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Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah have agreed to a ceasefire beginning at 4 p.m. local time on Friday (1300 GMT), a senior US official told Reuters, after hostilities between them had escalated sharply overnight in Lebanon.

“Hezbollah and Israel have agreed to a ceasefire,” the official said, adding that negotiators for the US and Qataris worked out the deal with help from Iran.

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