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A Palestinian child runs across debris from a destroyed house, following an overnight Israeli strike in Beit Lahiya, Gaza, on July 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Israeli tanks dig in at Gaza frontier as Palestinian toll tops 300

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 19, 2014 | Middle East

Gaza and Jerusalem, Reuters—Israeli soldiers in tanks and bulldozers dug in across a mile-wide strip of eastern Gaza on Saturday as Palestinian officials said military strikes had pushed the mostly civilian death toll past 300. The military said its engineers were...

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Members of the White Army, a South Sudanese anti-government militia, attend a rally in Nasir on April 14, 2014.
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South Sudan army says kills over 60 soldiers loyal to rebel leader

by Mustafa Sirri | Jul 19, 2014 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—South Sudan’s army has said that more than 60 soldiers loyal to rebel leader and former Vice-President Riek Machar have been killed. In a statement to Asharq Al-Awsat, the spokesman for the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), Philip Aguer,...

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A policeman inspects the site of the crashed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 near the village of Rozsypne, Ukraine, on Friday, July 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Obama says downing of plane a “wake-up call” for Europe over Ukraine conflict

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 19, 2014 | World

Hrabove and Washington, Reuters—US President Barack Obama said the downing of a Malaysian jetliner in a Ukrainian region controlled by Russian-backed separatists should be a “wake-up call for Europe and the world” in a crisis that appears to be at a...

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Jalal Talabani addresses a press conference in Baghdad in this March 2, 2009, file photo.

Talabani to return to Iraq as Kurds try to nominate successor

by Dalshad Abdullah | Jul 19, 2014 | Middle East

Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—Ailing Iraqi President Jalal Al-Talabani will return to his country on Saturday after a year and a half in Germany receiving medical treatment, his Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party said Friday. The 80-year-old, who has been receiving...

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A relative mourns during the funeral of Rani Abu Tawila, a Palestinian who was killed in an Israeli attack, on July 18, 2014 in Gaza city. Israel warned it could broaden a Gaza ground assault aimed at smashing Hamas’s network of cross-border tunnels, as it stepped up attacks that have killed more than 260 Palestinians. […]

Opinion: A Crime Overlooked

by Diana Moukalled | Jul 19, 2014 | Opinion

When an Arab deputy in the Israeli Knesset, Ahmad Al-Tibi, was asked by a Jewish member not to read out the names of those killed by the Israeli Army this week, Tibi responded by saying: “Shut up while I am reading names of people you killed with missiles. Are...