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Iran has launched drone and missile attacks on Bahrain
and Kuwait in response to American airstrikes on the Islamic Republic.
NPR's Ruth Sherlock reports the attacks come as the U.S.
And Iran threaten to stop negotiations to end the ongoing war.
Despite the memorandum of understanding to end the fighting, the US and Iran are trading increasing fire.
The US Military Central Command said it struck military targets inside Iran after Iran attacked
a foreign ship carrying oil to Qatar in the Strait of Hormuz.
The flashpoint is disagreement over who will control the strait.
Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard claimed responsibility for drone and missile attacks on Bahrain and Kuwait,
which both host US military bases.
It warned, if US strikes continue, of, quote, a complete halt to ongoing negotiations.
President Trump took to Truth Social with his own threat to attack militarily with full force.
If that happens, he wrote, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist.
Ruth Sherlock, NPR News, Beirut.
The sound of rescue teams pulling an 11-year-old boy alive after three days trapped
in the rubble of a collapsed building in northern Venezuela on Saturday.
The death toll has climbed to more than 1,400 after powerful earthquakes struck the region four days ago.
NPR's Ada Peralta reports from near the epicenter of the quakes.
Acting President Delce Rodriguez has militarized the state of La Guaira, just north of the capital, Caracas.