These are the top headlines from Arab News, the Middle East’s leading English-language daily, at 6pm GMT.

• Trump hails ‘very good meetings’ as indirect Iran talks in Qatar conclude
• Bahrain seeks emergency UN Security Council meeting after Iranian attacks
• Lebanon’s Aoun defends US-backed framework, says it preserves state authority and rights
• Israel defense minister says troops to stay ‘indefinitely’ in Lebanon, Syria, Gaza
• US signs agreement to build permanent embassy in Jerusalem

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