UN demands swift probe into Israeli strikes on Lebanon

"Lebanon is becoming a key flashpoint," UN rights chief Volker Turk told reporters in Geneva. "I call for an immediate cessation of hostilities." Lebanon has been engulfed by the expanding Middle East war, after the Iran-backed group Hezbollah on Monday fired missiles at Israel to avenge the death of Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei. Israel responded with waves of air strikes, and Thursday night it escalated its response by hitting Beirut's southern suburbs where Hezbollah is active -- after...