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• Gaza truce over, Israel soldier captured, 70 dead in Rafah shelling
• Experts recover human remains at Ukraine crash site despite new fighting
• Doubts surface about India's Modi after trade deal scuppered
• North Korea accuses U.N. Security Council of double standards
• African leaders agree steps to fight runaway Ebola outbreak
• Argentina debt talks must continue after default: U.S. Judge
• Gaza truce collapses in new wave of violence
• Libya guards fire warning shots as crowd tries to storm border
• Argentina's lawyers criticize mediator, judge says 'cool down'
• Microsoft sues Samsung in royalty dispute
• 70 kidnapped migrants rescued in northern Mexico
• Hitchhiking robot thumbs its way across Canada
• U.S. plans to train, arm Ukraine national guard in 2015
• Hamas wing says no info on missing Israeli soldier
• Three new plants protected by the U.S. Endangered Species Act
• Israeli soldier may have been killed in ambush: Hamas armed wing
• Obama on Putin: 'Sometimes people don't always act rationally'
• 2 Americans detained in North Korea seek US help
• NATO must change to better repel Russian threat: UK's Cameron
• Azeri troops killed in clashes with Armenia as tensions flare
• NKorea seeks UN meeting on US-SKorea drills
• Ebola moving faster than control efforts
• Obama, Putin discuss Ukraine, missile treaty
• Olympic champ Adams on verge of gold
• Bolt makes Comm Games debut after Glasgow uproar
• Republicans revive U.S. border security bills to speed deportations
• Investigators probe whether ferry killed humpback whale in Alaska
• Obama chides Putin on Ukraine rebels as experts work at MH17 site
• British ambassador quits Tripoli as fighting spreads
• China bladder trade sending porpoise to extinction
• Top Asian News at 10:00 p.m. GMT
• Moody's upgrades Greece's credit rating
• 2 trains collide in Germany, passengers hurt
• Residents running away from war in eastern Ukraine
• Obama says will be hard to get a new ceasefire in Gaza
• Israeli troops kill two Palestinians in West Bank clashes: medics

Gaza truce over, Israel soldier captured, 70 dead in Rafah shelling Posted: 01 Aug 2014 01:20 PM PDT By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Jeffrey Heller GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel declared a Gaza ceasefire over on Friday, saying Hamas militants breached the truce soon after it took effect and apparently captured an Israeli officer while killing two other soldiers. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called his security cabinet into special session and publicly warned Hamas and other militant groups they would "bear the consequences of their actions". The 72-hour break announced by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was the most ambitious attempt so far to end more than three weeks of fighting, driven by mounting international alarm over a rising Palestinian civilian death toll. U.S. President Barack Obama called for the Israeli soldier's unconditional release and said that after the day's events it would be tough to reinstate a truce.

Experts recover human remains at Ukraine crash site despite new fighting Posted: 01 Aug 2014 11:42 AM PDT By Natalia Zinets and Gabriela Baczynska KIEV (Reuters) - International experts found the remains of more victims of the downed Malaysian airliner in east Ukraine on Friday but fighting nearby between government forces and pro-Russian rebels renewed security concerns around the wreckage. Roads had for days been too dangerous to use because of heavy fighting, frustrating efforts to recover all the victims' remains and push ahead with an investigation. They will... be brought back to the Netherlands for identification," Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said in the Netherlands. "The security situation at the site is unstable and unpredictable." In the latest clashes, separatist forces killed at least 10 Ukrainian paratroopers in an ambush after midnight near Shakhtarsk, one of the closest towns to the wreckage site, the Ukrainian military said.

Doubts surface about India's Modi after trade deal scuppered Posted: 01 Aug 2014 09:13 AM PDT By Sanjeev Miglani and Rajesh Kumar Singh NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to office with a reputation as a business-friendly leader ready to open up one of the world's biggest markets and sweep away the remnants of the country's socialist past. Now potential investors, some of them foreign firms hoping to exploit new opportunities in India's vast consumer market, are scratching their heads after Modi's party walked away from a major deal to reform customs rules and make global trade easier. India shocked trade officials by rejecting the agreement at the 160-member World Trade Organization, one of the group's biggest initiatives since it was set up 19 years ago. New Delhi has since said it did not believe the pact was dead, but insisted that, alongside the so-called trade facilitation agreement, the WTO must find a deal allowing India to subsidize and stockpile food in order to protect the poor.

