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The Rest of the World Report | October 22, 2026 — Evening Edition · The Rest of the World Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Good evening from Paris.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Rudy Martinez with The Rest of the World Report for Thursday evening, October 22nd.
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  SPEAKER_00: Strikes planned for after midterms.
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  SPEAKER_00: According to two Israeli sources,
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  SPEAKER_00: the United States and Israel have drawn up plans to renew joint strikes on Iran in
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  SPEAKER_00: the coming weeks.
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  SPEAKER_00: The sources said the strikes would almost certainly come after the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: midterm elections on November 3rd.
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  SPEAKER_00: President Donald Trump does not want to unsettle oil markets in the final days of
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  SPEAKER_00: the campaign, they said.
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  SPEAKER_00: The U.S. newspaper reported the planning first.
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  SPEAKER_00: One source said the plans were discussed
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  SPEAKER_00: during Defense Secretary Pete Hexeth's unannounced visit
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  SPEAKER_00: to Israel earlier this week.
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  SPEAKER_00: The targets would include petrochemical facilities and nuclear sites, the sources said.
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  SPEAKER_00: They said there are no plans to strike civilian infrastructure such as power plants.
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  SPEAKER_00: One said regime change,
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  SPEAKER_00: not a negotiated deal,
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  SPEAKER_00: is the Israeli government's top goal, and that the only question is timing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Both...
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  SPEAKER_00: So the decision is Trump's alone,
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  SPEAKER_00: and one did not rule out Israel acting on its own,
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  SPEAKER_00: though it would still need U.S. consent.
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  SPEAKER_00: White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said the United States, quote,
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  SPEAKER_00: will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the midterm elections, close quote.
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  SPEAKER_00: Earlier this month, Trump said the U.S. would not attack Iran before the midterms.
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  SPEAKER_00: And on Thursday,
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  SPEAKER_00: he told reporters outside the White House,
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  SPEAKER_00: quote, we've knocked the hell out of them, close quote.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the U.S. may go further.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Revolutionary Guard repeated its threat to extend the confrontation to U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: bases in the Middle East.
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  SPEAKER_00: Iran is widely known not to have a nuclear device.
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  SPEAKER_00: The late Supreme Leader,
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  SPEAKER_00: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
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  SPEAKER_00: banned developing nuclear weapons in a religious edict in the early 2000s.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even so,
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  SPEAKER_00: Mohammed Saleh Jokar,
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  SPEAKER_00: who heads Parliament's Internal Affairs Committee,
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  SPEAKER_00: asked authorities to permit the use of nuclear weapons as a deterrent if the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: attacks again.
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  SPEAKER_00: He also said Iran...
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  SPEAKER_00: The U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: Central Command said on Thursday that it has now enforced its naval blockade of Iran
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  SPEAKER_00: for 100 days.
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  SPEAKER_00: It said the blockade has kept at least $25 billion in crude oil from being exported
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  SPEAKER_00: and that nothing has entered or left Iran by sea except humanitarian aid the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: allows.
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  SPEAKER_00: Translator's Notes Outside the United States,
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  SPEAKER_00: Tehran's reading of the reported strike plans is that the talks are
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  SPEAKER_00: a holding pattern.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tehran believes Trump wants to get past the midterms,
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  SPEAKER_00: not the end of the war, and Iranian officials say the next move is Washington's.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Tehran Times, an Iranian-English-language daily, set that out in a long piece on Wednesday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Foreign Minister Abbas Arakji told an Iraqi channel that Iran has been
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  SPEAKER_00: through three rounds of talks and each one ended in war.
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  SPEAKER_00: Iran has met the election timetable with a promise to hit back without limit.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the words of an Iranian source cited by state broadcaster Press TV,
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  SPEAKER_00: that includes the aggressor's supporters in the region.
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  SPEAKER_00: Read with the guard's threat against U.S. bases, that points at the states that host them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Irakji described Iran's readiness for war as a message to calculate
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  SPEAKER_00: before entering it again,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is to Iran's own account of its threats as a deterrence.
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  SPEAKER_00: If the Israeli sources are right,
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  SPEAKER_00: the window opens after November 3rd,
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  SPEAKER_00: and Tehran has said in advance that it will not hold back.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: According to two Israeli sources,
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  SPEAKER_00: the United States and Israel have drawn up plans to strike Iran again after
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  SPEAKER_00: the November 3rd midterms.
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  SPEAKER_00: The White House says the U.S. will not attack before the election.
