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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm. President Biden for the first time is allowing

Ukraine to fire U.S. made long-range missiles into Russia. A U.S. official tells NPR the change

in policy was spurred by North Korean

troops sent to help Russia in its war against Ukraine. NPR's Tom Bowman has more.

The missiles are called a tackams and have a range of some 190 miles. Ukrainian officials

and their supporters in the U.S. have long pushed for their use.

But the Biden administration refused, fearing Russian escalation.

Now with thousands of North Korean troops fighting Ukrainian forces,

who have seized portions of the Kersk region of Russia,

the administration has allowed the attackers to strike targets there.

The policy change could lead other countries, especially Britain, to allow their long-range missiles to be used as well. Tom Bowman, NPR News.

The head of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party says the chief spokesman for the militant group

Hezbollah was killed in an Israeli a air strike today while he was visiting the party's offices

in central Beirut. It was the latest targeted tilling of a senior Hezbollah official. The attack came

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