For now, links to THREE reports and an analysis: from or via National Public Radio, Reuters, Common Dreams, and the Cradle; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials as highlighted. (Scroll down for LEBANON 4-27-26.)

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Ceasefire in south Lebanon fraying as U.S.-Iran talks stall. Kat Lonsdorf and Steve Inskeep of NPR talks about it. Click HERE to listen and, later, read; and HERE for link to other Iran war-related reports today on NPR’s “Morning Edition.”

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As war nears two months, displaces Lebanese family sinks into dispair, by Raghed Waked and Zohra Bensemra | Reuters  BEIRUT — Like so many others, Rabih Khreiss’s family fled their southern hometown of Khiyam in southern Lebanon in the early hours of March 2, moments after learning that the Hezbollah armed group had fired into Israel in what would become the opening salvos of a new war. READ MORE . . .

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FROM APRIL 25  Press freedom groups demand international probe into Israel’s killing of journalist Amal Khalil, by Jake Johnson | Common Dreams  Global press freedom organizations are demanding an immediate international probe into the Israeli military’s apparently targeted killing of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil, who died trapped under the rubble of a home bombed by Israeli forces earlier this week. READ MORE . . .

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FROM APRIL  27  Truce politics and the limits of normalization, by Mohamad Shams Eddine | The Cradle  Lebanon has entered a deeply sensitive political phase since the shift from open war with Israel to a temporary ceasefire under direct U.S. sponsorship. The guns have not fully fallen silent in the south, and yet the focus has already moved toward what comes next. READ MORE . . .

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