 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will press Israel and Lebanon on Sunday to strike a deal on an international force to end a 19-day-old war, after Hizbollah threatened to strike deeper into Israel. Rice, in the region for a second time in a week on a trip that puts her reputation as a mediator on the line, said she hoped for agreement on conditions for a ceasefire to be outlined in a U.N. resolution that could be tabled as early as Tuesday."I expect the discussions to be difficult, but there will have to be give and take," Rice told reporters. She will have a second day of talks with Israeli leaders on Sunday.In a further sign of intensifying diplomacy to end the war, France -- emerging as the international force's potential leader -- drew up a draft U.N. Security Council resolution that would call for an immediate truce and prepare for the peace mission....
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