Israel agreed to suspend its airstrikes in southern Lebanon for 48 hours. U.S. State Department spokesman Adam Ereli made the announcement Sunday night in Jerusalem after Israel’s prime minister, Ehud Olmert, met with the U.S. secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice.
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