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NPR News: 08-16-2025 7PM EDT

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🗓️ 16 August 2025

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0:00.0

There's a lot of news happening.

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You want to understand it better, but let's be honest, you don't want it to be your entire life either.

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Well, that's sort of like our show, here and now anytime.

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Every weekday on our podcast, we talk to people all over the country about everything from political analysis to climate resilience, video games.

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Check out Here and now anytime, a daily

0:21.6

podcast from NPR and WBUR. Live from NPR News, I'm Janine Hurst. The European Union's top diplomat

0:29.7

says Russia has no intention of ending its war on Ukraine anytime soon. Terry Schultz reports on

0:37.1

the reaction of European leaders to yesterday's summit

0:40.1

between President Trump and Putin. After the summit failed to reach any agreements, EU foreign policy

0:46.7

chief Kayakalas says Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to drag out negotiations and hopes he gets away

0:53.1

with it. President Trump called a handful of

0:55.8

European leaders following the summit. They issued a statement welcoming Trump's meeting Monday

1:00.8

with Ukrainian President Zelensky at the White House, pledging continued unwavering support for Ukraine.

1:06.9

But the statement does not address the fact that despite Trump saying before the summit, that an

1:11.5

immediate ceasefire is the priority, as the Europeans wish, then he posted on social media that

1:17.3

instead a full peace deal should be the goal, a position more aligned with Putin. For NPR News,

1:23.6

I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels. Israel is moving ahead with a plan to militarily occupy all of Gaza.

1:31.4

In Pira Zia Batrawe reports on airstrikes and demolitions that have destroyed hundreds of homes in Gaza's

1:37.7

city this week alone. An arm of Israel's defense ministry, known as Kogat, says it's preparing to move Gaza's population

1:45.4

to the south and that after more than two months of Israeli blockade on shelter supplies,

1:50.3

it will begin allowing tents from UN agencies and aid groups to enter Gaza starting Sunday

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