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  • Indiana resident reflects on impact of clean air rules
    (5 Jun 2025)
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    ASSOCIATED PRESS
    Evansville, Indiana - 9 April 2025
    1. Various of Kirt Ethridge doing his daughter’s hair
    ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
    2. SOUNDBITE (English) Kirt Ethridge, resident:
    "So much of parenting is trying to make the world as secure and livable as possible for your kids. And I feel like I'm losing the ability to do that on the front of being able to breathe. And it's frustrating to me because until recently it felt like we were going in a very positive direction.”
    3. Various of Kirt Ethridge and his daughter in their home
    ++COVERED++
    4. SOUNDBITE (English) Kirt Ethridge, resident:
    "Our area is surrounded by these power plants and they just put off a ton of pollution.”
    ASSOCIATED PRESS
    Newburgh, Indiana - 8 April 2025
    5. Aerial of the Warrick Power Plant
    ASSOCIATED PRESS
    Rockport, Indiana - 9 April 2025
    6. Aerial of the Rockport Power Plant
    ASSOCIATED PRESS
    Princeton, Indiana - 10 April 2025
    7. Aerial of the Gibson Power Plant
    ANNOTATION: The Environmental Protection Agency is working to reverse regulations that limit pollution from coal-fired power plants.
    8. Various of the Gibson Power Plant operating
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    ASSOCIATED PRESS
    Olney, Illinois - 10 April 2025
    9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Norma Kreilein, pediatrician:
    "Pollution makes people sick. Dismantling existing regulations that already do not limit the accumulation and location of pollution is only going to expose unsuspecting children, mothers and parents to more illness.”
    ASSOCIATED PRESS
    Evansville, Indiana - 10 April 2025
    10. Various of the Ethridge family walking
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    Evansville, Indiana - 9 April 2025
    11. SOUNDBITE (English) Kirt Ethridge, resident:
    "She doesn't handle respiratory illnesses well, even things that are more mild. She does require a nebulizer whenever she has a cold, the flu, anything like that. I want to raise my kids in Evansville, I don't want to raise my kids in a bowl of pollution.”
    ASSOCIATED PRESS
    Evansville, Indiana - 10 April 2025
    12. Wide of Ethridge kids playing at a park
    13. Various of Eliza Ethridge showing her penguin-shaped nebulizer
    14. Wide of Eliza and Kirt Ethridge putting away her nebulizer UPSOUND (English) "Put him away until next time? Until next time I am sick.”
    STORYLINE:
    The Environmental Protection Agency under President Donald Trump has served notice it wants to back away from at least 30 major rules that seek to protect air and water and reduce emissions that cause climate change.
    Rolling back these rules would mean millions more tons of pollutants such as smog, mercury and lead — and especially more tiny airborne particles that can lodge in lungs and cause myriad health problems. It would also mean higher emissions of the greenhouse gases driving Earth's warming to deadly levels.
    A visit to Evansville, Indiana, helps show how EPA regulations have made a difference.
    The city of about 115,000 lies where the state's southwest tip ... [truncated]
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  • AP explains impact of potential EPA rule cuts
    (5 Jun 2025)
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    ++PART MUTE++
    ASSOCIATED PRESS
    ARCHIVE: Cincinnati, Ohio - 14 February 2023
    1. Detail of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sign outside a lab
    ASSOCIATED PRESS
    ARCHIVE: Cheshire, Ohio - 14 April 2025
    2. Various of the Gavin Power Plant operating
    3. Aerial of the Gavin Power Plant ++MUTE++
    ASSOCIATED PRESS
    ARCHIVE: Point Pleasant, West Virginia - 14 April 2025
    4. Wide of Gavin Power Plant operating near home
    ASSOCIATED PRESS
    New York - 13 May 2025
    5. SOUNDBITE (English) Melina Walling, The Associated Press:
    "The Environmental Protection Agency recently announced plans to roll back at least 30 rules that protect air and water quality. These regulations also reduce greenhouse gas emissions, for example, from coal plants. So, what is the impact of so much change? The Associated Press analyzed what these mandates intend to accomplish. We looked at the scientific, economic and health data behind them. We also talked with dozens of experts.”
