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South Sudanese President Salva Kiir speaks to the media at a press conference in Juba, South Sudan on Monday, January 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin)
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Israeli security officers make their ways past buring tires as at least 10,000 Palestinian protesters marching against Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip clash with Israeli soldiers and border police at the Israeli Qalandiya checkpoint, between Jerusalem and Ramallah, on 25 July 2014. (AFP/Abbas Momani)
Crunch time for Gaza truce talks as death toll passes 800
Gaza/Jerusalem, Reuters—US Secretary of State John Kerry pressed regional proxies to nail down a Gaza ceasefire on Friday as the civilian death toll soared, threatening to spread Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed to the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem. With Israel and...Caption:
Plaque outside Air Algerie office in Paris. (AFP Photo/Stephane de Sakutin)
Bad weather likely cause of fatal Air Algerie crash: French officials
Paris, Reuters—Poor weather was the most likely cause of the crash of an Air Algerie flight in the West African state of Mali that killed all 116 people on board, French officials said on Friday. Investigators at the scene of the crash in northern Mali concluded the...Caption:
File photo of the City Mall in Amman, Jordan. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Jordanian shopkeepers brace for Eid spending spree
Amman, Asharq Al-Awsat—Jordanian business owners are ready to meet shoppers’ expectations during the upcoming Eid Al-Fitr festival, when Muslims traditionally wear new clothes and exchange gifts, even though people seem worried by the financial demands of Eid and the...Caption:
epa04328719 A destroyed Al qsa martyer’s mosque after an Israeli air strikes in Gaza during a military operation in the east of Gaza City, 24 July 2014. At least 23 Palestinians were killed before dawn 24 July 2014 on the 17th day of the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip amid reports that both sides […]