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Up next, Kent Covington has today's news.

Israeli government spokeswoman Shosh Bedrosian says the ongoing ceasefire talks between Israel and Lebanon are bearing fruit.

This week, the fourth high-level trilateral meetings between Israel, Lebanon, and the United States took place,

achieving something unprecedented.

For the first time, all three parties are aligned in their determination to keep Iran's terror proxy, Hezbollah, out of the equation.

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