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Live from NPR News, I'm Janine Hurst. The European Union is hailing its new trade agreement with President Trump as a good deal,

even though it will mean 15% tariffs on EU exports to the U.S.

Terry Schultz has more.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen acknowledges she didn't succeed in getting President

Trump to entirely drop the plan to add import duties on European products, but only to cut his

original threat in half.

15% is not to be underestimated, but it is the best we could get.

Von der Leyen says there will be some zero tariff items, among them aircraft, some agricultural products,

and critical raw materials. Other parts of the deal, we will replace Russian gas and oil by

significant purchases of U.S. LNG oil and nuclear fuels. Vondalayan says while tariffs will

still be a challenge for some, at least now the destabilizing

uncertainty is over. For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels.

Israel's military has begun a limited pause and fighting in three populated areas of Gaza for

10 hours a day as part of measures including food airdrops, as concerns

grow over surging hunger.

Empires Eleanor Beersley was in Gaza today with a group of journalists on a visit organized

by the Israeli military, which showed aid it says, is from the UN.

I am standing in a vast blacktop parking lot with probably millions of tons of aid rotting in

the sun.

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