Israel and Hamas have said they have accepted a 12-hour humanitarian window in Gaza.
The truce is due to begin at 0800 local time (0500 GMT). Efforts to negotiate a seven-day ceasefire are still ongoing.

Earlier US Secretary of State John Kerry said he was still confident of a longer ceasefire, despite media reports that Israel had rejected one proposal.

More than 800 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and 36 Israelis have died since the conflict started on 8 July.

A spokesman for Hamas, the Islamist group that controls Gaza, Sami Abu Zuhri said there was "national consensus on a humanitarian truce... for 12 hours on Saturday".

The IDFI(srael Defense Forces) later confirmed the truce on Twitter, but said it would "continue to locate and neutralise terror tunnels".

"We will respond if terrorists choose to exploit this time to attack IDF personnel or fire at Israeli civilians," it said in a statement.

The news came shortly after Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon warned that ground operations in Gaza could soon be broadened "significantly".
Mr Yaalon told soldiers: "You need to be ready for the possibility that very soon we will instruct the military to significantly broaden the ground operation in Gaza".

Hamas has previously said it would not agree to any long-term truce that did not lead to an end to Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip.

The British ambassador to the UN, Mark Lyall Grant, said he was disappointed at the failure to reach a longer-term truce.

But he welcomed Saturday's 12-hour truce, saying it could "open up a little bit of space to work on a more sustainable ceasefire."
West Bank clashes

According to the UN, Israeli air strikes killed a further 68 people in Gaza on Friday, bringing the total number of Palestinian dead to about 870.

There were also clashes during protests in the West Bank which left at least five Palestinians dead.

Palestinians in the West Bank had been taking part in a "Day of Rage" against Israel's military operation in the Gaza Strip.

JUL 05 - KIEV, UKRAINE,  Fighting in eastern Ukraine left at least nine Ukrainian soldiers dead Friday, as government troops pressed their offensive against pro-Russian insurgents using heavy artillery and combat jets and prospects of a truce appeared dim.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Ukraine was ready to conduct another round of talks between representatives from Ukraine , Russia and the rebels on Saturday, but didn't name their venue. Two previous rounds of such negotiations held during a 10-day cease-fire have yielded no visible progress, but they brought the warring parties together for the first time.

Moscow strongly pushed for extending the truce and holding more talks in an apparent hope to negotiate a settlement that would allow it to secure a degree of influence over the neighbor. The continuing fighting is putting more pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has been facing increasingly angry nationalist demands to send troops to help the insurgency — a move that would inevitably trigger crippling Western sanctions.

Ukraine 's National Security Council chief Andriy Parubiy said Friday that Russia was massing troops near the Ukrainian border and claimed that it let insurgents attack the Ukrainian border posts from its side. The statements could not be independently verified.

The two neighbors, who share a 2,000-kilometer (1,250-mile) border that is unmarked and unguarded outside of a few checkpoints, have been trading claims and counterclaims ever since Ukraine began fighting pro-Russia separatists in April.

The government said nine troops were killed and 13 others were wounded in Friday's fighting in the east, according to the Interfax news agency. It did not elaborate on where or how the deaths occurred.

Valentyn Nalyvaychenko, the head of Ukraine 's SBU security service, told journalists that over the past four days 20 Russian tanks or armored vehicles had illegally crossed the border to take part in the insurgency.

Ukraine says Russia is arming and supporting the separatists, a charge that Russia denies. For its part, Moscow has repeatedly accused Ukrainian troops of firing shells that landed on the Russian side and on one occasion last month hit a Russian border post, wounding one customs officer. Russian border guards said 10 artillery shells flew from the Ukrainian side Friday, but no one was injured.

It is nearly impossible to prove or dispel the claims from the opposing sides, since the fighting consists of intermittent clashes between small units with no fixed front line and it is deadly dangerous for journalists and other observers to travel around. Five journalists have been killed covering the conflict and several teams of observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe have been kidnapped by rebels.

Russia has proposed hosting both OSCE observers and Ukrainian officers at its border checkpoints to prove it wasn't fueling the mutiny.

The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday accused Poroshenko's government of dragging its feet on holding another round of negotiations to resume a truce and accused it of using cluster munitions against civilians.

Parubiy said government forces were attacking rebel positions in eastern Ukraine with artillery and planes and that 17 villages had been recaptured since a unilateral cease-fire expired Monday. He said Ukrainian forces now controlled 23 of the 36 local regions within the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces that have declared independence.

Andrei Purgin of the separatist Donetsk People's Republic dismissed the government's report.

"Maybe they occupied 17 villages of some sort, but there wasn't a single militia fighter there," he said.

Insurgents in Luhansk said Friday they have killed 125 Ukrainian troops, destroyed nine armored vehicles and downed three combat aircraft since Wednesday.

Both sides' claims of enemy losses have proven exaggerated in the past, however.

Friday's fighting centered on the outskirts of Slovyansk, a city in the Donetsk region that has been a key flashpoint in the fighting. The military reported to Poroshenko that they flushed the insurgents out of Mykolaivka on the outskirts of Slovyansk, capturing 50 of them.

Rebels also shelled the Donetsk airport overnight, and an AP reporter who visited the site saw a radar or communications tower there still burning Friday.

The mutiny in eastern Ukraine , which erupted in mid-April after the ouster of the nation's pro-Moscow president and the subsequent Russia's annexation of Crimea, has killed more than 400 people, according to the United Nations.

