BEIRUT -- At least 20 people were killed and 66 others injured on Saturday in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the Lebanese capital Beirut, Lebanon's Ministry of Public Health reported.

The air raid at dawn targeted the eight-story building in the Basta Fawka neighborhood, destroying it and damaging the buildings nearby, the ministry said, noting Civil Defense teams are still working to remove the rubble in search of victims. (Lebanon-Israeli Airstrike-Death Toll)

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NICOSIA -- European Union member states are obliged to implement an arrest warrant against Israeli and Hamas leaders issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC), EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell said here on Saturday.

"The states that signed the Rome convention are obliged to implement the decision of the court. It's not optional," said Borrell after a workshop in Nicosia organized by the "Two-State Coalition for Israel and Palestine," an Israeli-Palestinian activist organization. (Cyprus-EU-ICC)

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ISLAMABAD -- Three terrorists were killed in two military operations in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military said.

The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistani military, said on Saturday that security forces clashed with terrorists in Khyber and South Waziristan districts of the province. (Pakistan-Counter Terrorism) Enditem

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