EU to hold emergency talks on Lebanon escalation

Brussels, Belgium: European foreign ministers will hold emergency talks Monday on the situation in Lebanon, Brussels said, as Israel presses on with a...

Brussels, Belgium: European foreign ministers will hold emergency talks Monday on the situation in Lebanon, Brussels said, as Israel presses on with air strikes after killing Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

A spokesman said the bloc's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell had convened a video meeting at 1500 GMT "to discuss the EU's response to the latest escalation in Lebanon".

International powers are scrambling to prevent the conflict between Israel and the Hezbollah group from spiralling into a broader conflict.

The 27-nation European Union has so far struggled to speak with one voice -- or exert much influence -- to curb the violence that has roiled the region over the past year.

Israel on Monday carried out its first air strike in the heart of Lebanon's capital Beirut since the outbreak of the war in Gaza last year, killing four people.