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  SPEAKER_00: Iran has threatened U.S. bases,
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  SPEAKER_00: and a senior Iranian lawmaker has asked for nuclear weapons to be permitted as
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  SPEAKER_00: a deterrent, though Iran is not known to have any.
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  SPEAKER_00: The U.S. blockade of Iran is now run for 100 days.
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  SPEAKER_00: A federal judge in Miami ordered President Donald Trump to sit for a deposition
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  SPEAKER_00: by December 11th in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC,
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  SPEAKER_00: according to news reports.
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  SPEAKER_00: Magistrate Judge Angelique Lett gave the order at a hearing on Thursday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump's lawyers had asked for a date between January 11th and January 22nd,
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  SPEAKER_00: Lett also warned them that his complaint could be dismissed if he does not give
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  SPEAKER_00: the BBC lawyers the records relevant to the case.
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  SPEAKER_00: BBC attorney Charles Tobin told the judge that Trump had agreed to be deposed
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  SPEAKER_00: by October 16th, then canceled for a matter of national importance.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump was campaigning in Georgia that day, Tobin said.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was participating in party politics and prioritized that over sitting for the deposition.
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  SPEAKER_00: In a recent filing,
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  SPEAKER_00: the BBC's lawyers accused Trump's team of dragging its feet on Discovery,
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  SPEAKER_00: the exchange of documents.
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  SPEAKER_00: They said Trump's side sent back documents the BBC had already produced
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  SPEAKER_00: and gathered webpages anyone can read.
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  SPEAKER_00: The BBC said it had nothing to add.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump sued on December 15, 2025,
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  SPEAKER_00: over a Panorama documentary aired a week before the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
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  SPEAKER_00: The suit says the film was edited to make it appear
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  SPEAKER_00: that Trump explicitly urged his supporters to attack the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: Capitol in his January 6, 2021 speech.
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  SPEAKER_00: The BBC's chair apologized for the edit shortly before the suit was filed,
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  SPEAKER_00: and the BBC promised not to air the documentary again.
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  SPEAKER_00: It said it strongly disagrees that there is any basis for a defamation claim.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know is that a federal judge ordered Donald Trump
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  SPEAKER_00: to sit for a deposition by December 11 in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against
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  SPEAKER_00: the BBC.
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  SPEAKER_00: His lawyers had asked for January.
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  SPEAKER_00: The judge warned that the case could be dismissed if he does not hand over relevant records.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ukraine hits Russian data centers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ukrainian drones have hit five of Russia's main data centers this month,
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  SPEAKER_00: and most experts predict repairs will take months or even years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Three belonged to Yandex, which Russians use for search, payments, taxis, and online shopping.
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  SPEAKER_00: One belonged to Severbank, Russia's biggest bank, and one to the social network Vkontakte.
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  SPEAKER_00: Drones hit Yandex's center in Sasovo in the Ryazan region on October 8th.
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  SPEAKER_00: It houses two of the company's three supercomputers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Cyberbank's data center and AI Hub in Balakovo in the Saratov region was hit on October 14th.
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  SPEAKER_00: People and businesses across Russia have reported widespread interruptions to cloud services.
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  SPEAKER_00: Banking,
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  SPEAKER_00: e-commerce,
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  SPEAKER_00: geolocation,
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  SPEAKER_00: and ride-hailing suffered,
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  SPEAKER_00: as did Yandex's Alyssa virtual assistant and its AI chat box.
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  SPEAKER_00: Arbitration courts were reported to have canceled or postponed sessions
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  SPEAKER_00: and lost access to their databases.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yandex said it restored most key cloud services within days by moving
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  SPEAKER_00: to other Russian data centers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Satellite images indicate serious damage.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some observers say fires probably damaged high-end chips and other key equipment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yandex's three supercomputers,
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  SPEAKER_00: which it uses to develop AI models, rank among the world's top 500.
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  SPEAKER_00: The most powerful at Sasebo ranked 19th.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mikhail Klimarev,
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  SPEAKER_00: who heads the Internet Protection Society,
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  SPEAKER_00: said, quote, this effectively sets Russia far behind in the AI race, close quote.
