This NPR News episode covers a high-stakes U.S.-Venezuela oil deal, deadly floods in Nepal and Tibet, rising oil and interest rates, an Ebola outbreak in Congo, a volcanic eruption in Indonesia, and the closing arguments in the Tupac Shakur murder trial. The episode underscores the global
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