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UN rights chief warns Israel against airstrikes on Gaza
UN Human Rights chief Navi Pillay has warned Israel that the targeting of civilian homes is a violation of international humanitarian law, after more than 100 Palestinians were killed in four days of bombardment by Israeli forces. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights also expressed deep concern in a statement on Friday about the prospect.. More -
Toll mounts as Israel steps up Gaza air raids
Israel has continued its bombardment of Gaza but failed to stop rocket fire across the border, as the US offered to help negotiate a truce. At least 98 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed in Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials said on Friday. Hundreds of others have been wounded. Among those killed were.. More -
Sudan-Egypt ties tested amid diplomatic push
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's efforts to reach out to the neighboring regime in Sudan are being thwarted by increasing evidence that Khartoum is funneling weapons from Iran into North Africa. On June 27, Sisi arrived in the Sudanese capital to sit down for talks with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. The visit was the first of its kind.. More -
Scores killed as Israeli jets bombard Gaza
Syria's Western-backed opposition National Coalition has elected Hadi al-Bahra, chief negotiator at the Geneva peace talks, as its new president following a three-day meeting in Istanbul, the coalition said. Bahra, a US-trained industrial engineer, will replace Ahmad Jarba, who has served the maximum two six-month terms. Like Jarba, Bahra has close.. More -
Syrian opposition body elects new president
Syria's Western-backed opposition National Coalition has elected Hadi al-Bahra, chief negotiator at the Geneva peace talks, as its new president following a three-day meeting in Istanbul, the coalition said. Bahra, a US-trained industrial engineer, will replace Ahmad Jarba, who has served the maximum two six-month terms. Like Jarba, Bahra has close.. More -
Israel steps up deadly Gaza Strip offensive
Israel's intense bombardment of the Gaza Strip has killed at least 27 people and wounded 130 others, Palestinian officials have said. Israel on Tuesday said it was ready for a long-term offensive against Hamas in the Palestinian territory after a surge in rocket attacks on Israeli towns. "We are preparing for a battle against Hamas which will.. More -
Sisi defends Egypt's fuel subsidies reduction
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el Sisi has defended his recent decisions to partially scrap subsidies on fuel, calling them a necessary "bitter pill". In a nationally televised speech on Monday, Sisi said he could not delay such decisions even if it cost him support because "the dangers are great" for Egypt's economy. He approved.. More -
US begins to destroy Syria's chemical weapons
The US container ship Cape Ray has started to neutralize chemical materials that were once part of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's weapons arsenal, the US Defense Department has said. The ship, located in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea, began processing about 600 metric tons of chemical weapons and the raw materials that could be.. More -
Rockets from Gaza follow Israeli air strikes
Israeli officials say the army will carry out more air raids on the Gaza Strip overnight and call up 1,500 military reservists, as the country moves closer to its third major offensive in the Palestinian territory in six years. Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Lerner, a spokesman for the Israeli army, tweeted late on Monday that the military had launched "Opera.. More -
Six arrested over Palestinian teen's killing
Israeli police have arrested six people in connection with the murder of a Palestinian teenager who Palestinians say was killed in revenge for the murder of three teenage settlers last month. The suspects appeared before a magistrate in the central city of Petah Tikva for an arraignment on Sunday. Police said the six, several of them minors, are from.. More -
Israel launches deadly airstrikes in Gaza
Israeli airstrikes have killed at least nine Palestinian fighters from the armed wings of Hamas and Fatah, making it their highest single death toll since a 2012 cross-border war. Two of the men from the Al Hussinin brigade, a military group belonging to Fatah, were targeted by drone strikes east of the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza on Sunday,.. More -
US urges Israel to probe teen beating
The United States has called for speedy investigation of an incident in which a 15-year-old American of Palestinian descent appeared to have been badly beaten by Israeli paramilitary police during riots in East Jerusalem. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki confirmed that the teen, Tariq Khdair, was being held by Israeli authorities in Jerusalem.. More -
Ukraine regains control of rebel stronghold
Ukrainian forces have raised the national flag over the pro-Russian rebels' main stronghold of Slovyansk after flushing them out of the eastern industrial city, according to the country's defence minister. The announcement came hours after the interior minister announced that a large number of pro-Russian separatists had fled the city after attacks.. More -
Libya declares oil crisis over
Libya's acting Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni said the government had reached a deal with a rebel leader controlling oil ports to hand over the last two terminals and end a blockade that crippled the OPEC nation's petroleum industry. "We have successfully reached an agreement to solve the oil crisis. We have received today Ras Lanuf and.. More -
Israel bombs Gaza after settlers found killed
The Israeli air force has launched a series of air raids on the Gaza Strip, hours after the bodies of three settlers were found in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli military said it launched 34 raids in the early hours of Tuesday, in response to 20 rockets fired into Israel from the strip. A Palestinian was also shot dead on Tuesday in an Israeli.. More
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