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Israel, Lebanon to negotiate on Hezbollah disarmament · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Christanamio with the
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  Speaker 1: Front's afternoon headlines. Israel will negotiate directly with Lebanon about
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  Speaker 1: disarming the Iran backed militia Hesbalah, with representatives to meet
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  Speaker 1: in Washington for talks next week. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
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  Speaker 1: Netna who said in a post on x he'd instructed
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  Speaker 1: his cabinet to commence talks with Lebanon in an attempt
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  Speaker 1: to quote establish peaceful relations between the two nations. They've
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  Speaker 1: continued to exchange fire amid confusion about whether Lebanon was
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  Speaker 1: included in a temporary ceasefire established between the United States
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  Speaker 1: and Iran this week. Israel insisted from the outset that
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  Speaker 1: Lebanon wasn't part of the deal, while Lebanon retaliated against
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  Speaker 1: strikes with missile fire into Israel. Kuwait also accused Iran
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  Speaker 1: and its proxy militias of launching drone attacks on the
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  Speaker 1: Gulf state in violation of the ceasefire deal, while Saudi
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  Speaker 1: Arabia said a key pipeline had been damaged by attacks
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  Speaker 1: allegedly by Iran, but the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps denied
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  Speaker 1: it had attacked any Gulf states. In state media, Iran
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  Speaker 1: agreed to reopen the Strait of Hornmores as part of
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  Speaker 1: the fourteen day cease fire, but reportedly planned to charge
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  Speaker 1: tankers a toll to pass through the vital shipping route.
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  Speaker 1: On Thursday night local time, US President Donald Trump criticized
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  Speaker 1: the regimes management of the strait and warned them against
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  Speaker 1: charging tolls for passage. We've used AI to bring the
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  Speaker 1: President's truth social post to life. The reports that Iran
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  Speaker 1: is charging fees to tankers going through the Hormuz Strait,
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  Speaker 1: they better not be, and if they are, they better
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  Speaker 1: stop now. The German news magazine Der Spiegel reported Secretary
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  Speaker 1: General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Mark Ruter told
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  Speaker 1: European member nations Trump expects them to commit to provide
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  Speaker 1: military support in the Strait of Hormus in the coming days.
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  Speaker 1: That's after Ruter met with the President at the White
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  Speaker 1: House on Wednesday. Traffic through the waterway is reportedly only
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  Speaker 1: a trickle, and South Korea's foreign ministry announced on Friday
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  Speaker 1: it will send an envoy to Iran to negotiate passage
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  Speaker 1: for its ships. About twenty percent of the world's daily
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  Speaker 1: oil needs passed through the Strait of Hormores on a
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  Speaker 1: daily basis, and dozens of South Korean ships have been
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  Speaker 1: stranded by its closure. American Vice President j D. Vance,
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  Speaker 1: along with Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushna, will
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  Speaker 1: meet with Iranian representatives in Pakistan this weekend for peace talks.
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  Speaker 1: In a rare diplomatic move, it was China that reportedly
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  Speaker 1: enticed Tehran to come to the negotiating table. The White
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  Speaker 1: House said Beijing and Washington had discussed the ceasefire plan
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  Speaker 1: at the quote top levels. A letter released in the
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  Speaker 1: name of new Supreme Leader Moushebakhamane on Thursday declared Iran
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  Speaker 1: was the quote definite victor in the war, which began
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  Speaker 1: when the US and Israel struck a ran on February
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight. The Ayatola allegedly praised the Iranian people for
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  Speaker 1: their defiance and pledged to move the management of the
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  Speaker 1: Strait of Hormuz quote into a new phase. In Gaza,
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  Speaker 1: a key deadline in the peace plan broke it in
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  Speaker 1: late twenty twenty five, is approaching, but it's looking unlikely.
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  Speaker 1: The Iran backed militant group Hamas will give up its
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  Speaker 1: weapons as required this weekend. HMMAS officials are due to
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  Speaker 1: meet with negotiators from Turkey, Qatar, Egypt and the US
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday, but they say they won't even discuss disarming
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  Speaker 1: unless Israel retreats from Gaza for good. Check out those
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  Speaker 1: stories live right now at the Australian dot com dot
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  Speaker 1: Saturday morning.