This NPR News segment covers breaking international developments, including Iran's retaliatory drone and missile attacks on Bahrain and Kuwait following U.S. airstrikes, a devastating earthquake in Venezuela with over 1,400 dead and tens of thousands missing, and domestic U.S. political t
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