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  SPEAKER_00: Connor Martin of the Council on Foreign Relations said Russia will likely struggle
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  SPEAKER_00: to replace quickly the U.S.-designed NVIDIA A100 chips that power
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  SPEAKER_00: the supercomputers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Russia requires data to be stored at home,
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  SPEAKER_00: so its infrastructure is concentrated and easier to take down,
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  SPEAKER_00: said Nick Reiners of the Eurasia Group.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said Russia does not have enough air defense to cover so large a country.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was not immediately clear which defenses near the site failed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Klimarev predicted that Russian firms may now rent computing power in Europe and
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  SPEAKER_00: that authorities may ease the push toward an isolated internet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Russia has struck Ukrainian data centers and telecommunications sites over
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  SPEAKER_00: the past month, including targets in Kyiv.
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  SPEAKER_00: About 100,000 households lost internet access temporarily after one attack.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said on October 8th,
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  SPEAKER_00: quote, we always respond in mirror-like fashion, close quote.
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  SPEAKER_00: Iranian drones also hit two Amazon Web Services data centers in
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  SPEAKER_00: the United Arab Emirates and one in Bahrain.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amazon Web Services said last month that it could not restore access to
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  SPEAKER_00: the resources and data hosted at two of them.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know,
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  SPEAKER_00: Ukrainian drones hit five Russian data centers between October 8th and October 18th,
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  SPEAKER_00: three of them Yandex's.
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  SPEAKER_00: The strikes disrupted banking,
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  SPEAKER_00: shopping,
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  SPEAKER_00: and ride-hailing across Russia,
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  SPEAKER_00: and experts expect repairs to take months or even years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ukraine's attacks followed Russian strikes on Ukrainian data centers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Critical flaw hits PHP.
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  SPEAKER_00: The organization behind PHP and the FBI's cyber division warned on Wednesday
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  SPEAKER_00: of two critical vulnerabilities in the programming language that powers about 70%
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  SPEAKER_00: of websites.
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  SPEAKER_00: PHP runs WordPress and Drupal,
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  SPEAKER_00: which governments commonly use, and MediaWiki, the software behind Wikipedia.
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  SPEAKER_00: The PHP Foundation said attackers could exploit the flaws to get access to sites
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  SPEAKER_00: without logging in.
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  SPEAKER_00: James Sullivan,
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  SPEAKER_00: Director of Cyber and Tech at the Royal United Service Institute in London,
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  SPEAKER_00: Said that would let attackers control a web server remotely without a password.
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  SPEAKER_00: They could then steal or alter data or use the server to launch other attacks.
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  SPEAKER_00: Advisories told users to patch their sites or shut them down
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  SPEAKER_00: if they could not update immediately.
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  SPEAKER_00: Several websites were taken offline.
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  SPEAKER_00: Government services and websites were disrupted,
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  SPEAKER_00: including in the United Kingdom, Finland, and Japan.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some may still be down while organizations wait for patches for different software
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  SPEAKER_00: and test them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Charles Vanderwalt of Orange Cyber Defense called the reaction the early tremors
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  SPEAKER_00: of disruption in the weeks and months ahead as attackers scanned
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  SPEAKER_00: for vulnerable systems.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Foundation says the flaws have been known since at least 2024.
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  SPEAKER_00: Its security team developed several competing fixes, each with downsides.
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  SPEAKER_00: Progress stalled because no practical way to exploit the flaws seemed to exist.
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  SPEAKER_00: The foundation took responsibility and said the delay was a structural failure
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  SPEAKER_00: of its security team's decision process and its lack of resources.
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  SPEAKER_00: Humans first discovered the flaws.
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  SPEAKER_00: AI agents then helped identify how they could be exploited and helped test
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  SPEAKER_00: and validate the fixes.
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  SPEAKER_00: OpenAI said in a blog post that it led a coalition of researchers
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  SPEAKER_00: and security providers on the PHP vulnerabilities over the past two months.
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  SPEAKER_00: Researchers at Wiz, a cloud security company, said they independently used AI to find them.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Really what everyone needs to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Two critical flaws in PHP, which runs about 70% of websites, were disclosed on Wednesday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Attackers could take control of a server without a password,
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  SPEAKER_00: and some sites went offline,
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  SPEAKER_00: including government sites in the UK, Finland, and Japan.
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  SPEAKER_00: Patches exist, but are still being rolled out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sakharov Prize goes to the ICC.
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  SPEAKER_00: The European Parliament awarded its 2026 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to
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  SPEAKER_00: the International Criminal Court.
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  SPEAKER_00: Parliament President Roberta Metzola announced the decision in Strasbourg on Thursday.