    ASSOCIATED PRESS
    Newburgh, Indiana - 08 April 2025
    6. Closeup of the Warrick Power Plant operating
    7. Aerial of the Warrick Power Plant ++MUTE++
    ASSOCIATED PRESS
    ARCHIVE: Lahore, Pakistan - 14 November 2024
    8. Aerial of smog over city ++MUTE++
    9. Wide of people on motorbikes with faces covered due to pollution
    ASSOCIATED PRESS
    New York - 13 May 2025
    10. SOUNDBITE (English) Melina Walling, The Associated Press:
    "What we found is that these rules are projected to save over 30,000 lives a year around the world – along with at least $275 billion a year. The savings, in lives and money, are mostly a result of fewer people getting sick from pollution. Savings come from efficiencies, like cars that get high gas mileage or are electric. To see people who could be impacted, we visited southwest Indiana. It’s there that heavy industry and multiple coal-fired power plants historically dirtied the environment. These environmental regulations improved lives.”
    ASSOCIATED PRESS
    ARCHIVE: London, Ohio - 8 March 2024
    11. Various of electric car charging at station
    ASSOCIATED PRESS
    Evansville, Indiana - 11 April 2025
    12. Aerial of Evansville ++MUTE++
    13. Wide of cars driving in downtown Evansville
    14. Wide of barges near river downtown
    ASSOCIATED PRESS
    Olney, Illinois - 10 April 2025
    15. Various of Dr. Norma Kreilein
    16. SOUNDBITE (English) Norma Kreilein, pediatrician:
    "I have found that a large contributor to the health problems that people have is the accumulation of things they have… they have no control over, but our government and our leaders potentially do.”
    ASSOCIATED PRESS
    Mount Carmel, Illinois - 10 April 2025
    17. Various of the Gibson Power Plant operating
    ASSOCIATED PRESS
    Princeton, Indiana - 10 April 2025
    18. Various aerial of a coal pit and bulldozer operating ++MUTE++
    ASSOCIATED PRESS
    Rockport, Indiana - 11 April 2025
    19. Aerial of town and Rockport Power Plant in background ++MUTE++
    20. Close-up of cooling tower at Rockport Power Plant operating
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  • Indonesia arrests foreign nationals in Bali on drugs charges that could carry death penalty
    (5 Jun 2025)
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    Denpasar, Bali - 5 June 2025
    1. Indian and an Australian suspect entered the room to join the other suspects
    2. Suspects arrested in the narcotics case
    3. Foreign suspect removed their mask
    4. Another foreign suspect bowed their head
    5. Indian (left) and Australian suspect covering their faces with their hands (right)
    6. Close-up of Australian suspect covering their face with their hands
    7. Logo/sign of the Bali Provincial Narcotics Agency
    8. Building of the Bali Provincial Narcotics Agency
    9. Officers arranging evidence on the table
    10. Evidence of marijuana, THC, and hashish on the table
    11. Close-up of marijuana in a plastic bag
    12. Hashish and THC in bottles and cans
    13. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Sinar Subawa, Head of Narcotics Eradication at the Bali Provincial Narcotics Agency:
    "Customs officers at Ngurah Rai International Airport, Bali, apprehended an Indian national, initialled HV. Inside HV's green Adidas travel bag, narcotics were found."
    14. Wide of the press conference
    15. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Sinar Subawa, Head of Narcotics Eradication at the Bali Provincial Narcotics Agency:
    "Furthermore, narcotics officers conducted further investigation and arrested a man (Australian) named PR. During a search of the house occupied by PR, officers found evidence in the form of hashish belonging to suspect PR, which was purchased through the Telegram application."
    16, Various of officer holding evidence, hashish in plastic sheet
    17. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Sinar Subawa, Head of Narcotics Eradication at the Bali Provincial Narcotics Agency:
    "Suspect PR is charged under Article 11, paragraph 1 of Law No. 35 of 2009 concerning narcotics, with the threat of the death penalty, life imprisonment, or a minimum of 4 years and a maximum of 12 years in prison."
