{"id":326059,"date":"2026-04-16T14:19:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=326059"},"modified":"2026-04-16T14:19:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:19:56","slug":"trump-says-israel-lebanon-talks-to-take-place-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=326059","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Israel-Lebanon talks to take place on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WASHINGTON, April 16 (Xinhua) &#8211; U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that Israel-Lebanon talks will take place on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Trying to get a little breathing room between Israel and Lebanon. It has been a long time since the two leaders have spoken, like 34 years. It will happen tomorrow,&#8221; Trump wrote on Truth Social.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel and Lebanon on Tuesday held a meeting in Washington, where Israel insisted on Hezbollah&#8217;s disarmament and Lebanon called for a ceasefire and concrete measures to ease the severe humanitarian crisis resulting from the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, according to a statement from the U.S. State Department.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All sides agreed to launch direct negotiations at a mutually agreed time and venue, said the statement.  The meeting marked the first major high-level engagement between Israel and Lebanon since 1993, it said.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;NNN-Xinhua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, April 16 (Xinhua) &#8211; U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that Israel-Lebanon talks will take place on Thursday. &#8220;Trying to get a little breathing room between Israel and Lebanon. It has been a long time since the two leaders have spoken, like 34 years. It will happen tomorrow,&#8221; Trump wrote on Truth Social. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,217,341],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326059"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326060,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326059\/revisions\/326060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}