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[2018-07-17 06:55]

Cease-fire holds after day of intense Gaza fighting

[2018-07-16 07:26]

GAZA - Both Hamas and the Islamic Jihad movements announced on Saturday night that the efforts to reach an agreement with Israel on getting back to calm and end an escalation of violence in the Gaza Strip "had succeeded".

Haiti's prime minister resigns amid fuel subsidies row

[2018-07-16 07:26]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Haitian Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant resigned on Saturday as he faced a no-confidence vote after a move to lower fuel subsidies prompted days of violent protests in the impoverished Caribbean nation.

Italy: France, Malta offer to take quarter of 450 migrants

[2018-07-16 07:26]

ROME - France and Malta have agreed to take 50 migrants each out of 450 stranded at sea on two EU border agency vessels, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Saturday after pressing his European peers to keep their promise to share the burden.

Norway to increase defense spending

[2018-07-16 07:26]

OSLO - Norway on Saturday reconfirmed its commitment to gradually increase defense spending to 2 percent of GDP in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization during a visit by US Secretary of Defense James Mattis to the Nordic country.

Rouhani says US isolated on Iran sanctions and will 'fail'

[2018-07-16 07:26]

TEHERAN - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that the US hostilities toward the Islamic republic will fail.

Trump immigration remarks draw ire

[2018-07-16 07:26]

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump's lament this week that immigration is "changing the culture" of Europe echoed rising anti-immigrant feelings on both sides of the Atlantic, where Europe and the US are going through a demographic transformation that makes some of the white majority uncomfortable.

Russia calls for cooperation on nerve agent case

[2018-07-16 07:26]

LONDON - UK police said on Saturday that search teams have found over 400 items as part of the investigation into the poisoning of two Britons by the nerve agent Novichok but searches will likely take many more weeks as officers seek further evidence.

Military might marks Bastille Day

[2018-07-16 07:26]

PARIS - Fighter jets streaked over Paris on Saturday as part of a massive military parade in a "demonstration of controlled force" on France's national day, due to be followed by a street party if "Les Bleus" win the World Cup.

DPRK, US in talks over remains

[2018-07-16 07:26]

SEOUL - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the United States held talks on Sunday to discuss the repatriation of remains of US soldiers killed during the Korean War, Yonhap news agency said citing unnamed sources.

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[2018-07-16 07:26]

Trump releases 'nice' letter from Kim

[2018-07-14 07:08]

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump on Thursday revealed a letter from the top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, in which Kim Jong-un expressed optimism for future DPRK-US relations.

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