NPR News: 04-18-2026 9PM EDT

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. It's day two of a ten-day ceasefire to pause the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. The agreement seems to be holding amid several incidents of violence. And Piers Katlonsdorf has more from Beirut. Forty six year old Abir Muhammad al Masri has been living in a tent in a parking lot with her six kids for nearly. seven weeks She says she'd much rather be in their apartment in the southern suburbs, but I don't trust the ceasefire, she said. It's more of a truce than a ceasefire. We can't go Many of the more than one million people displaced in Lebanon during this war have headed back to the south, where much of the fighting was happening, despite warnings not to. Occupying about ten percent of the country after destroying whole villages to create what it calls a buffer zone to keep Hezbollah from firing rockets into Israel. Katlansdorf, MBR News, Beirut. Pope Leo says he has no interest in debating President Trump, who's repeatedly hit out at the Pontiff, apparently angry over Leo's advocacy for peace with Iran. But the Pope says his remark this week about the world being ravaged by hand aful of tyrants wasn't about Trump. The talk that I gave at the prayer meeting for peace a couple days ago was prepared two weeks ago, well before the President ever commented on myself and on the message. Elected officials are mak