Israel and Palestine have agreed to extend a temporary ceasefire in Gaza by 24 hours to allow more time for negotiating a lasting truce, a Palestinian official has said.
India has joined Brazil and South Africa in calling upon the international community to support the US-sponsored Annapolis West Asia peace conference in order to assist the peace dialogue between Israel and Palestine.
"The conference will signal broad international support for the Israeli and Palestinian leaders' courageous efforts and will be a launching point for negotiations leading to the establishment of a Palestinian state and the realization of Israeli-Palestinian peace," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said in Washington on Wednesday.
Modi visited the cemetery on the last day of his visit to Israel.
The withdrawal will take effect on December 31, 2018. The US will remain a full member of the Paris-based UNESCO until then.
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Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed led Jamat-ud-Dawah has set up various new fronts and established camps all over Pakistan to collect donations and sacrificial animals in the name of helping Kashmiris in India.
The Jordanian King's visit comes nearly three weeks after Modi travelled to Jordan as part of his trip to West Asia, including Palestine.
The memorial is the first-of-its-kind built by India in France after the country's Independence. The announcement to construct the memorial was made by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj during her last visit to Paris in June 2018.
Concluding his whirlwind tour of Silicon Valley, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday left for New York where he will have a packed schedule that includes talks with US President Barack Obama.
"Pakistan and India, I think, have come to a stage where we have realised that a military solution is no longer the answer. Therefore, we are moving towards peace."
Violence against journalists took centre stage in 2014 with 66 reporters killed, says a report by Reporters Without Borders. While number of deaths may have fallen, violence against reporters has become more savage, and kidnappings have skyrocketed, the report says.
Strongly condemning the Israeli attacks, he said the campaign was a continuation of the Jewish state's "war and genocide against the Palestinian people" and it has the full backing of the US and other imperialists.
'Secretiveness and the element of surprise in announcing decisions marks the Modi style of diplomacy. From being a voluble politician, he became a reticent statesman... But the diplomatic dance is performed on thin ice and his adroitness is still to be proved,' says Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin arrived on Monday on an eight-day visit to India, the first by any Israeli President in nearly two decades.
India can play an important role in pushing ahead the peace process as it is an influential country due to the relations it has with the key players in the world.
Yielding to opposition demand, the government on Thursday agreed for a discussion in the Rajya Sabha on Gaza situation on Monday but not before proceedings of the day were washed out over the issue.
Cautioning that West Asia today stood at a crossroads, India Monday said largescale extra regional military presence and rising constituency of radical religious groups in the region was a matter of grave concern.
Kushner, in a meeting with the Russian envoy to the US Sergey Kislyak, discussed the possibility of setting up a secret and secure communications channel between the then transition team and the Kremlin using Russian diplomatic facilities in the US, The Washington Post reported.
Prime Minister Modi is visiting Palestine, UAE and Oman from February 9 to February 12.
Noted Arab scholar and diplomat Dr Clovis Maksoud has said India's unwavering support to the Palestine cause and the Iraqi union in the face of its strategic military alliance with Israel has eroded the political foundation of the Indo-Arab ties.
Indian national football team slumped to its worst-ever FIFA rankings, 171, in the 209-nation chart.
Pakistan's Foreign Secretary denied that the current meeting with Ariel Sharon was being held due to outside pressure.
India has a sizeable population of Sunni Muslims, and the Intelligence Bureau fears more young men will be drawn to the ISIS.
'No society becomes democratic merely by holding an election,' says T N Seshan.
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Abbas arrived in New Delhi on Thursday on a two-day visit. This is his first top-level political contact with the Indian leadership after he was elected to the key post, earlier held by Yasser Arafat.
Fifteen doctors, including specialists from Jordan, Tunisia and Egypt, examined the ailing Palestine leader before taking the decision to send him abroad.
A comprehensive discussion was held on the Kashmir issue at the ongoing six-day World Social Forum meet, which is focusing on problems faced by the South Asian region, the Palestine issue, Iraq and the Iran nuclear standoff.
This is the first explicit claim of responsibility for the blasts, which claimed 56 lives, by the terrorist group headed by Osama bin Laden.
'How does relief in the form of citizenship to a persecuted Hindu in Bangladesh put the citizenship of an Indian Muslim in danger?', asks Dr Sudhir Bisht.
The Palestinian side is said to have committed to check operations against Israeli targets and Jerusalem in turn would put a halt to all military actions as long as the Palestinian commitment held.
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