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Israeli military post in the disputed Shebaa Farms with Lebanon seen from southern Lebanon. Lebanon's powerful Iran-backed Hezbollah movement said it had fired "large numbers of artillery shells and guided missiles" at Israeli positions in a contested border areas "in solidarity" with Hamas. IMAGES
The UN human rights chief Volker Türk decries the lack of accountability for the 2020 Beirut port blast, urging an international probe into the massive explosion that destroyed swathes of the city, in a speech to the United Nations Human Rights Council. "It may therefore be time to consider an international fact-finding mission to look into human rights violations related to this tragedy," says Volker Türk. SOUNDBITE
The head of the International Energy Agency urges the United States and China to put aside their 'tensions' and align on climate change, warning in an interview that geopolitical fractures risked holding back the clean energy transition. Speaking at the African Climate Summit in Nairobi, Fatih Birol told AFP that these international rifts, partly stoked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, are “becoming more and more pronounced”. SOUNDBITE
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urges Kosovar and Serbian leaders to ease tensions, warning they were putting aspirations of European integration at risk. "We call on the governments of Kosovo and Serbia to take immediate steps to de-escalate tensions," Blinken tells reporters at NATO talks in Oslo. IMAGES
Images from the Lebanon-Israel border, after rockets fired from Lebanon targeted northern Israeli towns and Israel retaliated with strikes, following clashes in Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa, Islam's third-holiest site, which drew warnings of retaliation from around the region. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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