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Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman.

The air attacks on Iran are continuing at this hour.

Flames were rising above an oil storage facility in Tehran Saturday following a strike

by Israeli forces.

President Trump says the fighting is going well, and the administration is ahead of its

schools.

Speaking with reporters on board Air Force One, Trump said most of Iran's leadership

has now been killed.

So we got rid of the one leadership, and we got rid of the second level of leadership.

Now there are that third or fourth level of leadership, and they have leaders right

now that nobody even knows who they are.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meanwhile says there will be many surprises

for the next phase of the weak old war.

The Lebanese government says it wants to crack down on the Iran-backed militant group

Hezbollah and restore power back to its own army.

Israel began a ramped-up military campaign against Hezbollah in South Lebanon after it

launched rockets into northern Israel last week.

Lebanese officials say about 300 people have been killed in Israeli strikes since the

war in Iran began and says more than 100,000 displaced people are living in shelters.

Emperes Hadil al-Shalchi reports from Beirut.

In a rare move, Justice Minister Hayden Nasad has proposed to charge the leader of the

militant group Hezbollah with, quote, dragging Lebanon into war and tampering with security.

That's according to a Lebanese government official who was not authorized to speak to

the media.

While the Lebanese cabinet did not take any action, this is the sharpest review, a Lebanese

member of government has made against Hezbollah.

Last week, the government banned all Hezbollah military activity and issued arrest warrants

for the members who launched rockets into Israel.

Lebanon's leaders say they are trying to rein in Hezbollah and make clear that the government

speaks for the country.

Hadil al-Shalchi, NPR News, Beirut.

New high-level trade talks between the U.S. and Canada took place this week.

They are the first such talks since negotiations were called off in October by President Trump.

As Dan Carpenshuk reports, Ottawa's minister for U.S. Canada trade was in Washington on Friday

for a meeting with administration officials.

When Canada's trade minister Dominic Leblanc emerged from the meeting with the U.S.

trade representative Jameson Greer, his only comment was, quote, have a good weekend.

Leblanc's office, however, described the talks as constructive and substantive.

The U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement is up for re-negotiations, and harsh U.S. tariffs

on Canadian steel, aluminum, auto, softwood lumber, and copper will likely be dealt with

in the agreement's review.

But Greer has said that any new deal with Canada will include tariffs, and let's say that

the face-to-face talks are a positive step since Washington must now say exactly what

it wants from new trade negotiations, while Ottawa will likely want to preserve as much

of the old free trade agreement as possible since its shielded Canada for most of Trump's

broader tariffs.

For NPR News, I'm Dan Carpenshuk in Toronto.

I'm Dale Willman, and you're listening to NPR News.

The Broadway League says nearly 20% of theater tickets are being snapped up by people attending

musicals and plays on their own.

That's double what it was a couple of years ago.

As NPR's Chloe Veltman reports, a theater operator is now taking steps to actively encourage

audience members to fly solo.

60 people signed up for live theater operator ATG Entertainment's inaugural solo seats event

in San Francisco recently.

The ticket included a discounted orchestra seat for the Broadway musical The Notebook on

tour, a pre-show mixer with other solo seats and a free drink.

There to go, Maria Sikada says this is her first time seeing a live show on her own.

I kind of love the idea of going to a show like how you would see a movie by yourself.

Social psychologist Bella DiPolo says solo leisure is booming, owing to rising economic

independence and longer life expectancies.

ATG says it plans to expand solo seats nationwide.

Chloe Veltman MP on news.

All these ten people, including two children, were killed Saturday in a Russian missile attack

that hit a five-story building in the Ukrainian city of Harkiv.

Officials say 16 other people were injured.

Emergency workers are continuing to move through the rubble, looking for any possible survivors.

Ukraine's president says Russia used 29 missiles and 480 drones in their latest attack.

At least 25 people are dead after heavy rains cause massive flooding in Nairobi, Kenya this

week.

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