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  SPEAKER_00: The decision was taken by the Conference of Presidents,
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  SPEAKER_00: which brings together Metzola and the leaders of other political groups.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Socialists and Democrats group nominated the court,
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  SPEAKER_00: and parliamentary sources say Renew Europe, the Greens, and the Left supported it.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Chamber gave the announcement a standing ovation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mazzola said the prize recognizes,
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  SPEAKER_00: quote, the work of those who bring justice to victims, close quote.
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  SPEAKER_00: The court beat two other finalists,
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  SPEAKER_00: Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu and the Iranian sisters Terane
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  SPEAKER_00: and Romina Rahimi.
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  SPEAKER_00: Patriots for Europe,
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  SPEAKER_00: which nominated them,
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  SPEAKER_00: says they were sentenced to death and to 25 years in prison, respectively.
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  SPEAKER_00: The right was divided.
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  SPEAKER_00: The European People's Party, the European Conservatives, and the Reformists...
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  SPEAKER_00: And Europe of Sovereign Nations backed Lisieux,
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  SPEAKER_00: while Patriots for Europe stayed with Rahimi sisters.
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  SPEAKER_00: On October 9th,
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  SPEAKER_00: the United States sanctioned the court itself,
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  SPEAKER_00: going beyond earlier sanctions on individual judges and prosecutors,
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  SPEAKER_00: including court president Tomoko Akane.
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  SPEAKER_00: Secretary of State Marco Rubio said transactions with the court would be banned
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  SPEAKER_00: after a six-month grace period.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rubio has argued that the court threatens American sovereignty.
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  SPEAKER_00: Neither the United States nor Israel is a party to the Rome Statute, the treaty that created it.
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  SPEAKER_00: EU institutions have condemned each round of U.S. measures.
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  SPEAKER_00: In July,
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  SPEAKER_00: the 27 member states issued a declaration of support that did not name
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  SPEAKER_00: the United States.
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  SPEAKER_00: Days before the award,
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  SPEAKER_00: members of the European Parliament
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  SPEAKER_00: from several groups urged Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to shield
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  SPEAKER_00: the court, including through the EU blocking statute.
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  SPEAKER_00: The block has not invoked it.
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  SPEAKER_00: The court has moved banking and software arrangements in anticipation
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  SPEAKER_00: of being cut off from U.S. suppliers.
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  SPEAKER_00: EU Foreign Policy Chief Kayakalas is expected in The Hague on Friday to restate
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  SPEAKER_00: the bloc's backing, according to European sources.
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  SPEAKER_00: The prize carries 50,000 euros.
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  SPEAKER_00: The court and its officials are due to collect it in Strasbourg on December 16th.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: The European Parliament gave its Human Rights Prize to
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  SPEAKER_00: the International Criminal Court, which the U.S. sanctioned on October 9th.
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  SPEAKER_00: The prize is 50,000 euros,
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  SPEAKER_00: and the EU has not used its blocking statute to shield the court from U.S. measures.
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  SPEAKER_00: Serbia.
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  SPEAKER_00: Serbians vote on Sunday in a snap parliamentary elections,
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  SPEAKER_00: in which a student-led list is the main challenger to the party
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  SPEAKER_00: of former President Alexander Vucic.
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  SPEAKER_00: Vucic resigned as president on September 27th
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  SPEAKER_00: to lead his right-wing Serbian Progressive Party into the vote.
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  SPEAKER_00: He has been prime minister or president for 12 years and cannot seek a third presidential term.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anna Brnovic,
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  SPEAKER_00: an ally,
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  SPEAKER_00: is acting president,
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  SPEAKER_00: and an early presidential election must be held by the end of this year.
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  SPEAKER_00: The challenge began on November 1st, 2024,
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  SPEAKER_00: when a concrete canopy collapsed at the renovated railway station in Novi Sad
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  SPEAKER_00: and killed 16 people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Students blamed corruption and demanded accountability.
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  SPEAKER_00: The protests became the biggest in Serbia in years.
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  SPEAKER_00: The students now run as student list student win.
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  SPEAKER_00: The movement has no leader,
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  SPEAKER_00: decides by vote in daily assemblies called plenums,
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  SPEAKER_00: and has kept its protests peaceful.
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  SPEAKER_00: Its lead candidate is Ilya Serdanovich, a cardiologist.
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  SPEAKER_00: Its 11-point student plan sets no fixed deadlines.
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  SPEAKER_00: Students walked for days to reach Belgrade for the movement's final major rally before the vote.
