live Trump sees 'progress' in Israel-Lebanon talks as Hezbollah rejects ceasefire

Trump sees 'progress' in Israel-Lebanon talks as Hezbollah rejects ceasefire
U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., 4 June 2026.
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U.S. President Donald Trump said he sees progress between Israel and Lebanon after talks with Netanyahu, while Hezbollah has rejected a new ceasefire proposal and Israel has ruled out a troop withdrawal.

⦿ 03:09 GMT | UPDATE

Iran says U.S. and Israel responsible for child deaths in Gaza and beyond

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Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Esmaeil Baghaei, accused the United States and Israel of killing children in Gaza, the West Bank, Iran's Minab and elsewhere around the world.

“For what crime are innocent children being killed?” Baghaei asked in a social media post.

“From Gaza and the West Bank to Beirut, Minab, Lamerd, Tehran, and many other places across Iran and the world, wherever children have perished under the bombs and missiles of the United States and the Israeli regime, the truth is the same: no military objective, no political interest, and no security pretext can ever justify the slaughter of children,” he wrote.

“Children are neither parties to war nor tools of it. They are the living conscience of humanity. Every child killed or maimed is a burial of a part of our shared humanity.”

⦿ 02:51 GMT | UPDATE

Trump says progress being made in Israel-Lebanon talks 

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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he believed progress was being made between Israel and Lebanon and that Lebanon "deserved peace", despite fresh setbacks to efforts aimed at ending the conflict.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump said he had spoken with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and added: "I actually spoke to Hezbollah about it." He said he believed progress was being made after years of tensions.

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