Larissa Huntington
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And that was after their ambassadors met in Washington DC this week in what was the first face-to-face meeting between the nations in 34 years.
For some background here, since the start of the war in Iran, the regime's proxy group, Hezbollah, in Lebanon and the Israeli military have been fighting each other.
That's left more than 2,100 people in Lebanon dead and over a million more displaced.
And as for how the ceasefire will go, nobody knows just yet.
Hezbollah says that if Israeli troops stay in Lebanon, it gives the people the right to resist.
But Israel says its forces won't be withdrawing from southern Lebanon.
I know you just touched on the case briefly yesterday.
So to backtrack a little bit, Duggan used to be part of the US military before he moved to Australia in the early 2000s and later became an Australian citizen.
And the crux of the case against him is that
Around 2012, he's accused of training Chinese pilots to land on an aircraft carrier, which is a breach of arms trafficking legislation in the US.
He was arrested in 2022, and he's been fighting extradition to the US ever since, while being held in a maximum security prison.
Yeah, so if you don't know what we're talking about, Live Golf is the professional league set up to rival the more long-running dominant US and European golf tours.
It's funded by Saudi Arabia, as he said, and it's said to have set them back at least $7 billion to date.
And it wasn't good timing for these reports to surface this week.
It came just before players teed off at Live's Mexico City event overnight.
And Live executives are staying pretty tight-lipped.
But the chief, Scott O'Neill, says that it's fully funded through 2026 and the South Australian government, which is currently paying for course upgrades for the tournament, is
says that it's sought and got assurances about its future.
And Alice, when you say major search, you're not kidding there.
More than 300 firefighters, police and military troops have been out looking, but...