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  SPEAKER_00: Opposition parties and rights watchdogs accused Vucic and his party
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  SPEAKER_00: of bribing voters,
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  SPEAKER_00: stifling media freedom, violence against opponents, and ties to organized crime.
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  SPEAKER_00: Vucic and his allies deny the allegation, and he has called the students terrorists.
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  SPEAKER_00: On September 27th,
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  SPEAKER_00: he told state television that foreign powers and unidentified people
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  SPEAKER_00: in Serbia planned to stir unrest on election night.
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  SPEAKER_00: He offered no evidence.
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  SPEAKER_00: Analysts said in late September that the student list and Vucic's party were polling close.
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  SPEAKER_00: Natasa Kandic,
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  SPEAKER_00: who founded the Humanitarian Law Center in Belgrade,
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  SPEAKER_00: said the students have led protests entirely without violence.
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  SPEAKER_00: She doubts the movement can change a political climate In
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  SPEAKER_00: which convicted war criminals are celebrated and Kosovo is treated as part
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  SPEAKER_00: of Serbia.
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  SPEAKER_00: Serbia's efforts to join the European Union have stalled under Vucic because
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  SPEAKER_00: of democratic backsliding and his refusal to join sanctions against Russia over
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  SPEAKER_00: the war in Ukraine.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Serbia holds snap parliamentary elections on Sunday.
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  SPEAKER_00: A student-led list,
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  SPEAKER_00: born of the 2024 Novi Sad station collapse,
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  SPEAKER_00: is challenging the party of former President Vucic,
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  SPEAKER_00: who resigned to run for prime minister.
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  SPEAKER_00: Analysts call a race close in late September.
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  SPEAKER_00: Serbia's EU membership talks have stalled under Vucic.
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  SPEAKER_00: And finally, a couple of quick briefs.
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  SPEAKER_00: West Bank.
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  SPEAKER_00: An Israeli court in Jerusalem released 9 of 10 settler suspects arrested over
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  SPEAKER_00: the attacks on a Washington Post photojournalist and on European diplomats
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  SPEAKER_00: and placed them under house arrest according to a law firm that represents settlers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Police said one suspect remains in custody.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yonatan Kananich of the Israeli rights group Yesh Din said most attacks
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  SPEAKER_00: on Palestinians bring no arrests and that in publicized cases,
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  SPEAKER_00: most arrested settlers are released soon after.
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  SPEAKER_00: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said the situation
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  SPEAKER_00: in occupied Palestinian territory is out of control.
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  SPEAKER_00: A Palestinian government commission recorded 409 attacks in October,
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  SPEAKER_00: 317 by settlers and 92 by Israeli forces.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mexico.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mexico has charged former Chihuahua Attorney General Cesar Jaregui with treason,
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  SPEAKER_00: accusing him of letting U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: agents take part in an anti-drug operation in the state.
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  SPEAKER_00: Two U.S. agents and two Mexican officers died in a car crash there on April 19th.
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  SPEAKER_00: Media identified the Americans as CIA.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jaregui said at the time that no foreign personnel took part and that U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: instructors were running a drone training session nearby.
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  SPEAKER_00: Federal Attorney General Ernestina Godoy accused him
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  SPEAKER_00: of letting foreign agents take part without telling federal officials,
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  SPEAKER_00: and a judge ordered him held pending a decision on whether the case proceeds.
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  SPEAKER_00: An analyst at the Eurasia Group said the charge seeks to prevent Mexican states
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  SPEAKER_00: from cooperating with the United States without federal approval.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jaregui belongs to the opposition National Action Party.
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  SPEAKER_00: President Claudia Scheinbaum leads the Morena Party.
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  SPEAKER_00: And last but not least, Argentina.
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  SPEAKER_00: Argentina has designated five Latin American criminal and guerrilla groups
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  SPEAKER_00: as terrorist organizations,
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  SPEAKER_00: including Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, in a decision published Thursday.
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  SPEAKER_00: The others are Mexico's Nueva Familia Micoacana,
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  SPEAKER_00: Ecuador's Los Ciguerones, and Colombia's National Liberation Army and FARC-EP.
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  SPEAKER_00: The U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: has designated all four,
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  SPEAKER_00: and the Trump administration expanded its list of Latin American criminal groups
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  SPEAKER_00: to 21 a month ago.
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  SPEAKER_00: Argentina's government said groups are tied to drug trafficking and organized crimes.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it for tonight'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 in the morning.
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