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Windsor Johnston· Host0:15

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. President Trump is praising what he calls early signs of success from a new tentative agreement with Iran. Speaking at Joint Base Andrews last night, Trump pointed to increased shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway for global oil trade.

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Those ships are flowing out of the Hormuz Strait like nobody's ever seen before, actually. There were a lot of them, about seven hundred of them, and they're pouring out. The oil is all over the place.

Windsor Johnston· Host0:48

The agreement signed this week reopened the strait and gives Washington and Tehran a sixty-day window for further negotiations. But those talks are on hold as diplomats try to preserve a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. The two sides agreed to a pause in heavy fighting in southern Lebanon, but there have been reports of continued violence overnight. NPR's Jawad Rizqallah reports before the latest ceasefire took effect Friday, an Israeli airstrike killed two paramedics in the region.

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Jamil Bitar, a paramedic, said he arrived at the site of an earlier strike in Habush on Friday morning after an earlier team had rescued three survivors. [on phone] A second