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Iranian state media says Pakistan's powerful interior minister made an unannounced visit to Iran.

As NPR's Dia Hadid reports, the visit comes amid a statement between Iran and the United States on ending the latest Mid-East war.

Iranian state-backed media reports that the Pakistani Interior Minister,

Mohsen Nakhvi, met with his counterpart in Tehran, Eskandar Momeni,

but offered no further detail.

Nakhvi has been a key interlocutor in Pakistan's efforts to mediate and enter the war,

which began when the US and

Israel began striking Iran in late February. While a ceasefire has held for weeks, both Iran and the

US are blockading the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow sea route that funnels about a fifth of the world's

oil and gas and about a third of the world's globally traded fertilizer. That's wreaked havoc across the

globe, contributing to increasing gas prices and fertilizer shortages. De Hadid, NPR News. Following the recent

Supreme Court decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act, voters from across the country are gathering

in Alabama this weekend to rally in support of the

1965 law. Elise Gregg of the Gulf State Newsroom has more. The National Day of Action for

Voting Rights began with prayer and worship at the historical tabernacle Baptist Church in Selma.

From the pulpit, Congresswoman Terry Soul, representing Alabama's 7th District,

called the fight for voting rights not just a political movement, but a moral one.

It was rooted in the belief that every child of God deserves dignity, equality, and a voice

in this democracy. And today, that moral witness is indeed needed again.

The service was followed by a march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where in 1965,

peaceful voting rights marchers were violently attacked by police and state troopers.

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