10 July 2014 Last updated at 07:26
Deaths rise in Israeli air strikes on Gaza
Up to 20 people have been killed in the deadliest night of Israeli air raids on Gaza since its current offensive began, Palestinian sources say.
Most occurred in attacks on a house and a cafe in the south, they say.
Militants in Gaza continued firing rockets into Israel on Thursday, with sirens sounding over southern towns.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned the situation in Gaza was "on a knife-edge", urging Israel and Palestinian militants to end hostilities.
The deaths overnight take the number of Palestinians killed since Israel launched its Operation Protective Edge on Tuesday to at least 70, Palestinian officials say.
Israel says its targets have been militant fighters and facilities including rocket launchers, weapons stores, tunnels and command centres.
Spain arrests 32 suspected members of Italy’s Camorra crime organisation
Police raids 14 homes and businesses in Madrid
Spanish police have arrested 32 suspected members of Italy’s Camorra crime group they say were involved in drug trafficking, extortion, fraud and money laundering, the interior ministry said yesterday.
In raids on 14 homes and businesses across Madrid, police seized €1.13 million in cash, properties worth about €8 million and firearms.
Police did not specify the nationality of those arrested, suspected of supplying drugs to their partners in Naples, home of the Camorra, one Italy’s biggest mafia groups.
Opinion: Nothing to celebrate
Three years ago South Sudan became an independent state. Despite civil war and humanitarian disaster, the government insists on celebrating. It's an affront to the people of South Sudan says Daniel Pelz.
Thousands of people dead, more than one and a half million displaced, a growing threat of famine. Celebrating a birthday in these circumstances is just cynical. If South Sudan's leaders have achieved anything in the last three years, it is that they have managed to take a country with huge potential and govern it into the ground. The population of South Sudan deserves better than President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar, who purport to be fighting for the good of their people, and in reality are only interested in power and the revenue the country's oil can bring them – regardless of the fact that hundreds of thousands of people could die in the process.
For anyone who witnessed South Sudan's emergence as an independent state, the current situation is heartbreaking.
Maliki accuses Kurds of harboring Sunni militants
In remarks likely to worsen Baghdad's already difficult relationship with the Kurds, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Wednesday the Kurdish self-rule region was harboring Sunni militants.
BAGHDAD — The ethnic and sectarian tensions that threaten to tear Iraq apart flared Wednesday as the prime minister accused the Kurdish self-rule region of harboring the Sunni militants who have overrun much of the country, and 50 bodies were discovered dumped in a village south of Baghdad.
It was not clear who the men were or why they were killed, but such grisly scenes were common during the darkest days of the Iraq war, and the deaths raised fears of another round of sectarian bloodletting. Many of the victims were bound, blindfolded and shot in the head.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's allegations, made in his weekly televised address, are likely to worsen Baghdad's already thorny relationship with the Kurds, whose fighters have been battling the insurgents over the past month.
Hoping to project power, China finds itself alone
By JACK CHANG
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Nearly three decades after Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping famously instructed his diplomats to "be good at maintaining a low profile and never claim leadership," a new generation of rulers has made it clear that they're ready to shed the humility and show off their country's rising military and political power.
From Southeast Asian waters that may hold billions of barrels of oil to uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, China has stepped into territorial disputes with neighbors including Japan, South Korea and the Philippines — and in some cases, some would say, provoked them. At the same time, Beijing has pledged to build what it says will be a new security framework for Asia, replacing U.S.-dominated alliances that have defined the post-World War II period.
Ukrainian pilot charged with aiding murder |
Nadezhda Savchenko, captured by rebels last month, charged in Russia with abetting murder of two Russian journalists. |
A Ukrainian air force pilot who was captured by separatist rebels last month has been charged in Russia with abetting the killing of two Russian journalists, Russian officials have said.
Ukraine has been rocked by fighting between pro-Russia rebels and government forces for more than three months.
Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin, employees of a Russian state-owned TV channel, died in June after being hit by mortar fire while on assignment in the Ukrainian city of Luhansk.
Russia's Investigative Committee said in a statement on Wednesday that 31-year-old pilot Nadezhda Savchenko is suspected of tipping off Ukrainian troops as to the whereabouts of the journalists as well as other unspecified "civilians" who were in a rebel-held area.
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