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In Washington, I'm Giles Snyder. Russia is accusing Ukraine of drone strikes that sparked a fire at a nuclear plant in Russia's Kursk region. Russia says a transformer at the plant was damaged by debris after the drone was shot down. Russia claiming to have shot down 95 Ukrainian drones overnight. As Ukraine marks 34 years of independence from the former Soviet Union, Ukrainian refugees in North Carolina marked independence. This weekend they held a gathering and Raleigh Angelina Shostak was there.
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We just hope that this aid which we have, this help which we have from America, it will continue, it will increase and eventually we will win the war.
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The Pacific Northwest has been experiencing sky high temperatures over the past few days, and that's creating dangerous conditions for local residents. From Oregon Public Broadcasting, Joni Odenland reports.
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Portland, Oregon, has seen triple digit heat for the past two days, while Seattle has reached the mid-90s. The extreme heat is expected to last until Tuesday. On Friday alone, Portland saw more than 20 emergency calls for people suffering from heat exhaustion. One of them was David Loftus, who passed out while competing in a relay race and woke up in the back of an ambulance.
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They stuffed ice packs under my arms and on my groin, and by the time we got to the hospital, the ice was all melted and the packs were warm.
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Local officials have worked to provide air conditioning units to those in need. Still, 25% of renters in Portland have no air conditioning at home. For NPR News, I'm Joni Odenland in Portland, Oregon.
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Amid that heat wave in the Pacific Northwest, fire crews in north Northern California have been working this weekend to corral the picket fire in Napa County. It's burned more than 6,000 acres and led evacuations in rural communities. Postal services from several countries around Europe are suspending the shipment of many packages to the United States. Officials say they lack clarity over new import duties being posed by the US starting on August 29. And Britain's Royal Mail has become the latest service to pause deliveries. Here's Vicki Barker reporting from London.
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Last month, President Trump signed an executive order ending tax exemptions on low value imports. Gifts worth less than $100 will remain duty free, but starting August 29, all international shipments of any value must pay the same tariffs as their country of origin. There's confusion, though, over just how the duties are to be collected and by whom. Now Britain's Royal Mail says it will suspend its business delivery service starting Tuesday, just the Foreign Postal Service to pause shipments to the U.S. in a statement, Royal Mail adds it hopes to have a new system in place by the time the new rules take effect. For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London.
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And you're listening to NPR news. Illinois Democratic Governor J.B. pritzker says President Trump is attempting to manufacture a crisis. He issued a statement after the Washington Post reported this weekend that the Pentagon has been planning a military deployment to Chicag. Such a deployment would mark an expansion of Trump's use of the military in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. Trump says he's cracking down on crime, but Chicago's mayor says crime is down this year. State media and North Korea say leader Kim Jong Un has supervised the test firing of two types of new air defense missiles. The launches were carried out this weekend, coinciding with South Korean President Li Ji Myongse. Summit with Japan's Prime Minister Lee is to meet with President Trump in Washington tomorrow. New report says the entire the Antarctic ice sheet is at risk of collapse because of rising sea levels.
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Scott Mayman reports in a report for the Nature publication. The changes have been witnessed by a variety of experts. One of them is Professor Jan Strugnall from Australia's James Cook University, who says hundreds of millions of people in coastal communities will be impacted globally.
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This includes around 750 million people live in low elevation coastal zones.
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Other, more conservative estimates put that number closer to 200 million. But still, Professor Strugnall says melting Antarctic ice can trigger worldwide events.
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And what happens in Antarctica really doesn't stay there.
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She says global action is needed now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. For NPR News, I'm Scott Maiman in Canberra, Australia.
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And I'm Jael Snyder. This is NPR News.
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