Middle East lens: Israel-Morocco normalize relations, Lebanon charges 4 over deadly explosion

Israel and Morocco said Thursday they have agreed to normalize relations. As part of the deal, the US agreed to recognize Morocco’s long-disputed claim over the Western Sahara region. Also, a prosecutor in Lebanon investigating the Beirut port blast in August that killed more than 200 people has charged caretaker Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab and three government ministers with negligence. Host Carol Hills speaks with Kareem Chehayeb, a Beirut-based journalist and nonresident fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy.

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