Israel's Military Might Is Tested by Hamas' Stamina: Experts
H amas may be militarily outnumbered and outgunned by Israel, but it has the stamina and training to turn the Gaza ground invasion into a protracted urban war, experts warned Tuesday.
Six days after Benjamin Netanyahu ordered ground forces across the border into Gaza, the death toll has climbed to more than 600 Palestinians and 29 Israeli soldiers - more than twice as many military casualties as in the last Gaza ground war of 2009.
Hopes that the invasion by Israeli Defense Forces would swiftly end the tit-for-tat aerial exchange of Palestinian rockets and Israeli missiles look to have been dashed as gaps between the sides remain wide.
Nigerian president vows to free missing girls |
President Goodluck Jonathan met for the first time with parents of some of the 217 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram.
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President Goodluck Jonathan has met for the first time some of the parents of 219 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls and dozens of classmates who managed to escape from their Boko Haram captors.
Jonathan assured them on Tuesday of his determination that those still in captivity "are brought out alive," presidential spokesman Reuben Abati told reporters after the meeting.
Some of the girls described their escapes and Jonathan gave assurances that the education of the girls and their still-captive classmates would not suffer in any way, Abati said.
"Mr. President reassured them of the federal government determination and his personal determination to ensure that the girls that are still in captivity are brought out alive. He made it clear that is the main objective of the government," the Associated Press reported Abati as saying.
Jailed al-Jazeera journalists guided by ‘devil’, says Egyptian court
Australian reporter Peter Greste and colleagues accused of taking 'advantage of the noble profession of journalism’
An Egyptian court that jailed three al-Jazeera journalists for alleged ties with Islamists said on Tuesday that "the devil guided" the group to spread false news defaming the country.
Australian journalist Peter Greste, Egyptian-Canadian Mohamed Fadel Fahmy and Egyptian producer Baher Mohamed were convicted in June of aiding the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood and spreading false news that portrayed Egypt as being in a state of "civil war".
Greste and Fahmy received seven-year terms, while Mohamed was jailed for 10 years, in a case that sparked international outrage.
Eleven defendants tried in absentia, including one Dutch and two British journalists, were given 10-year sentences.
China bubonic plague death: Town of 30,000 placed in quarantine after man dies sparking 'Black Death' outbreak fears
According to Xinhua, no one inside the city is currently believed to have contracted the plague, though 151 people who may have come into contact with the man have been placed under direct observation.
Brazil’s World Cup goals still not reached even after final whistle
São Paulo Letter: the party is over but Brazilians are waiting for promised benefits
For several years during the build-up to the World Cup, Brazilians exasperated at the regular inconveniences suffered in the course of daily life here would exclaim to each other: “Imagine during the cup!”
Funnily enough the one thing no one imagined beforehand was the national team being humiliated on the pitch. In contrast to preparations elsewhere the football side of things was the one area in which most Brazilians were relatively confident going into the event.
How wrong everyone was.
The tournament has been and gone and the games went ahead in stadiums finished or not and the football, Brazil’s historic meltdown excluded, was great and getting around the country’s congested cities was no worse than usual despite a record influx of foreign visitors and a string of unfinished World Cup infrastructural projects that were promised as justification for hosting the event.
US border crisis overwhelms social services – in Central America
According to the Guatemalan attorney general, 2,030 minors have been deported from the US and Mexico so far this year. The government is struggling to keep track of returnees and provide needed support.
GUATEMALA CITY — On a rainy afternoon in Guatemala City, a handful of boys and girls between the ages of 4 and 16 are among those escorted off an official flight from the US. The older kids stare intently at the floor as they notice the waiting TV cameras. A 4-year-old girl tightly grasps her older sibling's arm. Each child has just been deported from the United States after entering the country illegally.
The deportees are ushered into a waiting area where they are greeted by a representative from the office of Guatemala’s attorney general. While some kids have relatives waiting at the airport to take them home, others are put into state care. According to Guatemala’s Ministry of Social Welfare, 800 child deportees are currently in government shelters, yet to be reunited with family.
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