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Three people died today in a crush trying to get bread from the last remaining bakery in central and southern Gaza.

All bakeries there shut down for several days this week because they'd

run out of flour. The UN and aid agencies say Israel needs to allow much more food, flour, and fuel

into Gaza. NPR's IApetrawe has more. People have nowhere else to turn to for food except for a few

hot kitchens run by charities, but that can't feed the two million

people that are in southern and central Gaza. So when this bakery opened, there was a crush of

thousands of people trying to get a few lows of the subsidized bread, because there's no guarantee

that this bakery will open again tomorrow. And what we heard from health officials is that a woman and two

teenage girls died in this crush of a crowd trying to get bread. Bread is the lifeline of people in

Gaza. It is how they have survived on just one meal a day for more than a year of war.

NPR's Ayur Patrawe. The newly installed president of the European Council, the EU institution that defines the bloc's political direction, is stressing the need for dialogue with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. As Alison Roberts reports, Portugal's former Prime Minister is urging Europeans to listen to what the new president has to say. In an interview with Portugal's public newspaper, Antonio Costa argued that security and trade are inseparable in U.S. Europe ties.

While not saying whether he expects Trump to impose tariffs on Europe,

he warned that at a time of actual war, opening a trade war would pour fuel on the fire. It is in the

US's interest not to weaken Europe's economy, he argued, saying trade talks with the US will

be tough but must succeed. Costa was tapped to replace Belgium's Charles Michel as council president.

He's known as a bridge builder who has had productive relationships

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