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European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday that any temporary agreement between the United States and Iran must be followed by broader negotiations addressing Tehran’s nuclear stockpile and other key issues. Speaking in Islamabad after talks with Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, Kallas stressed the need for a sustainable and peaceful resolution to tensions in West Asia.

Israel’s government ordered strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut on Monday, a day after its ground forces reached their deepest point in Lebanon in 26 years and as Hezbollah fired rockets at northern Israel including the outskirts of coastal city of Haifa.

A powerful explosion at a building reportedly storing mining explosives in northeastern Myanmar killed more than 45 people and injured around 70 others on Sunday, according to rescue workers and local media reports.