WORLD Radio News - WORLD Radio News: 1-12-26 (3/3)

Episode Date: January 12, 2026

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With World Radio News on Kent Covington. President Trump says Iran wants to negotiate with the United States, even as activists to report the death toll from nationwide protests, has climbed to around 600 in Iran. Protests erupted weeks ago over Iran's collapsing economy. Activists say more than 10,000 people have been arrested since. Trump has said the U.S. could step in if Iran violently targets protesters, but he said Iranian leaders called yesterday.

Iran wants to negotiate. We may meet with them. I mean, a meeting is being set up, but we may have to act because of what's happening before the meeting. Officials in Tehran say they remain open to diplomacy while also blaming the unrest on outside forces, including the U.S. and Israel. In Ukraine, firefighters rushed to extinguish flames in Kiev this morning after an overnight Russian drone attack on an industrial neighborhood in the capital. No casualties were reported. The attack comes just after. At least one person died and three were wounded in a Ukrainian drone attack on the Russian city of Verona's over the weekend.

A former Trump administration official is stepping into leadership at META. World's Mary Muncie has more. The social media giant behind platforms like Facebook and Instagram says former Trump security official, Dina Powell McCormick, will be serving as president and board vice chairman. The 52-year-old Egyptian native also served as a senior White House advisor under President George W. Bush and is married to Pennsylvania's newly elected GOP Senator Dave McCormick. Meta's founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said McCormick's experience in global finance and international relations makes her uniquely qualified to oversee the next phase of meta's growth. For World, I'm Mary Muncie. Thousands of nurses walked off the job Monday at several major New York City hospital systems

after contract talks broke down. The strike affects hospitals in the New York Presbyterian, Mount Sinai, and Montefiorey networks. The nurses say they want safer staffing levels and better workplace safety and a fairer contract. Their union says about 15,000 nurses are involved, one of them told reporters. The strike is about getting a fair contract for safer staffing and also sticking to our health insurance, is what the outsider is trying to pull from us. Hospital leaders say they're trying to strike a deal, but the union's demands are too expensive.

Nurses counter that heavy workloads and safety concerns are putting patients and staff at risk. For World Radio, I'm Kent Covington. For more sound journalism grounded in facts and biblical truth, visit worldradiot news. Additional support comes from MediShare, where 350,000 members are saving money each day on their health care. Metashare.com slash world.