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UN Human Rights Commissioner Volker Türk has warned of another major conflict in the Middle East. “I am extremely worried about the escalating situation between Lebanon and Israel,” the Türk told the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday. Türk called for the fighting to stop and for everything to be done “to avert a full-scale war”. There have been daily military confrontations between the Israeli army and the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon, as well as other groups in the border area between the countries, since the beginning of the war in the Gaza Strip more than eight months…

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