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  • Livni: 'No real option for cease-fire now'

    Date: 2014-07-22 11:52:28 GMT - Israel - World - SN:40 - ID:839939

    GAZA CITY, July 22 (MENA) - Justice Minister Tzipi Livni dismissed on Tuesday the possibility of an imminent halt in fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, adding that the Israeli army ground incursion in the Strip was impossible to ....

  • How to break Hamas’s stranglehold on Gaza - report

    Date: 2014-07-22 11:38:13 GMT - USA - World - SN:38 - ID:839936

    WASHINGTON, July 22 (MENA) - US columnist David Ignatius said on Tuesday that he heard a more ambitious strategy for Gaza from Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, a retired chief of Israeli military intelligence who now heads the country’s leading think tank, ....

  • Japan urges Russia to stop assisting separatists in Ukraine

    Date: 2014-07-22 11:34:42 GMT - Japan - World - SN:37 - ID:839940

    TOKYO, July 22 (MENA) - Japan urged Russia on Tuesday to "immediately stop" assisting pro-Moscow separatists in Ukraine whose involvement is suspected in the downing of a commercial plane last week over the eastern part of Ukraine. "Assistance ....

  • Egypt, Palestine, Jordan ,AL ambassadors in Russia hold press conference on Gaza

    Date: 2014-07-22 11:31:57 GMT - Russia - World - SN:34 - ID:839941

    MOSCOW, July 22 (MENA) – Egypt, Palestine, Jordan and Arab League ambassadors in Moscow will hold on Tuesday a press conference. The conference will tackle the developments in the situation in the Gaza Strip. (MENA) MR/RG ....

  • Suicide bomb attack near Kabul airport kills four, including foreign advisers

    Date: 2014-07-22 10:42:26 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:30 - ID:839717

    KABUL, July 22 (MENA) - A Taliban suicide bomb attack outside Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan has killed at least four people, including three foreign advisers and an Afghan interpreter, ABC News reported. The nationalities of the ....

  • Indonesia presidential candidate Prabowo rejects election process

    Date: 2014-07-22 10:19:55 GMT - Indonesia - World - SN:21 - ID:839651

    JAKARTA, July 10 (MENA) - Indonesian presidential election candidate Prabowo Subianto has said he is withdrawing from the election process, alleging massive fraud. The results of the hotly-contested poll are due in the next few hours. Early ....

  • Japan, Mongolia to announce free trade deal

    Date: 2014-07-22 09:18:12 GMT - Japan - World - SN:17 - ID:839610

    TOKYO, July 22 (MENA) - Japan and Mongolia will announce a free trade agreement between the two countries when their leaders meet later on Tuesday, Kyodo quoted Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj as saying. "We are in the stage of ....

  • Cambodian Political Rivals Say Agreement Reached

    Date: 2014-07-22 09:17:57 GMT - Cambodia - World - SN:16 - ID:839612

    PHNOM PENH, July 22 (MENA) - Prime Minister Hun Sen and Cambodian opposition parties said Tuesday they agreed on a joint solution to end a political deadlock and the opposition's yearlong boycott of the national legislature. Hun Sen, opposition ....

  • Typhoon Kills 11 in Vietnam; China Deaths up to 33

    Date: 2014-07-22 09:04:29 GMT - China - World - SN:12 - ID:839519

    BEIJING, July 22 (MENA) - A typhoon that barreled into northern Vietnam killed at least 11 people and left several missing, state media said, while in China the death toll from the strongest storm to strike the country's south in four decades rose ....

  • US warns against travel to Israel, West Bank, Gaza

    Date: 2014-07-22 08:44:14 GMT - USA - World - SN:10 - ID:839456

    WASHINGTON, July 22 (MENA) – The United States on Monday warned Americans against traveling to Israel and the Gaza Strip, urging them to postpone any visits amid the current conflict. "The US Department of State warns US citizens of the risks of ....

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