Blinken says progress made on Gaza ceasefire deal over past month and a half

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US secretary of state Antony Blinken has said the United States has made progress on a Gaza ceasefire deal over the past month and a half.

He said 15 paragraphs had been agreed out of 18, but remaining issues needed to be resolved.

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