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  • Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman.

  • The leaders of Britain and France are meeting today with officials of more than 40 nations.

  • They're talking about how to keep ships safe in the Strait of Hormuz, but only when the strait reopens.

  • The U.S.

  • And Iran are both blockading the strait in the midst of their two-week ceasefire.

  • Today is the first day of a 10-day temporary ceasefire in Lebanon to pause the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.

  • President Trump announced the deal online yesterday.

  • But many people displaced in Lebanon still cannot go home.

  • NPR's Kat Lonsdorf reports from Beirut.

  • Hussein Farhat fled his home early in the war and has been staying in central Beirut.

  • He told NPR Now he might venture back to his home and shop to check on them, but he won't be staying for good yet.

  • It's heartbreaking to just visit your home and then leave again, he says.

  • But for many of the more than one million people in Lebanon displaced by this war, they don't have homes to go back to.

  • Israel remains occupying whole villages in the south to create what it calls a buffer zone to keep Hezbollah

  • from firing rockets at its population.

  • After the ceasefire was announced yesterday,

  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated, quote, we are not leaving.

  • Kat Lonsdorff, NPR News, Beirut.

  • Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Testified at two congressional hearings this week.

  • NPR's Will Stone says Kennedy defended his record running HHS.