00:00Israel and Lebanon will hold talks in Washington next week, a U.S. State Department official
00:06said on Thursday. The Lebanese government has yet to comment.
00:10Meanwhile, at least one person was killed in Israeli overnight strikes on the southern
00:16Lebanese village of Chukin, as Israel's military warned residents of Beirut's southern suburbs
00:22of imminent strikes and urged them to evacuate. This came one day after Israel pounded Beirut
00:29with strikes that killed more than 300 people, including 30 children, and wounded at least
00:361,100, Lebanon's health ministry said.
00:48Kuwait accused Iran and its proxies of launching drone attacks, targeting it on Thursday despite
00:55the ceasefire. Iran denied launching attacks on Persian Gulf states after Kuwait's announcement.
01:01Iran's new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khomeini, said that Tehran did not want war with the United
01:08States and Israel, but would protect its rights as a nation, according to state television.
01:14U.S. President Donald Trump accused Iran of doing a very poor job of allowing oil through
01:20the Strait of Hormuz and of breaching the terms of their fragile two-week ceasefire agreement.
01:26Talks between the United States and Iran on a resolution to the conflict are expected to
01:31start as soon as possible in Islamabad.
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