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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Ronin. A day after the US Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq renewed the level four security alert for Iraq. The Associated Press is reporting Iraqi security officials say a missile hit a helipad inside the perimeter of what is one of the U.S. largest diplomatic facilities in the world. Meanwhile, at the Pentagon Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth updated reporters on what he said was American and Israeli progress destroying Iran's military.
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Soon, and very soon, all of Iran's defense companies will be destroyed. For example, as of two days ago, Iran's entire ballistic missile production capacity, every company that builds every component of those missiles has been functionally defeated, destroyed.
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Friday, President Trump said the US Military hit targets on Iran's Kharg island, but only military sites at that location were struck and the site's oil infrastructure was not hit. Since Israel and the US Launched the airstrikes on Iran, progress on President Trump's ceasefire in Gaza has backslid. NPR's Ava Batrani reports. Less humanitarian aid is now entering Gaza.
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Israel has sealed shut all but one of Gaza's crossings. That includes closure of the Rafah crossing with Egypt that had just opened last month to allow some people to return and some wounded to leave. NPR's reporter in Gaza, Anas Baba, says people are feeling squeezed, squeezed.
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Prices are high, money is tight and safety remains fragile. The sky is never quiet. Drones hum constantly, helicopters battle. And since the Iran USA war began, we have seen Iranian missiles pass through our atmosphere towards Tel Aviv.
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And according to Israel's own count, some 200 trucks a day enter Gaza now through a single crossing. That is a fraction of what the UN says is needed and what mediators say was agreed on in the ceasefire. Aya Batrawi, NPR News.
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Garbage.
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Russia is welcoming a White House decision to temporarily lift sanctions on some of its oil exports for the next 30 days. The move, which impacts Russian oil shipments already at sea, comes as the Trump administration seeks to ease pressure on global energy markets. NPR's Charles MAINNES reports.
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says U.S. and Russian interests are currently aligned in stabilizing world energy markets yet yet, Peskov adds it would take significantly more Russian oil to secure global energy costs over the long term. Meanwhile, the Kremlin's envoy to the White House, Kirill Dmitriev, went a step further. Writing on social media, Dmitriev predicted additional U.S. sanctions relief looked increasingly inevitable. Critics of the change in US Policy say it's provided the Kremlin with a windfall for its war in Ukraine. In a moment when Russia's economic prospects look grim. Charles Manes, NPR News.
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The mayor of Amsterdam said there was an attack on a Jewish school in the Netherlands capital on Saturday. It's NPR. South Korea now says that North Korea fired 10 ballistic missiles towards the Sea of Japan. And Japan's Defense Ministry said the projectiles appeared to have fallen into the water. The launches are North Korea's first since it fired two ballistic missiles January 27th. It also comes as South Korea's Prime Minister was in Washington. And President Trump said he's opening to resuming a dialogue with President Kim Jong Un. Immigration and Customs Enforcement continues buying warehouses across the country to get new detention centers in place. From member station KUEER Macy, Lipkin reports on a new ICE facility in Salt Lake city.
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ICE paid $145 million this week for a warehouse near Salt Lake City International Airport. The agency confirmed that this is part of its detention expansion. Local Democratic leaders oppose the center, and some communities around the country have successfully blocked the projects. But in 2024, Republican Gov. Spencer Cox said he would like the state to have one. ICE says their sites undergo community impact studies to make sure there's no hardship on local infrastructure. But Salt Lake City Mayor Aaron Mendenhall says a detention center would be, quote, unquote, wholly outside the scope of our available resources and zoning allowances. For NPR News, I'm Maci Lipkin in Ogden, Utah.
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Hawaii's governor has declared an emergency proclamation as the state is getting pounded by heavy rains and high winds, which have cut electric power to about 100,000 people. I'm Dan Ronan, NPR News, Washington.
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