North Korea accuses U.N. Security Council of double standards Posted: 01 Aug 2014 12:38 PM PDT By Mirjam Donath UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - North Korea accused the United Nations Security Council on Friday of double standards by condemning Pyongyang's recent ballistic missiles launches while ignoring "provocative" joint military exercises between the United States and South Korea. The normally reclusive state held its fourth news conference at the United Nations this year to push for an emergency Security Council meeting on the military exercises, which Pyongyang routinely denounces as preparation for war. North Korea's Deputy U.N. Ambassador Ri Tong Il said Pyongyang wrote to the 15-member council, of which the United States and South Korea are members, on July 21 to request the body take up the issue.

African leaders agree steps to fight runaway Ebola outbreak Posted: 01 Aug 2014 01:39 PM PDT By Saliou Samb CONAKRY (Reuters) - West African leaders agreed on Friday to take stronger measures to try to bring the worst outbreak of Ebola under control and prevent it spreading outside the region, including steps to isolate rural communities ravaged by the disease. The World Health Organization and medical charity Medicins Sans Frontieres said on Friday the outbreak, which has killed 729 people in four West African countries, was out of control and more resources were urgently needed to deal with it. WHO chief Margaret Chan told a meeting of the presidents of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone - the countries worst affected - that the epidemic was outpacing efforts to contain it and warned of catastrophic consequences in lost lives and economic disruption if the situation were allowed to deteriorate. "The presidents recognize the serious nature of the Ebola outbreak in their countries," Chan said after the meeting.

Argentina debt talks must continue after default: U.S. Judge Posted: 01 Aug 2014 04:42 PM PDT By Joseph Ax, Nicholas Brown and Sarah Marsh NEW YORK/BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina cannot turn its back on negotiations with holdout creditors after defaulting on its sovereign debt, a U.S. judge instructed on Friday, just as the country's failure to service a June interest payment was declared a "credit event." In a stern tone, U.S. District Judge Thomas Griesa in New York slammed the decision by Latin America's third-biggest economy to defy his order to pay holdout investors in full and instead default on $29 billion in debt. As Griesa was speaking, a 15-member committee facilitated by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) voted unanimously to call the missed coupon payment a "credit event." The move triggers a payout process for holders of insurance on Argentine debt, which analysts estimate could amount to roughly $1 billion. Argentina's economy ministry said later in a combative statement that Griesa's attitude sought to favor "vulture funds". It has asked Argentina's securities watchdog to investigate whether the litigation against the nation by holdouts was merely the "facade of speculative maneuver".

Gaza truce collapses in new wave of violence Posted: 01 Aug 2014 04:49 PM PDT A humanitarian truce in Gaza lay in tatters Saturday amid a new deadly wave of violence, which left 91 Palestinians dead, and the apparent capture by Hamas of an Israeli soldier. US President Barack Obama called for the soldier to be "unconditionally" released, but also said more must be done to protect Gaza civilians. Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, a member of the eight-strong security cabinet, accused Hamas of being behind the disappearance of the missing soldier and said the group would pay a high price.

Libya guards fire warning shots as crowd tries to storm border Posted: 01 Aug 2014 04:43 PM PDT Libyan border guards fired warning shots Friday to keep back a crowd of people trying to enter Tunisia as they fled the conflict in Libya, a Tunisian army officer said. A Tunisian official was wounded by a stray bullet at the Ras Jdir crossing, where the incident took place and which was shut after the clashes. The Tunisian foreign ministry urged its estimated 50,000 to 60,000 nationals in neighbouring Libya to leave "as soon as possible" because of violence that has raged there since mid-July. The Tunisian army officer said Libyan guards opened fire to push back hundreds of people attempting to force their way across the frontier.

