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Aoun says there will be face-to-face talks Tuesday at the State Department, focusing on a ceasefire.
President Trump says he asked Israel to scale back its invasion of Lebanon, which is aimed at stopping Hezbollah from firing into Israel.
Israeli airstrikes are still hitting villages across the country's south, but have not hit Beirut's southern suburbs, where Hezbollah has offices, since Wednesday, when more than 350 people were killed in Israeli attacks, according to Lebanese officials, on the deadliest day here of this war.
Lauren Freyer, NPR News, Shatora, Lebanon.
The United Nations Secretary General and the International Committee of the Red Cross both condemned Israel's attacks, which struck densely populated central Beirut without warning, including near the seaside Corniche Promenade.
People are still missing, still under the rubble.
Lebanon's army says four soldiers are among those killed.
Israel says 100 airstrikes hit Beirut within 10 minutes, killing the nephew of Hezbollah's leader.
The Iran-backed group says it held its fire, trusting initial announcements that the ceasefire included Lebanon, but has now resumed firing rockets into Israel.
Vance says Israel has offered to, quote, check themselves a little bit in Lebanon to make sure ceasefire talks in Pakistan are successful.
But Israeli attacks continue here.
Lauren Freyer, NPR News, Beirut.
Well, church bells have tolled across Beirut on this national day of mourning.
Even as warplanes still tear across the sky, people are still missing, still under the rubble.
I heard more booms overnight.
Israel says it hit another bridge in southern Lebanon after that wave of attacks yesterday, in which Israel says it hit Beirut 100 times in 10 minutes, killing the nephew of Hezbollah's leader.
Hezbollah, for its part, held its fire yesterday, says it viewed the ceasefire as including Lebanon.
But Today says it has fired rockets into northern Israel and air raid sirens have gone off there.
Well, it did issue orders for Beirut's southern suburbs, but then it attacked central Beirut itself in attacks of the UN Secretary General, the International Committee for the Red Cross, if all condemned.