Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hirst. The Pentagon says 3,500 Marines and sailors have arrived in the Middle East on board the USS Tripoli as President Trump presses Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz.

Meanwhile, NPR's Ayabatrawi reports officials from the United Arab Emirates and Qatar met separately with Vice President

Vance this week.

The UAE and Qatar hosts thousands of U.S. troops and their energy facilities have been hit

in Iranian counterstrikes in the war.

The UAE says a ceasefire with Iran isn't enough.

It's pushing for a deal that addresses Iran's nuclear enrichment, its drones and missiles,

and its control of the strait. The UAE says Emirati minister Sultan al-Jabber, who heads Abu Dhabi's

national oil company Adnock, met this week with Vance and Senator Lindsay Graham, who backs regime

change in Iran. Qatar says its prime minister, Mohamed al-Thani met Vance Friday. Qatar has taken a more

conciliatory tone. It says Iran's attacks on Mohamed El Fannie met Vance Friday. Qatar has taken a more conciliatory tone.

It says Iran's attacks on its sovereignty are unacceptable, but that the war must end through

diplomatic means.

Ayyabotrawi and Pierre News, Dubai.

Three Lebanese journalists covering the Israeli invasion of their country have been killed in an

Israeli air strike. Israel accuses one of them of being a Hezbollah militant

operating under the guise of a journalist, but it hasn't provided evidence. And Peers Lauren Freire has more.

Two of the journalists were siblings, TV correspondent Fatima Fetuni and her cameraman brother

Mohamed Fetuni. Afterward, their father appeared on TV saying he was proud of his

children. The journalist Israel says it targeted was Ali Shaib, a veteran TV correspondent and a

household name in Lebanon. After killing him, Israel's military issued a statement accusing him

of exposing the locations of Israeli troops. All three had been covering Israel's invasion of

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