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Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Thursday October 24th,

this is the excerpt. Today the latest on Middle Eastern tensions as blinking

blinkin visits the region, plus how voters feel about Donald Trump's

pending cases, whether or not he wins office and we talk about wealth

inequality.

Secretary of State Anthony Blinkin brought his push for peace into Saudi Arabia yesterday

amid intensified fighting in the region that even saw his own entourage compelled to take shelter in a hotel in Israel amid a Hezbollah rocket attack.

Israel's Air Force said it shot down two rockets from Lebanon that set off air raid sirens in Tel Aviv while

Blinken was completing a visit to the city. Sky News reported that some senior

State Department officials and media members at Lincoln's hotel left the

breakfast hall and rushed to the shelter downstairs,

with other hotel guests and staff when the sirens went off.

The New York Times reported that Lincoln also briefly sheltered there.

Lincoln later urged Israel to capitalize on the death of Hamas leader

Yaya Sinwar and other military gains in recent weeks.

Meanwhile Israel launched strikes on the Syrian capital of Damascus earlier today. Israel has been carrying out strikes

out strikes against Iranian-linked targets in Syria for years,

but it has ramped up raids over the past year.

Elsewhere, some 70 world powers will meet in Paris today,

aiming to raise money an urgent humanitarian aid for Lebanon and push for a ceasefire.

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