Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday called on his security forces in the West Bank to avoid any escalation of violence with Israel, the official news agency (WAFA) reported.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday welcomed the formal reinstatement of President Michel Kafando and of the transitional institutions in Burkina Faso a week after a military takeover in the West African country, calling on "all national stakeholders to exercise restraint."
The presidents of Senegal, Togo, Benin and Nigeria were to travel to Burkina Faso's capital city late Tuesday to help resolve the political stalemate following a military coup last week, a security source told Xinhua.
The Israeli security services arrested on Monday a far-right Jewish settler for his alleged involvement with a far-right militant organization, a spokesperson for the Shin Bet Security Agency confirmed to Xinhua.
The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) postponed on Sunday the final match of the Palestinian Soccer Cup after Israel banned West Bank footballers from playing in Gaza.
The Russia-proposed idea of the Trans-Eurasian Belt Development and China's Silk Road Economic Belt Initiative are economically complementary, Vladimir Yakunin, head of the Russian Railways said here Wednesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Moscow was determined to develop friendly relationship with all countries, "both in the West and the East."
In recent years, the West has conjured up fantastic theories like "neocolonialism", "China is exploiting Africa's resources," etc., effectively throwing mud at China over its win-win cooperation with Africa.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry next week in the Italian capital Rome, amid an upcoming Palestinian bid to the UN to demand an end to the Israeli occupation in the West Bank.
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon said on Wednesday that the United States is blocking construction in the West Bank settlements, but he hopes the delay is "temporary" because the Obama administration "won't be around forever."
Russia is ready to cooperate with the United States on the basis of noninterference in domestic affairs and equality, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.
Civil society organizations, political parties and armed forces have been submitted, alternately at the end of Sunday morning, their nominations for the leader of the transitional period in Burkina Faso to the militaries authorities in power in the West African country.
According to the latest figures released by the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 10,414 people have been infected with Ebola and nearly half of them have died.
A United Nations envoy on Thursday called on African Union (AU) and member countries to come up with more efforts that would completely defeat Ebola disease which continues to kill thousands of people in West Africa.
U.S. President Barack Obama said Wednesday he is "cautiously optimistic" about the Ebola situation in the United States, as his government announced a new program that will actively monitor for 21 days every person coming from West African nations hard hit by the deadly virus.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday warned that the Ebola epidemic in West Africa could reach 5,000 to 10,000 cases per week by the first week of December.
Botswana on Monday said that the deadly Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa is a public health catastrophe and "a serious setback to the achievement" of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), calling on the international community to do its best to save the West African region from this crisis.
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