Erdogan Promises New Era

ANKARA: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed Sunday a “new era” of reconciliation in Turkey after winning a “historic” victory in presidential elections.

Bangladeshi ferry tolls at 125 fresh lives

DHAKA, Bangladesh: Families of scores of people presumed dead after their ferry capsized in central Bangladesh accused authorities Tuesday of launching a feeble rescue effort and leaving their loved ones trapped inside the vessel for more than 24 hours.

ISIS aims at Baghdad

BAGHDAD: Using secret tunnels built by Saddam Hussein and rough terrain to outfox Iraqi troops, ISIS insurgents are getting dangerously close to Baghdad with the support of heavily armed Sunni tribesmen, Iraqi security and intelligence officials said.

Israeli PM failed in Gaza: Hamas

GAZA CITY, Palestine: Palestinian resistance faction Hamas said Tuesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has failed to achieve his objectives from a deadly military onslaught on the Gaza Strip.

"Netanyahu has totally failed in Gaza," Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said in a press release.

" Hamas still has the capability to act against Israel," he said, giving no further details.

Earlier Tuesday, Netanyahu said that the Israeli army had conducted "a complicated operation in the middle of tough fight," in Gaza, hours after a 72-hour cease-fire proposed by Egypt went into effect between Israel and Palestinian factions.

Netanyahu also said that his government has no "100 percent guarantee" that all tunnels linking Gaza to Israel were destroyed.

"But we did everything to complete the task," he added.

The Israeli government and Palestinian factions have endorsed an Egyptian proposal for a three-day cease-fire in the Gaza Strip starting Tuesday.

Israel has pulled out its troops from---------------------more

Censured over shelter deaths, Israel declares seven-hour Gaza truce

Israel said it would unilaterally hold fire in most of the Gaza Strip on Monday to facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid and allow some of the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by an almost four-week-old war to go back to home.The announcement, made first to Palestinian media, met with suspicion from Gaza's dominant Hamas Islamists and followed unusually strong censure from Washington at the apparent Israeli shelling on Sunday of a U.N.-run shelter that killed 10 people..---------Detail

Quake hits southwest China:At least 367 dead

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck southwestern China on Sunday, killing at least 367 people and leaving 1,881 injured in a remote area of Yunnan province, and causing thousands of buildings, including a school, to collapse.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake registered at a shallow depth of less than 1 mile (1.6 km). Chinese state media said it was felt most strongly in Yunnan as well as in the neighboring provinces of Guizhou and --------------------------------Detail

Israel's Offensive attack after declaring leave of war ?

Israel on Sunday declared dead a soldier feared abducted by Hamas Islamist militants in the Gaza Strip and said it would continue to fight even after the army completes destroying cross-border tunnels used by Palestinian fighters to attack its territory.------------------