Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Christian Wright. The U.S. and Iran are preparing for high-level talks, expected to start in Pakistan tomorrow. A two-week ceasefire reached earlier this week has been fragile, with Israeli strikes in Lebanon continuing. And today, Kuwait accuses Iran of launching drone attacks despite the ceasefire.

Vice President Vance is traveling to Islamabad to lead the U.S. delegation.

War between the U.S., Israel, and Iran has been going on for more than five weeks.

NPR's D. Parvas went to the border of Turkey and Iran to hear what Iranians have to say about the ceasefire.

The first two days of the ceasefire have been shaky with strikes of varying severity

happening in Lebanon, Iran, Israel and the Gulf Arab states.

The Iranians, I spoke to the border, didn't want to be named fearing reprisal upon their return,

and none of them believed that the temporary truce would hold.

The position of the two-tariff tied in khaned them are not close. and none of them believed that the temporary truce would hold. The positions they've stated are too far apart from each other, said one man.

After two weeks, it's highly likely that there will be worse, said a 30-year-old from Tehran.

D. Paraz, NPR News, Vaughan, Turkey.

EPA administrator Lee Zeldin delivered the keynote speech at a conference for those who say climate change is not a problem.

He championed the Trump administration's efforts to roll back climate policies, as NPR's

Lauren Summer reports. Zeldin spoke at a conference of the Heartland Institute, a free market group that denies

that humans are contributing to climate change. Scientific research shows that burning fossil fuels

has increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to the highest level in human history. That

traps heat, raising temperatures and making weather events like hurricanes more extreme. Zeldon

celebrated the EPA's decision to stop

regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant. He says that policy was government overreach and focused

too much on the worst-case scenarios. Lauren Summer, NPR News. Researchers say climate change has

pushed a beloved species toward extinction. The Emperor Penguin is now listed as endangered.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature made the declaration. Emperor penguins in Antarctica

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