U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called an emergency meeting of the Security Council on Sunday after an Israeli airstrike on a Lebanese village killed at least 56 people, most of them children.The meeting was called, at the request of Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora, to seek an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon. After three weeks of war between Israel and Hezbollah, the council has yet to take a stance on the fighting, in part because the United States has not called for a cessation of hostilities....
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