The crisis in Ukraine has strained ties between Russia and the West to a degree unseen since the Cold War, prompting NATO to consider long-term responses to Moscow's apparent new willingness to flex its military might.

To that end, NATO and Russia both launched navy exercises Friday in the Black Sea.

NATO's drills in the western part of the Black Sea just a few hundred miles from Ukraine 's coast involve ships from the U.S., Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and Turkey. They were to continue until July 13.

Russia's Black Sea Fleet fielded about 20 ships and more than 20 aircraft for its maneuvers, which included missile launches at practice targets.

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JUL 05 -  MOSCOW,- Russian President Putin has told Obama in an Independence Day message that he hopes the countries can improve relations.

In a statement published on the Kremlin website on Friday, Putin said "regardless of difficulties and disagreements" he hoped that Russia and the U.S. could "successfully develop relations on pragmatic and equal grounds."

Relations between Russia and the United State have deteriorated as the 2 countries have struggled to find common ground in Ukraine, where Russia annexed the Black Sea region of Crimea in March and a conflict in the east of the country has claimed over 400 lives.

The US reacted by imposing sanctions on some of Putin's associates, and has threatened to take further action.

The video is dedicated to those people who are staying in the remote areas of the country. In this case, they have to face a lot of problems since there is lagging of every infrastructure. So the live of the people become a kind of problematic since they have to suffer a lot. In this scenario, the project has been initiated by the My Rights, My Voice Nepal - a Journey towards Light.

The project is the documentary about the problems facing the residents of Surkhet. There are so many problems but among the problems there is a problem which is related to the electricity. The main objective is to provide the light to the people of that particular place.  The project is also initiated so that the authorities can get into the problems and hence help to resolve the problems. At the same time there is also an alternative source of energy that can be also provided to the people.

There are so many people who are having problems in the health post in absence of electricity. So the project helps to those people who are having problem. Especially, the problem is created when there is no light and the delivery has to done. So many mothers have to face the problems and so many infants have been died due to the lack of light. Mostly the pregnant women need the light so that the proper medication can be done. The group learned new video skills and planned three advocacy films to improve access to health services in the three districts where the programme operates.

Breathe Deeper Kathmandu is the project that is initiated by the group of students from Action Aid Nepal. The groups of the students are working on the project that is related to the pollution and the environmental problems in Kathmandu. So far, the growing rates of the pollution adversely affect the lives of the people. In this scenario, it is the video that will help to make the people aware about the possible diseases that can be transmitted by the pollution.

Additionally, it is no wonder that Ktm. is also one of the most polluted cities in the world. With the increase in population, the density of the toll population has caused the lives very compact. In these circumstances, the project will help to sort out the problems that are related to the pollution caused by the automobiles and the factories.

Therefore, it is an ultimate need for the people to make them aware about the pollution that is growing in Ktm valley. Thus the project gives the suggestions so that to prevent oneself from the pollution that can be very worst in the future. So it is the short documentary that shows there are many issues which are caused by the pollution. So this is the document so that Kathmandu valley can be made breathable again.

Malcolm X transformed himself into a self-taught intellectual who spurned his past as a white-hating separatist and Nation of Islam spokesman to become an orthodox Muslim and an international figure.

In 1964, Malcolm X left his high-ranking post at the Nation of Islam, after discovering that the founder of the organization, Elijah Muhammad, had fathered children out of wedlock. He was assassinated in 1965 at the age of 39 by men associated with the group.

He was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925, in Omaha, Neb., to a West Indian mother and an American father, who was a Baptist minister deeply influenced by Marcus Aurelius Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association. Garvey exhorted African-Americans to return to Africa because the United States would continue to deny them basic rights.

He later married Betty Sanders, a nurse and fellow member of the Nation of Islam, in 1958. They had six children. Betty Shabazz died in 1997 after one of her grandchildren set fire to her apartment.

During the ‘60s, Malcolm X disdained the leaders of the civil rights movement, including the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, calling him an “Uncle Tom.” But after his conversion to orthodox Islam, changing his name to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz in Mecca, he revised his vision of the movement and its leaders.

Toward the end of his “Autobiography” (written by Alex Haley), Malcolm X wrote: “The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities — he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the American whites. But as racism leads America up the suicide path, I do believe, from the experiences that I have had with them, that the whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the wall and many of them will turn to the spiritual path of truth — the only way left to America to ward off the disaster that racism inevitably must lead to.”

 The Global March in Washington DC has been conducted against the Caste Based Discrimination around the World. In this case, the march has been dedicated to create awareness against the caste based discrimination which is still prevailed in World. So this is an initiation to the new justice movement in a sense that the caste based discrimination is still prevalent in the society. Thus the participators are thanked who have taken part in the Grand March. Similarly, the program has also advocated for the rights of Dalit who are residing in India. In this case, Dalits human rights are also talked in the march. Thus the march has talked about the fact that the caste based system should be eradicated from the country as well as throughout the Diaspora. Moreover, there are the Dalits friends who have their painful stories of discrimination and violence. It is also revealed that the march is also connected to the March which has taken place when Martin Luther King Jr has also delivered the speech on racial persecution as it is also like the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. So far, the march has also talked about the issue when one of the educated members has been shunned after disclosing his race