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Israeli Ministers Plan to Vote on Israel-Hezbollah Cease-Fire Deal

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was expected to present a deal mediated by U.S. and French diplomats to end the fighting. The Israeli military kept up the pressure with heavy strikes in and ...

Top stories - The New York Times - Yesterday

Israel Approves Cease-Fire With Lebanon Aimed at Ending Hezbollah Conflict

The cease-fire is intended to halt more than a year of fighting with the Hezbollah militia and could help defuse a broader regional crisis.

World - The Wall Street Journal - 16 hours ago

Oil prices finish lower, pressured by an Israel-Hezbollah cease-fire deal

Crude futures settled slightly lower on Tuesday as a cease-fire deal between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah eased concerns about risks to supplies in the oil-rich Middle East.

Business - MarketWatch - 18 hours ago

Wednesday Briefing: Israel Approves Hezbollah Cease-Fire Deal

Plus, Mexico reacts to Trump’s tariff threats.

World - The New York Times - 18 hours ago

Biden Announces Cease-Fire Deal Between Israel and Lebanon

With a deal to end more than a year of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, the president turns his attention back to stopping the war in Gaza before leaving office.

World - The New York Times - 15 hours ago

Israel Approves Cease-Fire With Hezbollah to Halt War in Lebanon

President Biden said the 60-day truce, which the United States helped broker, would take effect early Wednesday, and was intended to become permanent, ending Lebanon’s deadliest war in decades.

World - The New York Times - 11 hours ago

What the Cease-Fire Between Israel and Lebanon Means for Gaza

Can a truce lead to an enduring peace?

Top stories - The New York Times - 17 hours ago

Cease-Fire Deal Leaves Beleaguered Palestinians in Gaza Feeling Forgotten

With a truce between Israel and Hezbollah taking hold, Gazans are losing hope that Israel’s war in the enclave will end anytime soon.

World - The New York Times - 3 hours ago

US-brokered cease-fire in effect between Israel and Hezbollah

A long-sought cease-fire brokered by the U.S. is now in effect between Israel and Hezbollah. Biden says the agreement was "designed to be a permanent cessation of hostilities." However, questions ...

Danish police close investigation into Old Stock Exchange fire

Danish police are closing the investigation into the devastating fire that destroyed more than half of Copenhagen’s Old Stock Exchange

World - ABC News - November 12

Updates: Israel’s Parliament Passes Bill That Threatens Work of U.N. Agency for Palestinians

The Knesset opened its winter session and approved legislation that banned the agency known as UNRWA from operating in Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his spy chief was back home ...

World - The New York Times - October 29

Senior Biden officials head to Israel as optimism grows over Lebanon cease-fire

TEL AVIV — Senior White House officials will travel to Israel on Thursday, a U.S. official and a source briefed on the matter told NBC News, as the Biden administration intensifies efforts to end ...

Hezbollah chief says group will hold out in its war with Israel for 'suitable' cease-fire terms

Hezbollah’s newly named leader Naim Kassem has said in his first public comments that the militant group will keep fighting in its ongoing war with Israel until it is offered cease-fire terms it ...

World - ABC News - October 30

Top U.S. Officials Head to Middle East to Try to Jumpstart Cease-Fire Talks

William Burns, the C.I.A. director, is making a last-ditch attempt to move Gaza talks along before U.S. elections next week.

World - The New York Times - October 31

Rocket barrage kills 7 in Israel as U.S. pushes for cease-fires in Lebanon and Gaza

Israel’s rescue service said projectiles fired from Lebanon on Thursday killed two more people in northern Israel, raising death toll there to seven in what’s been the deadliest rocket barrage ...

Netanyahu tells US envoys that Israel must enforce security in any Lebanon cease-fire deal

Israel’s prime minister told top Biden administration officials on Thursday that the main points of any cease-fire agreement with Hezbollah must provide Israel the ability to counter security ...

Politics - The Hill - October 31

Qatar suspends mediation efforts amid stalled Israel-Hamas cease-fire talks

Qatar, one of the chief negotiators of a potential cease-fire between Hamas and Israel, said it will suspend its mediation efforts, according to officials. The move comes amid growing frustration ...

Politics - The Hill - November 9

Israel keeps up fierce Lebanon bombardment and awaits Hezbollah response on truce proposal

BEIRUT — An Israeli airstrike flattened a building near one of Beirut’s busiest traffic junctions Friday, shaking the Lebanese capital as Israel kept up its intensified bombardment even as ...

Top Iranian official holds talks in Lebanon on Israel-Hezbollah war

Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, asked Iran to help secure a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hezbollah

World - ABC News - November 15

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