A Deadly Blast in Pakistan, Ukraine Counteroffensive, Trucking Firm Yellow Folds

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🗓️ 31 July 2023

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A bombing kills dozens on Pakistan's border with Afghanistan. Ukraine retakes a small village from Russia. And the trucking company Yellow shuts down after receiving a $700 million government loan.

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0:00.0	Dozens were killed in a bombing in Pakistan near the Afghanistan border.
0:06.4	The attack carried the hallmarks of the violent extremist group that calls itself the Islamic
0:10.6	State, or the fault lines in Afghanistan spreading to its neighbor.
0:14.1	Amir Martinez, with Leyla Faddle, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:21.1	Ukrainian President Volotomir Zelensky is talking up a small victory in the country's southern
0:25.4	region.
0:26.4	Officials there hope it's a breakthrough in what's been a grueling counteroffensive against
0:29.8	Russia.
0:30.8	And one of the country's biggest and oldest trucking firms is collapsing, taking 30,000
0:35.7	jobs down with it.
0:36.7	This is the largest trucking bankruptcy in the history of the United States.
0:40.6	The company Yellow is declaring bankruptcy and that's after it got a $700 million pandemic
0:45.9	loan from the government.
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1:19.0	A suicide bombing at a political rally near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan has killed dozens
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