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Biden announced Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire -- a significant Middle East development

NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to Jake Sullivan, President Biden's national security adviser, about the U.S. role in securing a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon after months of fighting.

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Rob Schmitz is NPR's international correspondent based in Berlin, where he covers the human stories of a vast region reckoning with its past while it tries to guide the world toward a brighter future. From his base in the heart of Europe, Schmitz has covered Germany's levelheaded management of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise of right-wing nationalist politics in Poland and creeping Chinese government influence inside the Czech Republic.