack on an airport.
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  SPEAKER_00: AFP's account leads with Saudi Arabia's energy minister.
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  SPEAKER_00: He warned that energy security cannot be taken for granted.
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  SPEAKER_00: Iraq called for a comprehensive end to military operations.
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  SPEAKER_00: Russia said the region's problems can only be resolved by diplomacy,
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  SPEAKER_00: while Iran voiced concern without condemning the attacks and offered
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  SPEAKER_00: to facilitate dialogue.
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  SPEAKER_00: China condemned them and Eight nationalities are among the dead.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Houthi strikes on Riyadh's airport this week have killed at least 13 people,
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  SPEAKER_00: one of them an American.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump is weighing whether to join the war,
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  SPEAKER_00: and U.S. citizens in Saudi Arabia are told to avoid the airport.
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  SPEAKER_00: Moscow has not confirmed
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  SPEAKER_00: the energy ceasefire President Donald Trump announced Sunday via Truth Social.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump posted that the ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine was in effect immediately.
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  SPEAKER_00: He wrote that both parties had agreed and told them, do not break it.
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  SPEAKER_00: He gave no details.
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  SPEAKER_00: President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared surprised,
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  SPEAKER_00: and he said, Ukraine supports the ceasefire, then Russia must support it too.
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  SPEAKER_00: Later, he said Russian strikes had hit multiple Ukrainian power plants on Sunday,
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  SPEAKER_00: including one in the capital and one in Kharkiv.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ukraine's grid operator introduced emergency power cuts in several regions.
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  SPEAKER_00: The announcement came two days after the United States eased sanctions on Russian diesel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Zelensky condemned that deal,
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  SPEAKER_00: and on Saturday, Trump said it was time for Ukraine to get a new president.
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  SPEAKER_00: Zelensky said in an interview that Ukrainians will choose their own leader.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said Ukraine would organize elections within a 60-day total ceasefire.
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  SPEAKER_00: The United Kingdom, France, Canada, and the European Commission backed the ceasefire.
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  SPEAKER_00: French President Emmanuel Macron said France supports a real energy ceasefire and
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  SPEAKER_00: that Russia refuses one by intensifying its strikes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Germany's foreign minister said Berlin continues to support Zelensky.
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  SPEAKER_00: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said the diesel deal works
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  SPEAKER_00: against Allied efforts to bring stability to Europe.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fighting continued.
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  SPEAKER_00: Russia struck two apartments in Slovyansk on Sunday morning and injured four people,
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  SPEAKER_00: the mayor said.
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  SPEAKER_00: Warehouses burned outside Kiev after an overnight attack.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ukrainian drones hit a Yandex data center in Vladimir, east of Moscow, overnight.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was the third Yandex data center attacked this month.
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  SPEAKER_00: The company says that the Vladimir Center has halted operations.
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  SPEAKER_00: Taxi services failed in Russian cities and similar problems were reported in Serbia,
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  SPEAKER_00: Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Armenia.
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  SPEAKER_00: Russia's defense ministry says it shot down 479 Ukrainian drones over 17 regions in Crimea.
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  SPEAKER_00: Translator's note.
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  SPEAKER_00: Outside the United States,
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  SPEAKER_00: the diesel deal and the ceasefire announcement read as a fuel price move aimed at
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  SPEAKER_00: the midterms, with costs for Kiev and Washington's own sanctions strategy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Germany's DPA calculates that 300,000 tons covered about 14 hours of U.S. diesel use.
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  SPEAKER_00: Berlin says it keeps its sanctions and takes no Russian oil.
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  SPEAKER_00: London says it will keep strengthening its own.
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  SPEAKER_00: A German analysis says Trump is relying on Putin for domestic relief
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  SPEAKER_00: and risks undercutting his own sanctions policy.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump announced an energy ceasefire that Moscow has not confirmed two days
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  SPEAKER_00: after easing sanctions on Russian diesel.
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  SPEAKER_00: At least six U.S. senators called that deal illegal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Iran says Washington's answer to its seven conditions for reopening the Strait
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  SPEAKER_00: of Hormuz is not enough.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mohsen Rezai, Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, said so Sunday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hassan Kashkavi,
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  SPEAKER_00: a spokesman for the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee,
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  SPEAKER_00: said the conditions were set by the highest authorities and cannot be revised
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  SPEAKER_00: at lower levels.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kashkavi said Qatar conveyed Washington's response.
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  SPEAKER_00: In his account,
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  SPEAKER_00: it asked Iran to reopen the strait first and to carry out
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  SPEAKER_00: the seven conditions gradually afterward.
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  SPEAKER_00: Iran's position is that the conditions come first.
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  SPEAKER_00: Its parliament speaker said the same thing on October 4th.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kashkavi said Iran's seven-day proposal changes the timetable and not the terms.
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  SPEAKER_00: The framework discussed in Islamabad has periods of 30 and 60 days.
