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The Economic Times
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Mixed signs of peace: 3 Saudi oil tankers cross Hormuz, Israel strikes Lebanon

BEIRUT | JERUSALEM | QLAILIEH: Three Saudi-flagged supertankers carrying 6 million barrels of crude sailed through the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, hours after US President Donald Trump signed a deal with Iran to end the war that has disrupted global energy supplies.

But in Lebanon, where more than a million people are displaced by the fighting, Israeli forces launched fresh airstrikes on Thursday morning, raising doubt about how far Trump will go to force his wartime allies to halt an offensive he has now pledged to end.

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