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UNITED NATIONS China president on Saturday pledged billions in aid and said Beijing will forgive debts due this year in an effort to help the world poorest nations, as world leaders begin to seek the trillions of dollars needed to help achieve sweeping new development goals.President Xi Jinping spoke at a global summit that on Friday launched the non-binding goals for the next 15 years.Xi and others spoke as the U.N. gathering began to shift focus from development to the high-powered General Assembly meeting that begins Monday with speeches by Xi, President Barack Obama, Russian President Vladimir Putin and
stanley cup Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on the first morning alone.Obama and Putin will meet Monday. The prospects for any meeting between Obama and Rouhani, even a handshake, remain
stanley cup ed unclear.Rouhani arrived Saturday and immediately was encouraged by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to have Iran step up to help achieve political settlements to the grinding conflicts in Syria and Yemen, where Iran has influence.
stanley cup The Islamic republic is a top ally of the Syrian government of President Bashar Assad and supports Shiite Houthi rebels who have held parts of Yemen for months.Iran president said in his address that the recent deal with world powers on its nuclear program has created suitable conditions for regional and international cooperation, including on protecting the environment.As world leaders met quietly behind the scenes, others Yidt U.S. sending 560 more troops to Iraq as Mosul push intensifies
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip AP 鈥?Israel and the Islamic Jihad militant group in the Gaza Strip agreed to an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire late Saturday, ending five days of intense fighting that left 33 Palestinians, including at least 13 civilians, dead. Two people in Israel were killed by rocket fire.The cease-fire took effect just after 10 p.m., with a last-minute burst of rocket fire and Israeli airstrikes stretching several minutes past the deadline announced by Egypt.While the calm brought a sense of relief to Gazas more than 2 million people and hundreds of thousands of Israelis who had been confined to bomb shelters in recent days, the agreement did nothing to address the underlying issues that have fueled numerous rounds of fighting between Israel and Palestinian militant groups in the Ga
af1 za Strip.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu office put out a statement thanking Egyptian President Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi
adidas campus for his efforts to restore calm. Egypt frequently acts as a broker between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza.The statement quoted Netanyahu national security adviser, Tzachi Hanegbi, as saying that quiet would be answered with quiet but that Israel would respond
stanley cup to further threats with whatever needs to be done. In Gaza, Islamic Jihad spokesman Tareq Selmi said Israel had agreed to halt its policy of targeted strikes on the group leaders. Any stupidity or assassination by the occupation will be met with a response and the Z
