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After a month and a hlaf lagjam the senate has unanimously approved a bill that will create a fund to help vitims of human trafficking. NPR' Ailsa Chang reports a federal and Abortion Funding provision got resolve with the technical change to the language. 6 weeks ago, Democrats discovered a provision topped into the bill that prevented any of the victims' fund to be used for abortions. Democrats demanded that language been taken out. Republicans refused. The results of a hard one comprimise is that the victims' fund still can be used to pay for abortions. But Democrats say this wasn't a lose, because technically there were restrictions on abortion funding now specifically reversed to taxpayer money going into the victims' fund. Congress has for years prohibited the use of taxpayer money for abortions, so this bill is no different. But Democrats would wanted a victims' fund free of any abortion retrictions ended up without one. Ailsa Chang, NPR news, the capital. Saudi Arab plans to continue to use force to stop Houthi rebles in Yemen, the country's ambassador to the US says that will happen even as they scaled back military operations shifting the focus over diplomacy. Adel al-Jubeir claims weeks of airstrikes have weakened the capability of Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. We've destroyed their air force, we've detroyed their ballistic missiles as far as we know, we've destroyed their commanded control, we've destroyed much if not most of their heavy equipment and we made it very difficult for them to move for strategic perspective. However he says he looks forward to the shift from military operations to negotiations.
European leaders are preparing to hold an emergency summit Thursday about migration. This past week's drownings in the Medditeranean sea have drawn an attention to the almost daily arrival of boats filled with Arabian and Afrian migrants landing on Europe's southern shores. Lauren Frayer reports from Spain. Some 18,00 people have drowned in the Mediterranean sea in the past week after their boats capsized collided a round ground. But tens of thousands of people have survived the journey to Europe, including Palestinian Bahaba Drown. It's so dangerous. Some men with us on that boat and he takes everything from us like money, like cloth. Like many migrants, Badrown paid a smuggler to take him accross in an overloaded boat. He'd first crossed 5 other coutnries overland from the Middle East to north Africa before climbing a board of boat in Morocco, he landed in Spain where he seeking assylum. From NPR news, I'm Lauren Frayer in Malaga, Spain.
Austria higher by the closing Dow, the Dow up 88 points stay closed at 1,838. The NASDAQ gaining 21 points to end the day at 5,035. The S&P 500 also higher gaining 10 points to end the day at 2,107. This is NPR.
In Georgia, 5 people are dead 3 others injuried after 7 vihicles including 2 tractor trailors collided today on Intrastate 16 west of Savannah. The causes are still under an investigation, that crash had the road closed for hours. Troopers in the area say the weather was clear.
New York city is planning to cut its waste by 90% by year 2030. NPR's * reports New York's mayor announce the plan will marking earthday in the nation's larggest city. The average New Yorker throws out almost 24 pounds of trash every week. It adds up with more than 6 million tons from the city each year. Mayor Bill de Blasio says it's tough and cut those numbers down. The whole system was built on a bankrupt idea, that you produce a huge amount of waste and you go send it to a landfill at another state. That is ?. Blasio admits reducing the amount of trash sent to landfills will take years if not decades. Still the city plans to create a programe to reward New Yorkers for recycling and make it easier by collecting paper, metal and plastic together. There are also plans say expand composting and reducing the number of plastic bags. * NPR news, New York.
The 2011 conviction of former San Francisco Giants baseball slugger Barry Bonds on charges of obstruction has been reversed. This's in connection with the government investigation of steroids use. The 9th US circuit court of appeals ruling Bonds rumbling answer on whether his trainer had ever given him a syringe to inject himself was not material to the government's investigation into steroids istribution. |
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