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Iran's Hard-Liners May Try To Scuttle Possibility Of Talks With U.S.

9:55am September 19, 2019

by Peter Kenyon

Iran's leaders seem to be divided over whether to talk to the U.S. next week during the U.N. General Assembly. Meetings may be especially important after Saudi oil facilities were attacked.

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France Monitors Accusations Involving Attack On Saudi Oil Facilities

7:30am September 19, 2019

France condemned the act. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Philippe Etienne, France's ambassador to the U.S., about France's role in de-escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran following the attack.

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News Brief: Saudi Oil Attack, Trudeau's Brownface, Fed Lowers Rates

6:29am September 19, 2019

Evidence mounts that Iran was behind attacks on Saudi oil facilities. Canada's prime minister apologizes for a brownface costume at 2001 party. And, the Federal Reserve lowers interest rates.

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Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau Apologizes For Brownface Costume

5:50am September 19, 2019

NPR's David Greene talks to Anna Purna Kambhampaty, one of the Time magazine reporters who first reported that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wore brownface makeup at a 2001 costume party.

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Scientists Will Deliberately Encase Their Ship In Arctic Sea Ice

5:50am September 19, 2019

by Ravenna Koenig

An ambitious Arctic expedition launches Friday. Scientists want to get their icebreaker stuck in the ice for a year so they can study the ice, ocean and atmosphere and how it's changing.

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Tokyo Electric Power Co., (TEPCO) Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata, center, and others bow before a news conference at the company's head office in Tokyo days after the nuclear disaster.

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Japanese Court Acquits Former Utility Executives Over 2011 Fukushima Disaster

3:48am September 19, 2019

by Scott Neuman

The three ex-Tokyo Electric Power Co. executives were found not guilty of professional negligence linked to the meltdown of three of the nuclear power plant's reactors after an earthquake and tsunami.

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau campaigns for the upcoming election in Fredericton, New Brunswick, September 18, 2019.

Canadian PM Trudeau Apologizes For Brownface Costume At 2001 Party

11:09pm September 18, 2019

by Richard Gonzales

The revelation of the photo comes as Trudeau is launching his reelection bid. "I'm pissed off at myself, I'm disappointed in myself," he said.

President Trump with his new national security adviser, Robert O'Brien, on Wednesday in Los Angeles.

Once A 'Rocket Ship,' National Security Council Now Avoided By Government Pros

9:34pm September 18, 2019

by Franco Ordoñez

Career foreign policy professionals tell NPR they increasingly fear that joining the NSC, which is part of the White House, will taint them as political operatives.

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Saudi Arabia's military displays what it says is wreckage from drones and cruise missiles used to attack Saudi Aramco oil facilities. A Saudi spokesman says the weapons did not come from Yemen, as a rebel group has claimed, but from Iran.

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Saudi Arabia Says Iran 'Unquestionably Sponsored' Attack On Oil Facilities

7:22pm September 18, 2019

by Bill Chappell

"This attack did not originate from Yemen despite Iran's best efforts to appear so," said Saudi Col. Turki al-Malki. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called it an "act of war" against the kingdom.

Wreckage described by Saudi defense officials as coming from the airstrikes on the Abqaiq oil refinery.

Attacks On Saudi Oil Facilities Pose Quandary For Trump Administration

6:49pm September 18, 2019

by David Welna

Military and intelligence officials say it looks like Iran launched the airstrikes but the U.S. has been slow to respond.