India And Pakistan Latest, Libya Deportations, The Fed And Interest Rates

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🗓️ 8 May 2025

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Pakistan's defense minister warned that hostilities between his country and India could escalate into a nuclear confrontation, the White House plans to add Libya to the list of countries where it sends deportees, and the Federal Reserve voted to keep interest rates unchanged, for now.

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0:00.0	Pakistan says it shot down drones over some of its major cities.
0:06.8	It's the aftermath of Indian airstrikes.
0:09.2	How are two nuclear powers managing the latest confrontation in their generations-long Cold War?
0:14.6	I'm Steve Inskeep with Leila Fathol, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:21.2	President Trump's administration plans to send migrants removed from the United States to Libya.
0:26.6	The U.S. has deportation deals already with Mexico and El Salvador, so why another?
0:31.9	And the Federal Reserve says it will wait and see how the economy responds to higher tariffs,
0:37.2	but interest rates will remain
0:38.7	unchanged for now. People are feeling stress and concern, but unemployment hasn't gone up.
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1:53.8	Blasts heard over Pakistan's second largest city is the latest step in a generation's long
1:59.7	conflict in South Asia.
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