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Support for this podcast and the following message come from Autograph Collection Hotels, with over 300 independent hotels around the world, each exactly like nothing else. Autograph Collection is part of the Marriott Bonvoy portfolio of hotel brands. Find the unforgettable at autographcollection.com. Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. President Joe Biden and China's leader Xi Jinping met Saturday during the Asia-Pacific Economic Summit underway this weekend in Peru. Speaking with reporters, Biden said he's had a solid relationship with Xi during his term

in office. We haven't always agreed, but our conversations have always been candid and always been frank. We have never kidded one another. We've been level with one another. Xi, meanwhile, called the relationship with the US stable. Police in China, meanwhile, say eight people were killed and 17 others were injured Saturday night during an attack at a vocational school

in the eastern city of Wuxi. A 21-year-old suspect has been arrested. Police say the man had failed his exams and could not graduate. The attack comes just days after a man drove his car into people at a sports facility in southern China. 35 people were killed and 43 others were injured. President-elect Donald Trump has villainized the press since his first run for the White House, but these days he talks less about the news being fake and more about punishing it.

And Piers David Folkenflick has more. The incoming president has sued CBS. He's also said he'd make it easier for people to sue news organizations for libel, he'd have reporters and editors imprisoned for shielding confidential sources, and that he'd strip broadcast licenses from major networks. In reality, the federal government regulates individual stations, not networks, but ABC, CBS, and NBC own 80 stations among them. Former Trump aides helped craft a conservative agenda that would cut funds for public broadcasters,

including PBS and NPR. Only a percent or so of NPR's funds come from federal sources, but member stations get more. Before Election Day, Trump disavowed the larger plan, but he's posted similar ideas online. David Folkenflick, NPR News. Israel's war with Hezbollah has intensified as thousands of people have evacuated from the border with Israel and Lebanon. But NPR's Scott Newman reports that foreign farm laborers are still working the fields there. Four foreign laborers from Thailand were killed in recent weeks by a Hezbollah rocket that landed in a field they were working. Uban Namsam is a 28-year-old from Thailand who picks kiwi fruit in an area Israel has deemed too dangerous for its own citizens.

Namsam says he's not too afraid of the rockets. Even so, as he speaks with NPR, he's suddenly forced to run for shelter as a salvo of rockets streak in. Despite a protest from Thailand, Israel's military continues to grant permission to cultivate in the restricted military zone. Scott Newman, NPR News, Tel Aviv. Hundreds of activists formed a human chain at the United Nations Climate Summit this weekend in Azerbaijan during a global day of action. They held up signs calling for more money to be pledged toward a transition to clean energy and they say they also want more money for adaptation to the damages that are caused

by climate change adaptation by lesser developed countries. You're listening to NPR News. A minister in the far-right Dutch government has resigned over what she says have been racist comments made by other officials. Terri Schulz has more in that story. The Dutch government was on the edge of collapse Friday night amid the possibility that several ministers would quit over what they say are Islamophobic reactions to violence against supporters of an Israeli soccer team on November 8. After crisis consultations, only one junior minister from an opposition party, Nora Aachabar, decided to leave.

She was born in Morocco and says positions in the government have become so polarized, particularly against migrants, that she can no longer carry out her duties in the finance ministry. The government in the Netherlands is the most right-wing in the country's history, dominated by the far-right Party for Freedom. The party wants to deport any dual nationals who were involved in the soccer violence. For NPR News, I'm Terri Schultz. Police say two flash bombs were fired toward the home of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday.

The devices fell into the home's garden. Neither Netanyahu or his family were home at the time of that attack. In October, a drone was also launched at the home, but it caused no damage. Charlie Hull has a one-shot lead over Nellie Korda with one round remaining this weekend in the LPGA event at the Pelican Golf Club in Florida. Both Korda and Hull bogeyed the final hole in the dark and later expressed frustration at starting the round so late in the day. Korda began the day two strokes off the lead but opened with two bogeys in her first four holes.

She had to come back from a six-stroke deficit to make it to second place. I'm Dale Willman and you're listening to NPR News. Listen to this podcast sponsor free on Amazon Music with a Prime membership or any podcast app by subscribing to NPR News Now Plus at plus.npr.org. That's plus.npr.org.