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UN's Ban to visit Israel to push for Gaza ceasefire
Date: 2014-07-19 15:01:25 GMT - Israel - International - SN:43 - ID:835417
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will visit Israel on Saturday to to bring about an end of hostilities, the body's undersecretary Jeffrey Feltman announced in a special Security Council meeting convened to discuss the crisis. Feltman ....
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MH17 disaster creates dilemma for Putin over backing Ukraine's rebels
Date: 2014-07-19 11:46:51 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:32 - ID:835013
The shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 has confronted Vladimir Putin with a dilemma he had sought to avoid: to continue to support the separatist insurgency in Ukraine in the face of a storm of international outrage, or cut the rebels off ....
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Cameron, Obama discuss Malaysia flight disaster
Date: 2014-07-19 07:55:23 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:19 - ID:834600
UK Prime Minister David Cameron discussed with US President Barack Obama over the phone the downing of a Malaysian jetliner in eastern Ukraine. A spokesman for Cameron said "The Prime Minister spoke to President Obama this evening about the MH17 ....
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UN chief travels to the Middle East on Saturday
Date: 2014-07-19 07:51:49 GMT - United Nations - International - SN:17 - ID:834595
Assistant UN Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman said that UN chief Ban Ki-moon will visit the Middle East on Saturday. Feltman told the UN Security Council, the Secretary-General wants to express his solidarity with the ....
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EU 'very concerned' over escalation of violence in Gaza, urges ceasefire
Date: 2014-07-19 07:47:25 GMT - United Nations - International - SN:14 - ID:834584
The European Union said on Friday it was "very concerned" over the escalation of violence in the Gaza Strip and reiterated a call for an immediate ceasefire, The Guardian reported. "We are very concerned about the escalation in the Gaza Strip ....
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Putin, Rouhani discuss Gaza situation
Date: 2014-07-19 07:22:03 GMT - Russia - International - SN:1 - ID:834543
Russian president Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hassan Rouhani. The conversation took place at Iran’s initiative. The two presidents discussed the escalation in the crisis underway in ....
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British PM discusses with world leaders Malaysia Airlines flight crisis
Date: 2014-07-18 18:27:30 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:27 - ID:834180
British Prime Minister David Cameron called on Friday the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon to discuss the response of the United Nations and to call for strong UN backing for, and independent international support to, the investigation being led by ....
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UN Security Council calls for "full, thorough" investigation into Malaysia Airlines crash
Date: 2014-07-18 18:25:15 GMT - United Nations - International - SN:24 - ID:834175
The UN Security Council has approved a statement calling for “a full, thorough and independent international investigation” of a downed Malaysian Airlines plane in eastern Ukraine on Thursday. The council, in its statement, called on all ....
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Putin, Rouhani urge end of dispute in Gaza
Date: 2014-07-18 18:23:42 GMT - Russia - International - SN:23 - ID:834173
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani have discussed in a telephone conversation the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Ria Novosti reported. "Both sides underlined the need to end the military confrontation as ....
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Erdogan says Israel threatens world peace
Date: 2014-07-18 18:21:51 GMT - Turkey - International - SN:21 - ID:834169
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in statements on Friday that Israel threatens peace in the world and the Middle East. He wondered how the UN would contribute to world peace. During an International conference of Muslim ....
