BEIRUT (Reuters) - Israeli bombs killed at least 40 civilians in south Lebanon and Hizbollah launched its longest-range rocket attack of the war as world powers inched closer to a deal at the United Nations to end the fighting.
The main division on a draft U.N. Security Council resolution is between France and the United States. Paris wants existing U.N. peacekeepers and Lebanon's army to monitor a truce, while Washington wants the Israeli army to stay in southern Lebanon until an international force arrives.
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