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Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dwahlisa Kowtao. Iran's foreign Minister Abbas Arakchee says the Strait of Hormuz is open, but not to tankers and ships that belong to our enemies and their allies.
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There are many tankers and ships who are passing through the Strait of Hormuz, and I can say that the strait is not closed, but it is only closed to American, Israeli, you know, ships and tankers.
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When questioned about the health of Mojtaba Khamenei, he said to ms, now there's no problem with the new supreme leader, adding the Islamic republic is rooted in society and not dependent on a single individual. About a fifth of the world's supply of liquefied natural gas, or lng, is still cut off from the world with the Strait of Hormuz still effectively blocked and piers. Julia. Julia Simon reports. U.S. lNG producers are making new deals.
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U.S. lNG company Venture Global has announced it's gotten another $8.6 billion in financing for an LNG export project in Louisiana. Venture Global's stock price has risen more than 35% since the US Israeli war with Iran began two weeks ago. The US is already the biggest LNG producer in the world, so supplying more than half of Europe's LNG while it takes time to build new LNG terminals. Energy experts tell NPR the U.S. lNG industry is seizing this moment while supplies from the Persian Gulf are offline. Julia Simon, NPR News.
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French voters will go to the polls today to elect mayors for 36,000 cities large and small across the country, with a second round of voting later this month. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports. The two round municipal elections may be a harbinger for what's to come in next year's presidential race.
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French voters are more fragmented than ever. The center has shrunk and the extremes are growing, says political analyst Jean Yves Camus.
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What will be looked at very closely is the number of cities won by both the radical left and the radical right. Both are on the rise.
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Camus says Marine Le Pen's far right National Rally Party is surging and could win three large cities in the south. The far left is aiming for a swath of cities in the north. Paris, which has been governed for the last 25 years by the mainstream left, could possibly swing to the right. Many Parisians are not happy about the eviction of cars from areas of the city to build hundreds of miles of bike lanes. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Paris.
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In Italy and in Spain, anti war protests took place on Saturday, one demonstrator told the ap, the US And Israel are destroying any form of coexistence dictated by international law. This is npr. The German philosopher Jurgen Habermas has died in Starnberg, Germany, southwest of munich. He was 96. Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas was a world renowned thinker on modernity and democracy. As NPR's Chloe Veltman reports, Jurgen Habermas
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was perhaps best known for introducing the concept of the public sphere, a space for public discourse beyond state control and therefore essential to a healthy democracy. His many books, such as the Theory of Communicative Action and Between Facts and Norms, displayed interests that were extremely wide ranging. Georgetown University President John DeGioia introduced the influential thinker before a lecture in 2012.
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Habermas has been able to go into discussions in political theory and sociology and psychology and legal theory in a dozen different disciplines and become one of the dominant voices in each one.
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Friedrich Ernst Jurgen Habermas was born in 1929 in Dusseldorf into a middle class Protestant family. A critic of Nazi atrocities, Haberma Hamas studied German philosophy and literature in Bonn and worked with Theodor Adorno in Frankfurt in the 1950s. Chloe Veltman, NPR News.
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Russia continues its attacks on Ukraine's infrastructure, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. Moscow launched more than 400 drone and nearly 70 missile strikes, killing at least four people on Saturday, according to the Associated Press. But Reuters reports two additional deaths, citing Ukrainian officials in other regions. At least 15 others were wounded, and officials in the Zap Asia region say three people are in critical condition because of Saturday strikes. This is npr.
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