US envoy heading to Israel to press for truce with Hezbollah

The United States and France have spearheaded efforts for a truce in the conflict, which escalated in late September after nearly a year of deadly exchanges of fire across Israel's northern border. Israel expanded the focus of its operations from Gaza to Lebanon, vowing to secure the north and allow tens of thousands of people displaced by the cross-border fire to return home. On Wednesday, Hochstein met for a second time with one of his main interlocutors, Hezbollah-allied parliament speaker Nabih Berri...