Argentina's lawyers criticize mediator, judge says 'cool down' Posted: 01 Aug 2014 04:42 PM PDT Argentina's lead lawyer told the U.S. judge overseeing its debt dispute with creditors on Friday the government has no confidence in the court-appointed mediator Daniel Pollack after the failure to settle led to a default on sovereign bonds. Jonathan Blackman, Argentina's lead lawyer said a statement released by Pollack on Wednesday was "unfortunate" and "The republic of Argentina believes ... it was harmful and prejudiced to the republic and the impact on the market." On Wednesday Argentina defaulted for a second time in 12 years after the two sides were unable to come to a last minute agreement, thereby leaving in place U.S. District Judge Thomas Griesa's order that Argentina could not pay bondholders who participated in prior exchanges unless it also pays holdouts at the same time.

Microsoft sues Samsung in royalty dispute Posted: 01 Aug 2014 04:39 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) — Microsoft said Friday it is suing Samsung for threatening to stop paying Microsoft royalties for patents behind the Android operating system.

70 kidnapped migrants rescued in northern Mexico Posted: 01 Aug 2014 04:28 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in northern Mexico say security forces have rescued 70 migrants who had been kidnapped and were being held at a house inside a gated community in the coastal city of Madero.

Hitchhiking robot thumbs its way across Canada Posted: 01 Aug 2014 04:25 PM PDT A talking robot assembled from household odds and ends is hitchhiking thousands of kilometers across Canada this summer as part of a social experiment to see if those of its kind can trust humans. Society is "usually concerned with whether we can trust robots," Frauke Zeller, co-creator of the "hitchBot," told AFP. Hollywood movies like "The Terminator" and "The Matrix" often depict machines as enemies of mankind, according to the assistant professor at Toronto's Ryerson University. "This project turns our fear of technology on its head and asks, 'Can robots trust humans?'" Zeller said.

U.S. plans to train, arm Ukraine national guard in 2015 Posted: 01 Aug 2014 04:18 PM PDT The Obama administration has notified Congress of its plans to train and arm the Ukrainian national guard next year, the Pentagon said on Friday, as Washington continues to intensify its response to Moscow's support for rebels in eastern Ukraine. "The Defense Department and State Department have notified Congress of our intent to use $19 million in global security contingency fund authority to train and equip four companies and one tactical headquarters of the Ukrainian national guard as part of their efforts to build their capacity for internal defense," Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby told reporters.

Hamas wing says no info on missing Israeli soldier Posted: 01 Aug 2014 04:15 PM PDT Jerusalem (AFP) - Hamas' armed wing on Saturday said it had no information on the whereabouts of Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin who disappeared in the southern Gaza Strip the previous day.

Three new plants protected by the U.S. Endangered Species Act Posted: 01 Aug 2014 04:14 PM PDT By Verna Gates Bristol Tenn. (Reuters) - A variety of sunflower found in some Southern states and two other rare plants were designated on Friday as endangered species by the U.S. federal government. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the whorled sunflower, Short's bladderpod and fleshy-fruit gladecress for protection under the Endangered Species Act because populations of the three are dwindling to critical levels. We do not have all of the knowledge to know what we can lose and what it is there for," said Tom MacKenzie, spokesman for the Southeast Region of U.S. Fish and Wildlife. The whorled sunflower - sometimes called the giant sunflower - grows in open pastures and along roadsides, mostly in Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee.

Israeli soldier may have been killed in ambush: Hamas armed wing Posted: 01 Aug 2014 04:12 PM PDT The Hamas Islamist group's armed wing in the Gaza Strip said on Saturday it had no clear indication on the whereabouts of an Israeli soldier that Israel has accused them of abducting, adding he may have been killed during an ambush. A statement by the group said it had no contact with militants who were operating in the area in the southern Gaza Strip where Israel said Second-Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, 23, went missing on Friday, and it feared all had been killed.

Obama on Putin: 'Sometimes people don't always act rationally' Posted: 01 Aug 2014 04:05 PM PDT By Roberta Rampton and Thomas Grove WASHINGTON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama phoned Russia's Vladimir Putin to urge him to stop supporting separatists in Eastern Ukraine and seek a diplomatic solution to the crisis that has spurred tough new economic sanctions. Obama told reporters on Friday he believes the United States has done "everything that we can do," short of going to war, to deter Russia from further threats to Ukraine with the sanctions on its energy, defense and financial sectors. "President Putin should want to resolve this diplomatically. Get these sanctions lifted, get their economy growing again, and have good relations with Ukraine," Obama said during a news conference.