    18. Hands cuffed
    19. Suspects HV and PR walk out of the press room and are escorted by officers back to the detention area
    STORYLINE:
    Indonesian authorities on the tourist island of Bali announced on Thursday the arrests of several foreign nationals, including an Australian, an Indian and an American, on suspicion of possessing narcotics - charges that could carry the death penalty.
    Customs officers arrested an Indian national who was carrying a duffel bag in the customs and excise inspection area on May 29. The officers found narcotic-related items in his belongings, authorities said.
    Following up on the interrogation, officers from the Bali Narcotics Agency arrested an Australian man who has been visiting Bali since 1988. During a search of a house where he stayed, officers found some narcotics in the form of hashish, a cannabis concentrate product that had been bought over the Telegram messaging app.
    Authorities said the hashish was shipped from Los Angeles and Philippines before arriving in Bali where officers seized 191 grams (6.7 ounces) of hashish, along with some candies consisting of tetrahydrocannabinol, and 488 gram... [truncated]
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  • Germany to enlarge army by some 50-thousand troops, says Defense Minister Pistorius
    (5 Jun 2025)
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    Brussels, Belgium - 5 June 2025
    1. Wide of German Defense minister, Boris Pistorius arriving for statement
    2. SOUNDBITE (German) Boris Pistorius, German Defense minister:
    “For Germany that means, we traditionally take on – and it’s not going to be different this time - the second largest package of capabilities within NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). We will – and we have stressed that repeatedly – fulfil our responsibilities as the strongest economy in Europe. Of course, I am not giving any details for one simple reason – I’d prefer potential aggressors not to get to look into my cards.”
    3. Mid of camera operator
    4. SOUNDBITE (German) Boris Pistorius, German Defense minister:
    “This is just a rough estimate, but we think we will need 50,000 to 60,000 more soldiers in the army than there are now. At the same time, we will of course have to ask whether the new military service will be enough over the next couple of years. We expect that synchronous with the build up of the capacities - and I can only repeat that a draft system is useless right now, because we don’t have the needed capacities, neither in the barracks nor in training. That’s why we need to increase these capacities – until then it’s volunteers.”
    5. Close of flags
    STORYLINE:
    Defense Minister, Boris Pistorius said on Thursday that Germany aims to will enlarge the country’s army by some 50-thousand to 60-thousand troops.
    “We expect that synchronous with the build up of the capacities - and I can only repeat that a draft system is useless right now, because we don’t have the needed capacities, neither in the barracks nor in training. That’s why we need to increase these capacities – until then it’s volunteers,” he told reporters in Brussels, Belgium.
    It comes as NATO Defense ministers are set to approve purchasing targets for stocking up on weapons and military equipment to better defend Europe, the Arctic and the North Atlantic, as part of a U.S. push to ramp up security spending.
    The “capability targets” lay out goals for each of the 32 nations to purchase priority equipment like air defense systems, long-range missiles, artillery, ammunition, drones and “strategic enablers” such as air-to-air refueling, heavy air transport and logistics.
    Each nation's plan is classified, so details are scarce.
    Spurred on by their own security concerns, European allies and Canada have already been ramping up military spending, including arms and ammunition purchases, since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
    At the same time, some allies balk at U.S. demands to invest 5% of their gross domestic product in defense — 3.5% on core military spending and 1.5% on the roads, bridges, airfields and sea ports needed to deploy armies more quickly — when they have already struggled to grow their budgets to 2% of GDP.
    The new targets are assigned by NATO based on a blueprint agreed upon in 2023 — the mil... [truncated]
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  • Palestinians gather for funerals of at least 10 killed in overnight strikes on Khan Younis
    (5 Jun 2025)
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    Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip - 5 June 2025
    1. Various of woman crying
    2. Various of people carrying bodies of people who were killed in Israeli airstrike
    3. Various of people mourning their killed relatives
    4. Various of boys crying
    5. Various of people carrying bodies and placing them on the ground
    6. Various of people praying for victims
    7. Various of people carrying bodies and leaving hospital to bury them
    STORYLINE:
    At least 10 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza's southern city Khan Younis overnight into Thursday, according to Nasser Hospital, which received the bodies.
    It was not immediately clear if the strikes were related to the recovery mission overnight of the bodies of two hostages.
