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This message comes from Bayer. Science is a rigorous process that requires questions, testing, transparency, and results that can be proven. This approach is integral to every breakthrough Bayer brings forward. Innovations that save lives and feed the world. Science Delivers.com Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. European Union leaders are urgently holding meetings to talk about President Trump's latest proposal for peace between Russia and Ukraine.

Terry Schultz reports there will be a round of talks, including European, U.S., and Ukrainian officials in Geneva tomorrow. In a joint response to President Trump's 28-point plan to settle Russia's war on Ukraine, the EU, plus several European leaders, Canada and Japan, called a proposal a draft which will require additional work. The group met on the sidelines of the G20 in Johannesburg. Their statement reiterated the principle that borders must not be changed by force and expresses concern about the Trump plan's proposed limitations on Ukraine's armed forces,

which it says would leave Ukraine vulnerable to future attack. It also emphasizes that any agreement that affects the EU and NATO would require consent from the multinational organizations. For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz. People who buy their own health insurance on health care.gov and those who get health insurance through work are facing higher costs next year. and Peer Salina Simmons-Steuffin has more. There's a common misconception that insurance company profits are the main driver of rising prices, says Cynthia Cox of the nonpartisan health research organization, KFF.

Instead, she says it's what doctors and hospitals charge that drives higher costs compared to other countries. A hospital visit in the United States costs more. A doctor's visit costs more, the same prescription drug costs more. She says it's not that Americans use more health care. We have slightly fewer doctors' visits in slightly shorter hospital states than people in similarly large and wealthy countries do. Americans just pay more for the care that they do use. Selina Simmons-Stefin and PR News. Brazil's former president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested after a judge ordered his preventative arrest amid suspicions that he was about to flee.

The far-right leader, a Trump ally, had been under house arrest since all. August, waiting for the final appeal stage over his prison sentence for trying to stage a coup. Giulio Canero has more. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Morais issued the preventive arrest order in the middle of the night, alleging flight risk. The decision came a day after a vigil was called outside Bolsonaro's home, and hours after security agents received the alarm that Bolsonaro's ankle monitor had been tampered with. Moray cited both incidents in his order, saying the vigil could be a diversion for Bolsonaro to

escape to a foreign embassy, citing that the U.S. embassy was a 15-minute drive from his home. Brazil's former president is now detained in a federal police base. His defense said the preventive arrest caused, quote, deep perplexity and alleges risk to Bolsonaro's life because of the series of health issues he faces. Julia Canario reporting. You're listening to NPR News. In Geneva, more than 1,400 delegates gathered at a week-long event on the World Health Organization's tobacco control treaty, focusing on reducing smoking rates. The group also talked about whether e-cigarettes, heated tobacco, and nicotine pouches could be used to help people quit smoking.

And while that's a strategy promoted in the U.K., the WHO is now against the idea, saying these newer products are being pushed by the tobacco industry and hooking non-smokers, especially younger ones. W.H.O says these e-cigarettes and the like should be regulated at least as strict. as traditional cigarettes. Wicked for Good, the second half of a two-part movie musical about pink and green witches and Oz is raking in a lot of green at the box office. And here's Bob Mandello has more. Wicked for Good had a very good opening day, $68 million. No.

I'm obsessio later. But that figure comes with an asterisk. As with many big films, the studio includes previews in its opening day figure. Usually, that means showings the night before. But Wicked for Good had previews on Monday in more than a thousand theaters, and then some more on Wednesday, before Thursday, when a lot of the previews were actually double features with the first Wicked. That's a serious stretch for an opening day.

Please. Where'd you get that? Still, any way you slice it, more than 5 million people have already seen Wicked, a number that's expected to more than double by the end of the weekend. Bob Mandello, NPR News. And I'm Janine Hurst, NPR News in Washington. This message comes from Wise, the app for using money around the globe. When you manage your money with Wise, you'll always get the mid-market exchange rate with no hidden fees. Join millions of customers and visit Wise.com.

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