2 Americans detained in North Korea seek US help Posted: 01 Aug 2014 04:05 PM PDT PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Two American tourists charged with "anti-state" crimes in North Korea said Friday they expect to be tried soon and pleaded for help from the U.S. government to secure their release from what they say could be long prison terms.

NATO must change to better repel Russian threat: UK's Cameron Posted: 01 Aug 2014 04:05 PM PDT By Andrew Osborn and William James LONDON (Reuters) - NATO must overhaul itself to be able to better defend its members from a potential Russian military threat, British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Saturday, He said the U.S.-led Atlantic alliance had to rethink its ties with Moscow because of the Ukraine crisis. Cameron, who is hosting a NATO summit in Wales next month, said he would use the event to push for the 28-member bloc to review its long-term relations with Russia to reflect the fact that Moscow sees NATO as an adversary.

Azeri troops killed in clashes with Armenia as tensions flare Posted: 01 Aug 2014 03:53 PM PDT Azerbaijan said Friday eight soldiers had been killed in three days of clashes with arch-foe Armenia on the border and near the disputed Nagorny Karabakh region as tensions spiked in the long-running conflict. Azerbaijan's defence ministry said Armenian troops had ramped up their activity in the past few days and attacked Azeri positions. "As a result of clashes over the past three days, eight Azeri troops have died," it said. Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in a protracted conflict over the Nagorny Karabakh region with occasional skirmishes along the front.

NKorea seeks UN meeting on US-SKorea drills Posted: 01 Aug 2014 03:53 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (AP) — North Korea said Friday it has asked for an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting to protest upcoming U.S.-South Korean military exercises, warning the drills increase the danger of war on the Korean peninsula.

Ebola moving faster than control efforts Posted: 01 Aug 2014 03:32 PM PDT CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — An Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 700 people in West Africa is moving faster than efforts to control the disease, the head of the World Health Organization warned as presidents from the affected countries met Friday in Guinea's capital.

Obama, Putin discuss Ukraine, missile treaty Posted: 01 Aug 2014 03:26 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama pressed Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday for a diplomatic path out of Ukraine's struggle with Moscow-backed pro-Russian separatists. Putin countered by calling U.S. and European economic sanctions against Russia counterproductive.

Olympic champ Adams on verge of gold Posted: 01 Aug 2014 03:19 PM PDT Olympic champion Nicola Adams hopes her big fight experience can give her an advantage in Saturday's women's flyweight final at the Commonwealth Games. The English boxer booked her place in the final following her win against Canada's Mandy Bujold in Friday's semi-finals. The 31-year-old says she will use the experience she gained on the way to being crowned Olympic champion in 2012 to help her win the first ever women's Commonwealth Games title. Standing between Adams and a gold medal is Northern Ireland's Michaela Walsh after she saw off Pinki Rani of India in their semi-final.

Bolt makes Comm Games debut after Glasgow uproar Posted: 01 Aug 2014 03:19 PM PDT GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — If Scots were offended by Usain Bolt they didn't show it on Friday as the Jamaican sprint star made his Commonwealth Games debut.

Republicans revive U.S. border security bills to speed deportations Posted: 01 Aug 2014 03:16 PM PDT By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives sought to patch over another deep rift and pass revised border security legislation on Friday, hoping to persuade voters they are acting to tackle the growing crisis over child migrants from Central America. Tougher language in the twin bills would make it easier to deport migrant children, add money to deploy National Guard troops at the border with Mexico and largely reverse President Barack Obama's policy of deferring action against minors brought to the United States illegally by their parents. The changes were intended to satisfy conservative House Republican lawmakers who withdrew their support on Thursday amid a revolt instigated by Senator Ted Cruz, the Tea Party firebrand from Texas.

