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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Trump's touting a breakthrough on trade with the UK. He says the final details of an agreement will be drafted in the coming weeks.
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer joined Trump by speakerphone as Trump announced the deal would give U.S. companies better market access for beef, ethanol, machinery, industrial products, among others. Meanwhile, Trump predicts a tariffs deal is coming between the U.S. and China, the world's two biggest economies. Right now, you can't get any higher. It's at 145. So we know it's coming down.
I think we're going to have a very good relationship. You know, I always got along very well with President Xi. So far, China's been resisting Trump's pressure. The U.S. and China are preparing for high-level talks in Switzerland this weekend.
There have been fresh attacks today between nuclear arm rivals Pakistan and India. Pakistan's army spokesman says his country shot down a dozen Indian military drones that had killed a civilian and injured four Pakistani soldiers. NPR's Omkar Karandeka reports this comes after India's most significant missile attacks on Pakistan in more than 50 years. Spokesperson Ahmad Sharif says the drones were hovering over major cities, including Rawalpindi, the location of the Pakistani army headquarters. This is it.
The latest accusations come after India struck multiple targets across Pakistan on Tuesday in what it says is retaliation for a militant attack in late April where gunmen killed 26 people. Pakistan denies any connection to that attack and says it will defend itself. Omkar Khandekar, NPR News, Mumbai.
At the Vatican, a two-thirds majority vote remains elusive. No one candidate has yet secured enough backing from cardinals to succeed the late Pope Francis.
evident twice this morning when the chimney of the Sistine Chapel billowed more black smoke. And so voting continues. NPR's Sarah Ventry is in St. Peter's Square. We are now in the afternoon of the second day of the conclave, where 133 cardinal electors will decide who among them is the next pope. In the meantime, there are thousands of people milling around St. Peter's Square, all anxiously awaiting smoke.
And there is just kind of a mood of excitement and a little bit of electricity in the crowd. Whether people are religious or not, whether they're Catholic or not, everyone I've spoken to is excited to be here for this historical moment. That's NPR's Sarah Ventry reporting.
Cardinals, 133 of them are sequestered from the outside world. They're trying to find a candidate who can lead the 2,000-year-old church in an era when many, especially young people, are questioning the Vatican's credibility. U.S. stocks are trading higher this hour. The Dow Jones Industrial Average up 551 points, or 1.3%. This is NPR News.
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