Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Kristen Wright.
President Trump has announced a three-week extension to the pause in fighting between Israel
and Iranian-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The 10-day ceasefire was to expire in the coming days.
Attacks still continue, though.
Hezbollah says it fired rockets into northern Israel last night.
The Israeli military responded with its own airstrikes on what it says were military structures.
Pope Leo is urging the U.S.
And Iran to return to the negotiating table for talks to end the war.
NPR's Ruth Sherlock has more.
Speaking during a press conference on the Papal Plain as he returned from a trip to countries in Africa,
Pope Leo urged leaders to adopt what he called a culture of peace.
Calling negotiations between Iran and the United States complex, he urged all sides to engage in dialogue.
Leo said he carried with him a photograph of a young Muslim Lebanese boy who was killed in Israel's recent attacks
against the Iran-backed group Hezbollah there.
The same child had been previously photographed carrying a sign welcoming the Pope when Leo visited Lebanon last year.
When conflicts arise, Pope Leo asked, the question is how to promote the values
we believe in without the deaths of so many innocents.
Ruth Sherlock, NPR News.
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