For today, links to three reports: from Middle East Eye, the Cradle, and National Public Radio; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (Scroll down for LEBANON 12-2-25.  Scroll up for today’s WEST BANK, GAZA and UKRAINE entries.) — MCM

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Lebanon and Israel hold first direct talks since 1983. From Middle East Eye. Israel and Lebanon held their first direct meeting in decades today, one year after a ceasefire agreement ended a war with Hezbollah. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from the Cradle.

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FROM DEC. 2  Pope Leo XIV sends message of support to southern Lebanon as he ends 1st foreign trip, by Nicole Winfield, Kareen Chehayeb and Bassem Mroue | AP  BEIRUT — Pope Leo XIV prayed today at the site of a deadly 2020 Beirut port explosion that has become a symbol of dysfunction and official impunity and called for justice to prevail, as he offered words of consolation to . . . READ MORE . . . Click HERE for same AP report in Spanish, and HERE for others.