Trump speaks with Turkey’s leader, backs regional stability Lebanon to file UN Security Council complaint

President Donald J. Trump has spoken with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey.

The White House says Trump in the call on Saturday emphasized the common commitment of the United States and Turkey to work together to increase regional stability.

According to Turkish presidential sources, Erdogan and Trump spoke about the importance of their nations’ strategic partnership and bilateral relations. They also agreed to meet in New York during the U.N. General Assembly. is providing ground and air support.

Lebanon’s Foreign Ministry says it will file an “urgent complaint” against Israel with the United Nations Security Council.

Lebanon said in a statement Saturday that Israel violated its air space when it conducted an airstrike against a Syrian government installation on Thursday.

Israeli jets struck an installation that former Israeli military and intelligence officials said was producing weapons possibly bound for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, Israel’s chief rival in the region. The Syrian army said at the time that two soldiers were killed.

Hezbollah is part of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s government, though Lebanon officially remains neutral over the neighboring Syrian civil war. River, once held the immense Rossiya Hotel, a 1960s Soviet hulk that once was the world’s largest hotel with some 3,000 rooms.

The new park was designed by the American architecture practice Diller Scofidio and Renfro, which called the park’s concept “wild urbanism.” Khokhar says initially two people drowned Saturday after enjoying a picnic at the beach and the others died trying to rescue them.

He said rescuers have transported the bodies of the 12 “ill-fated picnickers” to a Karachi hospital.

Mohammad Tahir Iqbal, an official at Pakistan’s largest private Edhi ambulance service, said at least seven of the dead belonged to the same family.

Such incidents have occurred before at Karachi’s beaches where people often disregard warnings from authorities.

Karachi is the capital of Pakistan’s southern Sind province.