NPR News: 05-26-2026 1PM EDT

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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jeanine Herbst. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced plans for expanded maritime surveillance in the Indo-Pacific. It comes amid China's increased presence in the region. As NPR's Omkar Khandekar reports.

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Rubio says the US has agreed to share maritime surveillance data across the Indo-Pacific region with India, Japan, and Australia. He suggested the Quad security cooperation was prompted by fallout from Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Speaking to journalists in India, Rubio said that sixty percent of global trade passes through the Indo-Pacific, and...

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Current events remind us of what can happen when maritime security is impeded.

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China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson said that cooperation between countries should contribute to regional peace and not target any third party. Omkar Khandekar, NPR News, New Delhi.

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Russia launched more than one hundred drones and two ballistic missiles at Ukraine overnight. This after Moscow ro- warned foreign citizens and diplomats yesterday to leave Kyiv, citing its planned strikes on the Ukrainian capital. But despite the threats, the EU and other delegations say they will stay put. NPR's Joanna Kakissis has more.

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Putin says Russia is retaliating for a drone strike the Russians say killed more than twenty people, many of them teenagers, at a college in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine. Ukraine denies targeting the school and says it