    In Gaza City, three local reporters were killed and six people were wounded in a strike on the courtyard of the al-Ahli Hospital, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
    It did not immediately identify the journalists or say which outlets they worked for.
    The Israeli military said it was looking into reports on the strike at al-Ahli.
    The army says it only targets militants and blames civilian deaths on Hamas because it is embedded in populated areas.
    Over 180 journalists and media workers have been killed since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, the vast majority of them in Gaza, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists.
    Israel has said many of those killed in its strikes were militants posing as reporters.
    Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in the Oct. 7 attack and abducted 251 hostages.
    They are still holding 56 hostages, around a third of them believed to be alive, after most of the rest were released in ceasefire agreements or other deals.
    Israeli forces have rescued eight living hostages from Gaza and recovered dozens of bodies.
    Israel’s military campaign has killed more than 54,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not say how many of the dead were civilians or combatants.
    The offensive has destroyed large parts of Gaza and displaced around 90% of its population of roughly 2 million Palestinians.
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  • Hegseth says many countries appear on track to agree to Trump's 5% NATO spend demand
    (5 Jun 2025)
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    Brussels, Belgium - 5 June 2025
    1. US Secretary of Defence, Pete Hegseth arriving for briefing
    2. SOUNDBITE (English) Pete Hegseth, U.S. Defense Secretary:
    "From France, to Germany, to the Baltics, to the Nordic countries, to Poland, to Greece, to Hungary, to so many more, the commitment is there. Five percent on defense spending. When you consider the threats that we face, the urgency in the world, it's critical. We don't need more flags. We need more fighting formations. We don't need more conferences. We need more capabilities, hard power."
    3. Mid of journalist asking question
    4. SOUNDBITE (English) Pete Hegseth, U.S. Defense Secretary:
    "It was an alliance that was sleepwalking to irrelevance and President Trump in his first term said, 'you need to step up and spend more.' And he has in this term done the same, and what I saw in there were countries prepared to step-up to push the limits of what they can do - that's a good thing, that's friends helping friends."
    5. Mid of reporting asking a question
    6. SOUNDBITE (English) Pete Hegseth, U.S. Defense Secretary:
    "America can't be everywhere all the time, nor should we be and so there are reasons why we have troops in certain places and we respect and understand that. It was also prudent that we review that force posture in real time alongside our allies and partners to make sure it's right size, so I don't want to get ahead of the president's decision on that, but we're reviewing everything."
    7. Mid of reporter asking a question
    8. Various of Hegseth leaving
    STORYLINE:
    U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that many countries appear on track to agree to Trump's 5% demand.
    "The commitment is there. 5% on defense spending," he told reporters after stepping out of the meeting.
    "When you consider the threats that we face, the urgency in the world, it’s critical. We don’t need more flags. We need more fighting formations. We don’t need more conferences. We need more capabilities. Hard power."
    It comes as NATO defense ministers gathered on Thursday to approve purchasing targets for stocking up on weapons and military equipment to better defend Europe, the Arctic and the North Atlantic, as part of a U.S. push to ramp up security spending.
    The “capability targets” lay out goals for each of the 32 nations to purchase priority equipment like air defense systems, long-range missiles, artillery, ammunition, drones and “strategic enablers” such as air-to-air refueling, heavy air transport and logistics. Each nation's plan is classified, so details are scarce.
    Spurred on by their own security concerns, European allies and Canada have already been ramping up military spending, including arms and ammunition purchases, since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
    At the same time, some allies balk at U.S. demands to invest 5% of their gross domestic product in defense — 3.5% on core military spending and 1.5% on the road... [truncated]
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  • Nintendo fans line up in Tokyo to collect new Switch 2 on release day
    (5 Jun 2025)
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  • NATO defence minsters pose for group photo in Brussels
    (5 Jun 2025)
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    ASSOCIATED PRESS
    Brussels, Belgium - 5 June 2025
    1. Mid of French Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu (left) and German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius (right)
    2. Mid of Lithuanian Defence Minister Dovilė Šakalienė
    3. Mid of Belgian Defence Minister Theo Francken speaking to Lecornu
    4. Mid of NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (left) patting US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth's (middle) back and UK Secretary of Defence John Healey (right)
    5. Wide of the NATO defence ministers posing for a group photo
    6. Wide pan right of the defence ministers posing for a photo
    7. Hegseth and Healey chatting
    8. Lecornu speaking with Swedish Defence Minister Pål Jonson
    9. Danish Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen speaking to Hegseth and Canadian Defence Minister David McGuinty introducing himself to Hegseth
    STORYLINE:
    NATO defence minsters posed for a group photograph in Brussels on Thursday as talks began to buy more weapons and military equipment to better defend Europe, the Arctic and North Atlantic.
