China celebrates Dragon Boat Festival

People across China are celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival, or Duanwu Festival, with activities including making Zongzi — sticky rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves — and holding dragon boat races (01:05). The US and Iranian negotiators are not meeting in Switzerland on Friday as planned, despite the agreement to stop the war and seek a permanent peace deal (11:26). The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has surpassed 890 (23:28).

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