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A fire following Israeli bombardment on an area of south Lebanon. Photo: JALAA MAREY Flares and shelling have hit border towns within Lebanon, strikes hit suburbs in Lebanon's capital Beirut, and one hit a building in the large Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh, near the Lebanese city of Sidon, sources have told Reuters. In the Syrian capital of Damascus a well-known Syrian television anchor was among three people killed by Israeli strikes, the country's state news agency said. The US has been told "limited" raids on Hezbollah over the border have begun, in what may be the beginning of a widely expected ground invasion. The Israel military said in a statement that its targets were in villages close to the border that posed "an immediate threat to Israeli communities in northern ...

By Timour Azhari, Reuters Locals and rescue teams at work in a damaged building following an overnight Israeli airstrike on the Ain al-Helweh refugee camp on the outskirts of Sidon City in Lebanon. Photo: AFP/ Mahmoud Zayyat Israeli paratroopers and commandos have begun operations in neighbouring Lebanon, Israel says The ground raids are 'limited, localised and targeted', Israel Defence Forces say Flares and shelling have been reported in Lebanese border towns Airstrikes hit Beirut southern suburbs overnight Israel targeted a Palestinian Fatah movement commander in a refugee camp in Lebanon, Palestinian officials say In Syria, Israeli strikes killed 3 civilians, the country's state media says Israel says its troops have launched raids inside Lebanon on Tuesday, starting its widely ...

Photo: AFP / RICHARD A. BROOKS The online gaming provider PlayStation Network is suffering a global outage. All services have been impacted since 2.21pm, according to the PlayStation Network status page, including account management, gaming and social, PlayStation Video and PlayStation Store. The outage means people are not able to sign in or create an account for the PlayStation Network, launch games, apps or network features, get PlayStation Video content or buy products in the PlayStation Store. Photo: Supplied PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and online platforms are affected. One PlayStation user RNZ spoke to said all game and store pages loaded blank and his console appeared unable to connect to the server. The PlayStation Network said it was wor...