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facilitates peace talks between Israel and Lebanon in the hopes of finding a solution to the decades-old conflict reignited by the war with Iran.

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Mediators are racing to bring the U.S. and Iran back to the negotiating table amid a standoff over the Strait of Hormuz and a precarious ceasefire.

Historic talks, however, did happen today.

The U.S. hosted the first face-to-face meeting

between Israel and Lebanon in decades to discuss the shared goal of ending the war between Israel

and Iran-back Hezbollah in Lebanon. William Brangam begins our coverage.

The funeral marches seem endless in Beirut.

Red Cross volunteers carried the body of one of their own,

31-year-old Hassan Badawi, killed this weekend by an Israeli drone strike.

His family wept, his Red Cross colleagues embraced, and then it was back to work. Joining other first responders to find bodies under the mountains of rubble that remain

from Israel's relentless attacks against what it says are Hezbollah targets.

Many victims were civilians.

That includes the devastating strike last week that Lebanese health officials say killed more than 400 people in a span of just 10 minutes.

Israel claimed hundreds of those killed were Hezbollah militants.

More smoke from strikes clouded the horizon today in southern Lebanon,

as Israel presses ahead with its air campaign and ground invasion,

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