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  SPEAKER_00: He questioned why Washington wants to discuss Iran's nuclear program
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  SPEAKER_00: when it says its strikes destroyed it.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said Iran wants to know what precisely the United States wants to discuss,
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  SPEAKER_00: and said that the next move belongs to Washington.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump told a campaign crowd, either they give us everything or they don't exist any longer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Two ships were hit Sunday.
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  SPEAKER_00: A drone struck the tanker Petrodolphin at anchor off Sohar Oman.
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  SPEAKER_00: India's shipping minister said nine of its 11 Indian crew were rescued and two are missing.
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  SPEAKER_00: An unidentified projectile struck the tanker Valthera in the Strait of Hormuz.
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  SPEAKER_00: The UK Maritime Trade Operation Agency said all 11 of its crew are safe.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know?
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  SPEAKER_00: Iran says Washington's answer on reopening the Strait of Hormuz is not enough.
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  SPEAKER_00: Iranian officials are citing the November 3rd midterms in their bargaining.
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  SPEAKER_00: French police arrested 1,949 people on October 1st,
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  SPEAKER_00: more than on the yellow vest movement's record day.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Interior Ministry announced the figure.
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  SPEAKER_00: The yellow vest record was 1,723 arrests on December 8th, 2018, many of them preventative.
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  SPEAKER_00: Law enforcement says it made 6,059 arrests between September 28th and October 5th.
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  SPEAKER_00: Actions were reported at 180 high schools on September 28th,
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  SPEAKER_00: and by October 1st, the number was more than 1,000.
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  SPEAKER_00: On October 1st,
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  SPEAKER_00: Interior Minister Laurent Nunez announced riot police and gendarmes to respond
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  SPEAKER_00: to what he called urban violence.
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  SPEAKER_00: He told prefects on September 30th
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  SPEAKER_00: that proportionate force must never inhibit action to restore order.
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  SPEAKER_00: On October 2nd, he said police had been given no instructions for restraint.
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  SPEAKER_00: Footage has shown the results.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Alençon and Normandy,
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  SPEAKER_00: an officer used a chokehold on a 14-year-old girl as she said she could not breathe.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Paris,
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  SPEAKER_00: a senior police commissioner detained two bystanders because they were filming
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  SPEAKER_00: a police operation.
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  SPEAKER_00: On several occasions, plainclothes officers, who were not identified as police, mocked students.
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  SPEAKER_00: A 16-year-old was blinded in one eye on September 30th.
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  SPEAKER_00: The prosecutor,
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  SPEAKER_00: Catherine Sarita Menard,
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  SPEAKER_00: said the injury was consistent with a shot from a rubber bullet launcher.
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  SPEAKER_00: Cédric Moreau de Beling is a sociologist at the École Normale Supérieure.
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  SPEAKER_00: He says French crowd control now treats an operation as successful
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  SPEAKER_00: when disturbances are minimized or prevented, which makes force far more likely.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bertrand Caballier is a retired gendarme general.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said the first officers on the scene often come from street units
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  SPEAKER_00: that are less well trained for crowd control.
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  SPEAKER_00: On October 5th,
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  SPEAKER_00: the National Police Commissioner's Union published a guide for students on the rules
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  SPEAKER_00: of protesting.
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  SPEAKER_00: The footage has strengthened the resolve of students already blockading.
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  SPEAKER_00: It has also brought in new groups of young people,
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  SPEAKER_00: teachers, unions, and many other adults who were outraged.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: French police arrested 1,949 people on October 1st during student protests.
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  SPEAKER_00: More than on the Yellow Vest Movement's record day, and a 16-year-old was blinded in one eye.
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  SPEAKER_00: At least eight people were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza on Saturday,
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  SPEAKER_00: the first anniversary of the ceasefire.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of the dead was an eight-year-old girl named Shad Abdul Razak Al-Najjar.
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  SPEAKER_00: She was killed by an Israeli quadcopter drone in the Al-Jawazad area of western Gaza City.
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  SPEAKER_00: Four more people died in a separate attack near a roundabout in the same part of
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  SPEAKER_00: the city, according to Al-Shifa Hospital.
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  SPEAKER_00: One was killed in a drone attack in the Tufa neighborhood.
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  SPEAKER_00: A woman died of her injuries in Khan Yunus, And one more person was killed in the north.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gaza's health ministry says at least 1,481 Palestinians have been killed
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  SPEAKER_00: and 5,254 injured since the ceasefire took effect on October 10th last year.
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  SPEAKER_00: On Friday, more than 100 aid and rights organizations said the ceasefire exists in name only.
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  SPEAKER_00: They cited daily killings and restrictions on aid and rebuilding materials.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Rest of the World Report's five-part special report series
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  SPEAKER_00: before October 7th Again on the anniversary of the ceasefire,
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  SPEAKER_00: part one and two are published, with the rest coming over the next three nights.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: A year into the ceasefire,
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  SPEAKER_00: Gaza's health ministry counts 1,481 Palestinians killed since it began,
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  SPEAKER_00: and 5,254 injured.
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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: Thank you so much for listening.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Rudy Martinez, and I will see you all again this evening.
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