Investigators probe whether ferry killed humpback whale in Alaska Posted: 01 Aug 2014 03:15 PM PDT By Steve Quinn JUNEAU Ala. (Reuters) - Authorities in Alaska are investigating whether a state ferry killed a 30-foot (9-meter), 25-ton (22.6-tonne) humpback whale in a collision near Kodiak Island, or whether the giant mammal was already dead when it was struck, officials said on Friday. Kate Wynne, a marine mammal specialist for the University of Alaska Sea Grant Program, said there was no doubt the whale died from being hit by a sea-going vessel.

Obama chides Putin on Ukraine rebels as experts work at MH17 site Posted: 01 Aug 2014 03:13 PM PDT US President Barack Obama told Russia's leader Friday of his "deep concerns" about Moscow's increased support for separatists in Ukraine as international experts finally gathered more remains at the downed MH17 flight's crash site. In a telephone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin Obama also expressed "his preference for a diplomatic solution to the crisis," the White House said. Separately, the Kremlin said the two leaders had agreed that the current standoff in Ukraine -- where pro-Russian rebels are battling government forces -- was "not in the interest of either country." The tragedy of the Malaysia Airlines plane which was downed two weeks ago killing all 298 people on board has again focused world attention on the conflict in Ukraine.

British ambassador quits Tripoli as fighting spreads Posted: 01 Aug 2014 03:05 PM PDT London (AFP) - Britain's ambassador to Libya said Friday he had "reluctantly" decided to leave the embassy in Tripoli due to local fighting, as the security situation deteriorates.

China bladder trade sending porpoise to extinction Posted: 01 Aug 2014 03:02 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (AP) — Gillnet fishing in the upper Sea of Cortez has pushed the vaquita marina, the world's smallest porpoise, to the brink of extinction, according to an environmental report published Friday which states fewer than 100 of them are believed left.

Top Asian News at 10:00 p.m. GMT Posted: 01 Aug 2014 03:02 PM PDT KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan (AP) — Hundreds of people who fled from gas pipeline explosions in Taiwan's second-largest city returned to their homes Friday after authorities said there was no more risk of blasts like the series that ripped apart streets overnight, killing 26 people and injuring 267. With clean-up work underway in the 2-square kilometer (1-square mile) area, investigators were turning to the task of determining the cause of the blasts, the industrial city's worst such disaster in 16 years.

Moody's upgrades Greece's credit rating Posted: 01 Aug 2014 03:02 PM PDT ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Moody's ratings agency late Friday upgraded Greece's government bond rating, predicting a gradual decline of its massive national debt.

2 trains collide in Germany, passengers hurt Posted: 01 Aug 2014 02:58 PM PDT BERLIN (AP) — Two cars of a train tipped over following a collision late Friday near a station in southwestern Germany, authorities said, injuring a number of passengers.

Residents running away from war in eastern Ukraine Posted: 01 Aug 2014 02:43 PM PDT At a rebel checkpoint in war-torn eastern Ukraine, camouflaged gunmen on a deserted road hurriedly wave through cars with hand-written signs reading "children" taped to their windscreens. The former engineering student said those fleeing came from the towns in northeastern Ukraine currently experiencing the most deadly bombardments and shortages as government troops close in on pro-Russian rebels. "Yesterday a bus drove past here from Shakhtarsk.

Obama says will be hard to get a new ceasefire in Gaza Posted: 01 Aug 2014 02:42 PM PDT By Steve Holland and Mark Felsenthal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Friday that it will be difficult to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza after the latest truce fell apart but he strongly defended Secretary of State John Kerry for his failed diplomatic drive. Obama's comment at a White House news conference suggested the limited impact that diplomacy is having as Israel tries to dismantle Hamas tunnel networks in Gaza and the Palestinian militants fight back. Three civilians have been killed by Palestinian rockets in Israel.

Israeli troops kill two Palestinians in West Bank clashes: medics Posted: 01 Aug 2014 02:41 PM PDT Israeli forces killed two Palestinians in clashes in the occupied West Bank on Friday, Palestinian medical officials said. The violence erupted when a few thousand Palestinians took to the street to protest Israel's military operation in the Gaza Strip. An Israeli military spokeswoman said troops shot one man in the city of Tulkarm after violence got out of control, with protesters throwing stones and gasoline bombs at soldiers. Fighting flared between Israel and militant groups in Gaza again on Friday after a three-day truce collapsed shortly after taking effect.

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