Macron Backs Lebanon, Investigates UN Attack

0:00French President Emmanuel Macron is meeting Lebanon's Prime Minister Nawaf Salam and Paris today to back the ceasefire in Lebanon and defend the country's borders. They're also talking humanitarian aid for folks forced from their homes and key economic fixes to rebuild Lebanon's strength and get its economy, rolling again. This comes right after a rough attack Saturday on UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon. All arms fire hit the French-led force, killing one soldier and wounding three others, too badly. France and the UN point fingers at Hezbollah, though the group says they had nothing to do with it. Macron's pushing Lebanese leaders hard to investigate fully, find the culprits, and bring them to justice fast. He made it clear no one should target those blue-helmet troops keeping the peace. Meanwhile, the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, announced by the U.S. last Thursday, as hanged by a thread, it expires tomorrow. Pakistan's lining of fresh U.S. Iran talks and Lebanon and Israel plan another round in

1:01Washington later this week. Iran's holding firm that any truce has to cover Lebanon, too, or they won't reopen the straight-of-war moves. With all these moves, everyone's watching this see if this fragile calm holds or cracks wide open. Global news powered by AI. This is Canada News Today.