Lebanese President Michel Aoun signs the US-brokered deal setting a maritime border between Lebanon and Israel, at the presidential palace in Beirut.
Mandatory Credit:	Dalati Nohra/Lebanese Government/AP

Lebanese President Michel Aoun signs the US-brokered deal setting a maritime border between Lebanon and Israel, at the presidential palace in Beirut.
Mandatory Credit: Dalati Nohra/Lebanese Government/AP

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Israel and Lebanon finalize Mediterranean border agreement, opening up potentially rich oil and gas fields

Israel and Lebanon finalized an agreement defining their maritime borders in the Mediterranean on Thursday, President Joe Biden announced on Twitter, inking a United States-brokered deal at the United Nations mission on the land border between the countries.