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US secretary of state begins visit in Jordan as fears grow Israel could expand Gaza conflict to Lebanon
The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has returned to the Middle East for the fourth time in three months amid increasingly frantic international efforts to prevent Israel’s war against Hamas from spreading throughout the region.
Recent intensifying violence between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, increasing attacks by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis on commercial shipping in the Red Sea, and strikes by Tehran-linked groups on US bases in Iraq, have created an increasingly febrile atmosphere across the Middle East, energised by the war in Gaza.
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