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Rubio urges Lebanon to resist Hezbollah pressure over seized explosives

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio pressed Lebanese President Joseph Aoun not to return a truckload of explosives to Hezbollah after the group tried to smuggle them into Beirut last week, according to a State Department official and another source with knowledge of their call.

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Both outlets frame the story around Rubio pressing Lebanon over Hezbollah-linked weapons, and both mention state control of arms. Axios is the only one that adds the detail about a truck full of explosives and says Rubio urged Lebanon not to return it to Hezbollah, while Al Jazeera instead foregrounds Lebanon’s president reaffirming a commitment to bring all arms under state control.

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