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France's top diplomat Stephane Sejourne meets with his Lebanese counterpart Abdallah Bou Habib during his second visit to the country since cross-border tensions with Israel flared on the back of the war in Gaza. IMAGES
Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin calls on the Iran-backed movement Hezbollah to avoid provoking a wider conflict amid near-daily skirmishes along the Israel-Lebanon border since Israel's war with Hamas. SOUNDBITE
Blame is shifting in the death of a top Hezbollah commander killed in Syria. Israel was originally suspected in his death, but now the group blames Sunni militants inside Syria. Nathan Frandino reports.
UN chief Antonio Guterres is "appalled" by Israel's escalating military activity in and around Rafah, a spokesman says, as clashes have rocked the densely crowded southern Gaza city. SOUNDBITE
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls for an immediate halt to hostilities between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, the return of hostages and an increase in aid to the beseiged Palestinian territory, in a video address to an international donors' conference in Kuwait. SOUNDBITE