Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent

Israeli strikes kill 8 people in Gaza yesterday, 45 people arrested in the occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers injure at least 26 attacking olive harvesters and surrounding a house in the occupied West Bank, most diplomats will leave the British consulate in occupied East Jerusalem in retaliation for recent sanctions Israeli officials say, 3 people killed in attacks from Iran-aligned Houthi fighters at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the military will livestream the Army's upcoming firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan in what would be the first execution by firing squad by the US military since 1945, ICE agents reportedly shoot a man in New York City yesterday afternoon with his 5-year-old child in the back seat.

From the newsroom of WBAI 99.5FM in New York City, Pacifica Headlines provides a 5-minute rundown of the most important stories from around the world. Priority is given to subjects that may be underreported in mainstream news coverage.

Kenya reports its first Ebola case as Congo surpasses 4,000 deaths from the ongoing outbreak--the country's worst on record, Russian strikes across Ukraine kill 21 civilians including four children, 3 people killed in Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabian airports, WHO urges Moscow to formally respond to media reports of a second suspected case of pneumonic plague at a government lab in Siberia, Association of Flight Attendants-CWA President Sara Nelson says President Trump's proposed triumphal arch 250-foot arch presents multiple safety issues for aircraft.

Israelis commemorate the 3-year anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attack that reportedly killed 1,200, led to over 251 local residents taken hostage, and sparked a devastating war in Gaza that has led to 2 million Palestinians living in the rubble of their city with insufficient access to basic necessities like food and water, Israeli attacks in Gaza have reportedly killed at least 74,000 Palestinians according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health including at least 21,000 children, Israeli military forces killed 3 Palestinians across Gaza today, Yemen's government forces continue to engage in intense fighting with Iran-backed Houthis seizing control of the strategic Jabal al-Mansoura area west of Taiz, Vice President JD Vance says Iran must make a meaningful reduction in its nuclear enrichment capacity to satisfy US demands, more than 250,000 students, teachers and parents clash with police across France yesterday as part of the biggest day yet of a national activist movement for better high school conditions.

US withdraws all 12 B-1 Air Force bombers from the R.A.F. Fairford airbase following intelligence reports of a potential drone attack from Iran, US government monitoring the situation in Russia after a laboratory worker at a plague research institute in Siberia fell ill and died in undisclosed circumstances, Iran-backed Houthis attack airports, oil infrastructure and military sites in Saudi Arabia, thousands of students and faculty protest Cornell University's treatment of a former student who asserts in a recent lawsuit that she was given drugs and raped by 7 Chi Phi fraternity members in 2024, Stanford University professor Dr. Karl Deisseroth wins Nobel Prize for medicine for helping to open up a new field of brain science called optogenetics along with two German researchers.

5,000 supporters of jailed former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan begin a protest march to Islamabad, Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces seize key positions on the Bab el-Mandeb Strait saying more than 300 high-value targets have been hit in Yemen, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky vows to increase attacks on Russian energy infrastructure following report that Russia is planning broader strikes against Ukrainian civilian targets but says his country will not target civilians, Cornell University president Michael Kotlikoff announces the school will take steps to prevent the circumstances that led to the 2024 alleged gang rape of a student by 7 members of the Chi Phi fraternity.

25-year-old UK-Iranian dual national arrested on suspicion of plotting Sundays attempted attack on RAF Fairford, Pentagon is sending an additional 9,000 to 10,000 troops to the Persian Gulf, Yemen's military says it carried out 20 air strikes against Houthi positions across the country, Israeli forces and settlers carried out 2,051 attacks against Palestinians in September according to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, 400 schools in France expected to remain closed as student protests over education-related grievances turned violent in some parts of the country, the family of Renee Good, sues the Trump administration, New York governor Kathy Hochul has names state attorney general Letitia James to investigate a woman's allegation that she was raped by seven men in a fraternity house near the Cornell University campus in 2024

President Trump once again appears to threaten Iran with nuclear annihilation at an Oval Office press conference, Secretary of State Marco Rubio reportedly ordered Iran's foreign minister and his delegation to the UN to leave the country early when negotiations were not proceeding to the Trump administration's liking, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps calls yesterdays complete withdrawal of US forces from Iraq a "historic victory," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says it's too early to tell who was behind the apparent attempt to crash a Tel Aviv-bound flydubai flight, Israel's ambassador to the UN calls the incident a terror attack but does not specify by who, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth once again repeats a slur against trans people as he announces new Pentagon effort to study the future of warfare.

Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal says Russia behind mid-August attack on Milrem Robotic which supplies Ukraine with unmanned military vehicles, 9 Palestinians reportedly killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, 2 children among 4 people wounded in Israeli drone strike on Gaza displacement shelter, 700 Israeli settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem, Senate resolution to force the State Department to report to Congress on violence in the occupied West Bank fails mostly along party lines, 1 of the 5 men arrested near UK-owned air base RAF Fairford operated by the U.S. Air Force reportedly called the police on himself before an attempted attack, former special counsel Jack Smith who led 2 criminal cases against Trump in 2023 attacked by Republicans at Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.

Head of UK Counter Terrorism Policing Lawrence Taylor announces that the 5 suspects arrested in connection with the attempted attack on a US-controlled airbase in England have been released, President Trump denies claim made by his ambassador to China on Fox News Sunday that he had asked Chinese President Xi Jinping if he would like to purchase US weapons, US armed forces abandon last remaining bases in Iraq, Russia's round-the-clock bombardment of targets in Ukraine reportedly kills at least 7 people and wounds over 80, criminal F.B.I. hack of massive amounts of personal data of tens of thousands of former and current F.B.I. employees appears to be one of the worst breaches of sensitive government information in history, FBI Deputy Director Andrew Bailey announces that he is departing the bureau roughly a year in the role.

British police detail 5 men on suspicion of explosives and terrorism offenses after receiving a tip that 3 large white vans were seen heading to the military airfield RAF Fairford, a U.K.-owned base operated by the US Air Force, President Trump rejects Iran's latest proposal to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi says his country is open to diplomacy but will stand firm "even if it comes to a doomsday war," Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping if he would like to purchase US weapons, New York City Housing Authority confirms 56-year-old employee Leighton Brown was struck and killed Saturday by a falling tree during the powerful storms that hammered the east coast over the weekend.