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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder. Authorities in Paris have begun making arrests and last weekend's theft of some of the French crown jewels from the Louvre Museum. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports one was apprehended last night while trying to leave the country. In a statement, the Paris prosecutor condemned the leak of information in the case, which she said had forced them to reveal facts prematurely that could compromise the investigation. The brazen daytime heist at the museum last Sunday stunned France. Four men dressed as workmen broke into an upper floor window using a ladder on a moving truck. They made off with $100 million worth of royal jewels from the 19th century reign of Emperor Napoleon III.

According to Le Paris newspaper, the men arrested are from the Paris suburbs. One was preparing to board a flight from Charles de Gaul airport with some of the stolen items from the Louvre. Eleanor Beardsley in Pierre News, Paris. Trump is in Malaysia for his first stop on a week-long trip to the Indo-Pacific region. He's at the ASEAN summit where he presided over the signing of a peace deal between Cambodia and Thailand. Here's NPR's Deepa Shiveron reporting. A border dispute between Cambodia and Thailand re-errupted this summer. Dozens were killed.

Along with Malaysia, President Trump helped broker a peace agreement by threatening to increase tariffs on Cambodia and Thailand. And we're so honored to be involved in that. It was so important to me. Two great countries, but they were going at it. The president also signed an agreement on trade with Cambodia and one on critical minerals with Thailand. He heads to Tokyo on Monday. Deepa Shiverram, NPR News, Kuala Lumpur.

After meeting today with top Chinese officials on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson, said the two sides had reached what he called a successful framework on a trade agreement that President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will discuss when they meet later this week. The U.S. and China have been at odds over Beijing's expansion of export controls on rare earth minerals. New Jersey, along with Virginia, are the only two states holding gubernatorial elections this year.

And as Bruce Convisor reports, in New Jersey, early voting began this week. The gubernatorial race in the Garden State is being closely watched as a window into voters' take on the first months of the second Trump administration. Democratic Congresswoman Mikey Sherrill is leading in polls, though the margin has narrowed over her Republican opponent Jack Chittarelli over the past few months. Governor Phil Murphy, a Democrat, is term limited and approaching the end of his eight-year run. Two historical trends will collide in this election. It has been a hundred years since Democrats won three consecutive gubernatorial races in New Jersey. Yet it has been more than 50 years since New Jersey voters elected a governor who belonged to the same party as the sitting U.S. president. For NPR news, I'm Bruce Convizer and Green.

Brook, New Jersey. And you're listening to NPR News. Overseas now, Kurdish militants announced today that they will withdraw from Turkey as part of a peace process between Ankara and the Kurdistan Workers Party, the PKK. Duri Baskeran reports from Istanbul. The PKK released a statement today announcing it would withdraw its militants from Turkey and move them to northern Iraq. This effort, it said, focus on forces that might be vulnerable to, quote, possible provocations. The PKK has been negotiating a disarmament process with the Turkish government for the past six months. A spokesman for Turkey's ruling a K party wrote on social media today that Ankara supports

the disarmament process. The PKK, which is designated as a terrorist organization by both the U.S. and Turkey, has waged an insurgency in Turkey, Syria, and Iraq since 1984. Tens of thousands of people have died in the fighting. For NPR News, I'm Jerry Buscaram in Istanbul. Jamaica is being hit by heavy rain and damaging winds from Hurricane Melissa. Forecasters say Melissa is intensifying and is now a powerful category four storm. The National Hurricane Center is warning that Melissa could cause catastrophic flooding and landslides in Jamaica and Haiti.

Several deaths have already been reported in Haiti and the Dominican Republic due to flooding. Landfall in Jamaica expected sometime Monday night or Tuesday morning. Major League Baseball's World Series tied at a game of peace. Los Angeles Dodgers took game two last night, beating the Toronto Blue Jays 5 to 1. Game 3 is set for tomorrow night in Los Angeles. I'm Giles Snyder, NPR News.