This NPR News segment covers a series of international developments, including new U.S. sanctions targeting Chinese and Hong Kong entities for aiding Iran’s weapons programs, a temporary ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war coinciding with Russia’s Victory Day, a fatal runway incident at D
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