    The “capability targets” lay out goals for each of the 32 nations to purchase priority equipment like air defence systems, long-range missiles, artillery, ammunition, drones and “strategic enablers”, such as air-to-air refuelling, heavy air transport and logistics. Each nation's plan is classified, so details were scarce.
    Spurred on by their own security concerns, European allies and Canada have already been ramping up military spending, including arms and ammunition purchases, since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
    At the same time, some allies balk at U.S. demands to invest 5% of their gross domestic product in defence — 3.5% on core military spending and 1.5% on the roads, bridges, airfields and sea ports needed to deploy armies more quickly — when they have already struggled to grow their budgets to 2% of GDP.
    The new targets are assigned by NATO based on a blueprint agreed upon in 2023 — the military organization’s biggest planning shakeup since the Cold War — to defend its territory from an attack by Russia or another major adversary.
    Under those plans, NATO would aim to have up to 300,000 troops ready to move to its eastern flank within 30 days, although experts suggest the allies would struggle to muster those kinds of numbers.
    The member countries are assigned roles in defending NATO territory across three major zones — the high north and Atlantic area, a zone north of the Alps, and another in southern Europe.
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  • Macron welcomes Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to Paris' Elysee Palace
    (5 Jun 2025)
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    Paris - 5 June 2025
    1. French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte welcome Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
    and his wife Rosângela Lula da Silva
    2. Couples posing for photo in Elysee courtyard and on Elysee steps
    STORYLINE:
    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva arrived in France on Thursday for a state visit aimed at deepening bilateral ties.
    French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed the Brazilian leader with a ceremony at Paris' Les Invalides and later to the Elysee palace.
    Officials said talks were set to include key areas including defence, the economy, biodiversity protection, energy transition, and the fight against disinformation.
    The meeting comes ahead of the third United Nations Conference on the Oceans in southern France next week, as well as the next UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) due to be held in Belém, Brazil in November.
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  • Large-scale US military exercises underway in northern Greece with NATO partners
    (5 Jun 2025)
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    Petrochori, Greece - 4 June 2025
    1. Various of military exercise
    2. SOUNDBITE (English) Maj. Gen. Levon Cumpton, chief of staff of US forces in Europe and Africa: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT4++
    "But we're thankful for all allies and partners coming together, building readiness that ensures our collective security, and collective security requires great readiness, it requires great interoperability, and it's exercises like this that gives us a chance to come together and be stronger together."
    4. Various of military exercise
    7. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Maj. Gen. Ilias Kostakis, commander of the Greek army's 20th armored division: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT8++
    "The hypothetical scenario was a general and vague one, without indicating any country or countries. NATO and American forces always work with such scenarios, so we simply integrated them, some hypothetical forces of irrelevant nationality, but integrated into the vicinity of the region, so there were defenders and attackers. With the help of the American forces, we also used simulation systems that made the whole training much more realistic."
    8. Various of military exercise
    STORYLINE:
    One of the largest U.S.-led military exercises in Europe this year—Immediate Response 25—showed off its skills during a demonstration in northern Greece on Wednesday.
    Bringing together 12,000 troops from eight NATO countries, including the U.S., Greece, France, Bulgaria, Spain, and North Macedonia, the exercises are aimed at strengthening joint readiness and NATO interoperability.
    "We're thankful for all allies and partners coming together, building readiness that ensures our collective security, and collective security requires great readiness. It requires great interoperability, and it's exercises like this that gives us a chance to come together and be stronger together," said Maj. Gen. Levon Cumpton, Chief of Staff, U.S. Forces Europe and Africa.
    In addition to Greece, the exercise is taking place in multiple Balkan countries from May 26 to June 9.
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