President Donald Trump is meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the White House for talks focused on trade and defense. Special envoy Steve Witkoff and the U.S. president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner are in Israel Monday to shore up the tenuous ceasefire that’s holding in Gaza , a day after the fragile deal faced its first major flareup with Israel threatening to halt aid transfers after it said Hamas militants had killed two soldiers. More than a week has passed since the truce proposed by Trump began with the aim of ending two years of war .

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