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BEIRUT, May 26: An Israeli airstrike on a village in eastern Lebanon killed 12 people, state media said on Tuesday, as an Israeli official said the military had called up more troops to Lebanon. The strike hit the village of Mashghara in the Bekaa Valley late Monday, according to Lebanons state-run National News Agency. It came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he had authorised more intensive strikes targeting the Hezbollah militant group across Lebanon. The Israeli mili

SEOUL, May 26: North Korea launched a close-range ballistic missile and other weapons toward the sea on Tuesday, South Koreas military said, days after the leaders of Russia and China voiced their opposition to Western pressures on North Korea. The missile fired from Jongju, a city near the Norths west coast, flew about 80 kilometres (50 miles), South Koreas Joint Chiefs of Staff said. North Korea launched other kinds of projectiles, it said, but didnt elaborate. South Korean media, citing [] Th