UN Officials Urgently Call for Lebanon Cease-Fire as Middle East on ‘Brink of Catastrophe’

As Israel followed up its remote bombings of communications devices in Lebanon with airstrikes on Beirut, the United Nations Security Council held an emergency session Friday during which officials urgently called for an immediate cease-fire and warned that the Middle East is on “the brink of catastrophe.” “We risk seeing a conflagration that could dwarf even the [...]