US talks between Lebanon and Israel end – as it happened

This live blog has now closed. You can read the latest on the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Iran here US president Donald Trump has said that talks with Iran could resume in Pakistan over next two days, according to an interview with the New York Post. “You should stay there, really, because something could be happening over the next two days, and we’re more inclined to go there,” Trump was quoted as saying. US secretary of state Marco Rubio said Israel-Lebanon talks in Washington were a “historic opportunity”.He said that while every complexity would not be resolved in coming hours, he hoped the parties would begin to move forward. Lebanon’s president expressed hope that direct talks would lead to an end of his country’s suffering after war erupted again between Israel and Hezbollah last month. “I hope that the meeting in Washington... will mark the beginning of the end of the suffering of the Lebanese people in general, and those in the south in particular,” president Joseph Aoun said in a statement, adding that “stability will not return to the south if Israel continues to occupy its lands”. The Israeli ambassador to the US said on Tuesday that Leban