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🗓️ 27 June 2025
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0:00.0 | Start the day's other headlines with a major development towards ending a decades-long conflict. |
0:05.0 | The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda signed a peace agreement in Washington today. |
0:10.0 | The Trump administration mediated the deal. |
0:13.0 | The African nation's top diplomats put pen to paper at the State Department alongside Secretary Marco Rubio. |
0:19.0 | Experts doubt it will end the fighting right away, but Rubio hailed it as an important |
0:24.6 | first step toward peace. |
0:26.9 | For all the things that make life worth living, those things become impossible when there's |
0:30.9 | war and when there's conflict. |
0:32.4 | So we're grateful to have played the role we've played. |
0:34.7 | We acknowledge and recognize there's still more work to be done. |
0:38.2 | Today's agreement follows decades of conflict that has its roots in Rwanda's 1994 genocide. |
0:44.5 | It's been driven by fighting between two ethnic groups, among other factors. |
0:48.9 | Analysts say millions have lost their lives. The deal also comes as the U.S. competes with China |
0:53.9 | for influence in Africa |
0:56.0 | and access to minerals that are critical for much of the world's technology. In Pakistan, |
1:01.5 | a surprise flood swept away dozens of tourists as they picnicked along a river, killing |
1:06.7 | at least eight people. It happened in Pakistan's northwest Swath Valley. |
1:11.3 | The annual monsoon season begins in July, but much of the country has been hit with heavy |
1:16.0 | rain all week. |
1:22.1 | Local residents looked on at the still swollen river as nearly a hundred rescuers searched |
1:27.0 | for the missing. |
1:28.1 | At least 58 people have been rescued so far. |
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