Gaza Fighting Continues As Both Sides Reject Others' Ceasefire Announcements -- The Guardian
Death toll rises to more than 1,030 as Unicef says 218 children have been killed, two-thirds of them under the age of 12
Fighting between Hamas and Israel continued on Sunday despite a series of ceasefire announcements by both sides, each of which was rejected by the other amid mutual blame and recrimination.
There was no sign of a longer-term deal to end the military confrontation, which began three weeks ago on Tuesday and which has claimed about 1,100 lives, the vast majority of them Palestinian civilians. The US secretary of state, John Kerry, returned to Washington at the weekend after his efforts to forge a ceasefire agreement between the two sides failed.
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MIDDLE EAST
Iran General: We will hunt down Israelis house to house.
Turkish flotilla group vows new Gaza cruise, this time with military escort.
Syrian army retakes gas field from fighters.
Syria's Assad prays as his troops suffer high toll. Assad in Eid appearance as violence rages.
Police find 15 corpses in Baghdad in bloody start to Muslim Eid holiday.
Emirates to stop flying over Iraq after MH17 disaster.
ASIA
Taliban winning Afghanistan war, claims Mullah Mohammed Omar.
Afghan vote audit stalls amid daily arguments.
Afghanistan may have lost track of more than 200,000 weapons.
Islamist militants accused of ambush in Philippines. Abu Sayyaf gunmen kill 21 Filipinos in road attack.
Thai soldier among four killed in clash in Muslim south.
North Korea Threatens Nuclear Strike on White House and Pentagon.
Aqunio urges support as scandal threatens to hurt Philippine economy.
Pakistan mob kills woman, girls, over 'blasphemous' Facebook post.
AFRICA
Libya now nation at risk with weak U.S. influence; embassy closes as chaos grows.
Libya warns of 'humanitarian disaster' over fuel fire.
Libya: western countries urge citizens to leave as civil war intensifies.
Cameroon reviewing military strategy after Boko Haram attacks.
Air Algerie AH5017: Hollande vows to bring bodies to France.
Ebola forces Liberia to shut border crossings. Nigeria isolates Lagos hospital where Ebola victim died.
EUROPE
Ukraine claims more territory as fight intensifies with rebels.
MH17 crash: Dutch PM rules out military mission to secure site.
New EU sanctions against Russia could be applied within days, No 10 signals. Lavrov says Russia will not respond in kind to Western sanctions.
Fitch affirms BBB rating for Russia, outlook negative.
UK economy back at pre-crisis level.
Russia should not be deprived of right to host 2018 World Cup - Cameron.
Georgian prosecutors charge ex-president Saakashvili.
Thousands ignore ban in Paris to protest Israeli offensive in Gaza.
France offers asylum to Iraqi Christians. France offers asylum to Mosul's Christians.
Costa Concordia wreck enters Genoa port for scrapping.
AMERICAS
Argentina sending team to New York for last-minute debt talks. Argentina braced for sovereign debt default.
Illegals demand representation in White House meetings.
Japanese PM opens LatAm tour with Mexico energy deals.
Brazilian central bank frees up $13bn to boost economy. Economy in gutter, Brazil more expensive than Europe.
Thousands of Argentine football fans stay on in Brazil after World Cup defeat to avoid economic worries back home.
Aruba frees Venezuelan official Hugo Carvajal wanted by US.
Two California wildfires destroy 10 homes.
TERRORISM/THE LONG WAR
Islamic State destroys tombs, mosques in Mosul.
ISIS’s black flags are flying in Europe.
ISIS: Rapid transformation from militia to state (Commentary).
ECONOMY/FINANCE/BUSINESS
Lloyds Bank fined $370 million for rigging Libor interest rates.
Court orders Russia to pay $50bn to Yukos shareholders.
Zillow buys Trulia for $3.5 billion.
"Economy In Gutter, Brazil More Expensive Than Europe"
ReplyDeleteIn the late 1970s, food was cheap but everything else was more expensive.
Wit more population pressure and farmland tuned into city, I could see food prices going up (The farmers markets 'were' great. Don't know now.).