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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken voices hope for a deal to free hostages from Gaza but said more work was needed after briefing Israeli leaders on a Qatari-brokered proposal. IMAGES
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu receives US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Jerusalem. Blinken reiterated US opposition to an Israeli assault on the crowded Gaza city of Rafah in talks with Netanyahu, who has vowed to press ahead, a US official said. IMAGES
Israel has not shared a date for an assault on Gaza's Rafah with the United States, which will keep raising concerns, Secretary of State Antony Blinken says, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the time was set. "No, we do not have any date for an operation, at least one that's been communicated to us by the Israelis," Blinken tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Benjamin Netanyahu as part of efforts to contain the war in Gaza, a day after strikes in Syria and Lebanon killed high-profile members of Hamas and its ally Hezbollah. IMAGES
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken voices hope for a positive outcome on a UN Security Council resolution on the Israel-Hamas war after previous US vetoes. "We've been working this intensely," Blinken tells reporters. "I hope we can get to a good place." SOUNDBITE
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).