Headlines- Iran peace talks get underway.
- According to Lebanon's Ministry of Health, Israeli military activity in three instances in the Nabatieh district resulted in at least ten fatalities and nine injuries.
- US Vice President J. D. Vance has arrived to Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, to lead the cease-fire talks.
- The speaker of Iran's parliament Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf is leading the delegation that has arrived to Pakistan for talks with the United States.
- As part of talks with Lebanon that are scheduled to begin next week, Israel stated on Friday that it will not negotiate about a truce with the militant pro Iran Hezbollah group.
- The president of Lebanon announced on Friday that Israel and Lebanon would meet in Washington, D.C., next week to talk about a truce and begin talks.
- More than 180 Hezbollah fighters were killed in airstrikes the Israeli military carried out in Lebanon two days prior, the Israeli military claimed on Friday.
- Hezbollah claims to have bombed Israeli military positions in southern Lebanon's Tyre and Shamaa.
- More than 3,000 Iranians have died as a result of U.S.-Israeli attacks since February 28, Abbas Masjedi, the head of Iran's Forensic Medicine Organization, said Mizan, the official news agency of the Iranian judiciary, on Thursday.
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Vietnam Protests China’s Development of Disputed...
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Philippines, India Conduct Joint Exercises in...
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