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A fragile, 72-hour cease-fire in the Gaza Strip held for a second day on Wednesday, as Israel and Hamas delegates prepare for talks in Cairo aimed at extending the truce.

The reported deaths of 40 children from minority groups who were displaced from Sinjar city and district by armed violence are of extreme concern.

Japan used an annual defense paper on Tuesday to issue a fresh warning about what it sees as China's destabilizing actions in the region.

The Jabalia Elementary Girls School serving as a shelter for Palestinians in Gaza was hit by shells on 30 July 2014.

Ahmet Anneess Sahweel, General Secretary of GUPT.

Authorities in Bangladesh say an overloaded ferry carrying at least 200 passengers has sunk on a river in central Bangladesh.

Most Philippine workers in Libya are staying in the war-torn country, despite Manila ordering them to leave. The workers say they are afraid of losing their jobs.

Palestinian families seek shelter at an UNRWA school after evacuating their homes north of the Gaza Strip.

Gerd Krumeich, professor at Germany’s Duesseldorf University and honorary chairman of the Military History Working Group, in an interview with Deutschlandfunk radio July 25, drew the parallels between the current strategic situation and the events that led, one century ago, to World War I. It’s like 1914 but with nuclear weapons, he said, although he played down the threat by insisting that world leaders have learned the lesson.