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    Iranian Plane Crashes After Takeoff, Killing At Least 39
    Aug10

    Iranian Plane Crashes After Takeoff, Killing At Least 39

    TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A regional passenger plane assembled in Iran crashed Sunday while taking off from the capital, killing 39 and injuring another nine onboard, according to a senior transportation official and state media. The IrAn-140 operated by domestic carrier Sepahan Air crashed in a residential area near Tehran’s Mehrabad...

    Ukraine Tells Defiant Rebels To Surrender In East Ukraine
    Aug10

    Ukraine Tells Defiant Rebels To Surrender In East Ukraine

    KIEV (Reuters) – A Ukrainian military spokesman on Sunday dismissed a call for a ceasefire by a separatist leader, saying this could only take place once rebels had shown “white flags” and surrendered. Meanwhile the separatists stepped back from their earlier talk of a possible ceasefire and said the Ukrainian army had first to...

    Ukraine: No cease-fire until rebels surrender
    Aug10

    Ukraine: No cease-fire until rebels surrender

    Fighting raged Sunday in eastern city of Donetsk despite rebels’ call for cease-fire. …read more Source: USA...

    1 killed, 10 injured as fighting rages in Ukraine
    Aug10

    1 killed, 10 injured as fighting rages in Ukraine

    Fighting is raging in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, one day after pro-Russian rebels there said they were ready to agree to a cease-fire in order to prevent a “humanitarian catastrophe.” …read more Source: Miami...

    1 killed, 10 injured as fighting rages in Ukraine
    Aug10

    1 killed, 10 injured as fighting rages in Ukraine

    On Saturday, rebel leader Aleksandr Zakharchenko called for a cease-fire, in a move that could be aimed at increasing international pressure on Ukraine to allow in a Russian aid mission. …read more Source: San Francisco...

    Fighting rages in rebel-held city in eastern Ukraine despite rebel request for a cease-fire
    Aug10

    Fighting rages in rebel-held city in eastern Ukraine despite rebel request for a cease-fire

    Fighting is raging in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, one day after pro-Russian rebels there said they were ready to agree to a cease-fire in order to prevent a “humanitarian catastrophe.” One person was killed and 10 injured in shelling that started early Sunday morning and continued into the day, city council spokesman Maxim...

    Ukraine rebels want ceasefire
    Aug10

    Ukraine rebels want ceasefire

    Ukrainian troops have surrounded the rebel-held city of Donetsk and the insurgents are willing to accept a ceasefire in order to stave off a humanitarian catastrophe, a top rebel leader announced Saturday. …read more Source: New York Daily...

    Ukraine president says he’ll consider aid mission as Obama, Merkel warn Russia not to intervene
    Aug10

    Ukraine president says he’ll consider aid mission as Obama, Merkel warn Russia not to intervene

    Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said he will consider allowing an international aid mission into rebel-held areas of eastern Ukraine after pro-Russian separatists called for a case-fire to avert a “humanitarian catastrophe.” …read more Source: FOX...

    Hillary Clinton: ‘Failure’ to Help Syrian Rebels Led to the Rise of ISIS
    Aug10

    Hillary Clinton: ‘Failure’ to Help Syrian Rebels Led to the Rise of ISIS

    President Obama has long-ridiculed the idea that the U.S., early in the Syrian civil war, could have shaped the forces fighting the Assad regime, thereby stopping al Qaeda-inspired groups—like the one rampaging across Syria and Iraq today—from seizing control of the rebellion. In an interview in February, the President told me that...

    Ukraine rebel leader asks for aid, cease-fire
    Aug10

    Ukraine rebel leader asks for aid, cease-fire

    Ukraine’s rebels are surrounded and ready to agree to a cease-fire to prevent a “humanitarian catastrophe,” the insurgents’ new leader said Saturday as conditions deteriorated in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk, artillery thundering through deserted streets. At least one person was killed and 18 wounded in shelling that...