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 Live from NPR in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. Just now, Vice President Vance said he's traveling to Switzerland [瑞士] today for negotiations [谈判] with Iran. This as Tehran [德黑兰] says he closed the Strait of Hormuz [霍尔木兹海峡] because of Israel's continuing deadly attacks on Lebanon. NPR's Franco Ordonez, has more. Vice President Vance said U.S. Envoys [特使] Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are already on the ground in Switzerland dealing with some of the technical elements [技术元素/细节] of the negotiations. Vance claimed [停火] the ceasefire [停火] was going well and that the Strait of Hormuz was now opened. In an interview with Fox News, he dismissed [不理会] reports that the Iranians had closed the Strait in response to Israeli strikes on Hezbollah [真主党] fighters in Lebanon. But he said there are still some challenges [挑战] and dangers that needed to be addressed [处理]. No, we're not seeing any evidence that the Iranians are still closing down the Strait of Hormuz. It is going to take some time to clear those mines [水雷], though. Vance said millions of barrels [桶] of oil had recently passed through the Strait in the last couple of days. 

European Union leaders are split [分裂] over a top bloc [集团，此处指欧盟] official opening a diplomatic channel [外交渠道] to Moscow without consulting [咨询] them. Terry Schultz has more. European Council President Antonio Costa defends [辩护] his decision to direct his chief of staff [幕僚长] to reach out to the Kremlin [克里姆林宫] despite not having the backing [支持] of the 27 EU governments he represents. What I'm doing through my office is to establish a diplomatic channel because we cannot depend only on others to interpret [解析] Russian messages and we must be able to convey [传递] directly our own messages. Some countries, including Belgium and Spain [比利时和西班牙], support the move. But French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz were among those rejecting it, saying if and when Moscow gets serious about peace talks, it should be leaders of individual countries, like themselves, in the lead [领导]. 

Ebola [埃博拉病毒] cases continue to rise in eastern Congo [刚果] with 900 confirmed infections [感染], 234 deaths, as health workers struggle to trace [追踪] contacts and isolate [隔离] people. Emmett Livingstone has more. Congo says health workers are tracing 72% of the contacts of Ebola patients. But aid workers [帮扶的工作人员] disagreed. In Turi province, the epicentre [（疫情）中心] of the outbreak [爆发], many people are avoiding hospital and deaths are occurring in communities unrecorded. Some senior aid workers said that they're only managing to trace about 40% of contacts. The Turi's health system has been devastated [毁坏] by decades of conflict [冲突] and neglect [忽视]. Convali's medical staff there say they're also struggling to isolate suspected Ebola patients. Until recently, patients regardless of ailment [疾病] were sharing toilet space at a rural [乡村的] hospital. Fixing these problems involves the slow task of building new infrastructure [基建] as Ebola spreads fast. 

The majority of Americans who need a kidney transplant [肾脏移植] never make it onto an organ [器官] waiting list [等待/排队名单]. That's the conclusion of a new study of more than 720,000 patients referred [被（医生）推荐] for the procedure [手术]. NPR's Maria Godoy has more. Only 12% of people on dialysis [透析] are registered on the kidney transplant wait list. Researchers at NYU Langone wanted to know what kept them from making it onto the list. They found that patients who were unmarried, lived in rural areas, or had severe obesity [严重肥胖] were less likely to start or complete the needed evaluations. Older, poor, and Spanish-speaking [说西班牙语的] patients were especially unlikely to move forward with the process. All told [全部计算上], fewer than one in five patients referred for a transplant made it onto the wait list. The researchers say the battery [战斗，此处指困难] of tests and doctor visits required may be hard for patients to navigate [应付/处理] if they lack [缺乏] social support. The findings appear in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology [肾病学]. 

The National Weather Service says a widespread storm system will bring the chance of severe storms and flooding over much of the plains [美国中部大平原] and Midwest. And in the Southeast, hot temperatures and stifling [令人窒息的] humidity [潮湿] are forecast this weekend. Parts of several western states are also under red flag warnings for extremely dry, windy conditions that could spark wildfires [引发野火]. Meanwhile, much of Europe is sweltering [闷热] under heat wave with temperatures climbing toward record levels. Germany issued nationwide heat alerts.