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PM said amenable to Abbas meeting hosted by Sissi in Cairo
Sisi urged Israelis and Palestinians to seize what he said was a "real opportunity" and hailed his own country's peace deal with Israel. The visit targets resuming peace negotiations and putting the Palestinian cause into global focal interests after a period of stalled peace process, the statement added.
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Markets Right Now: S&P 500 on track for record high close
However, the best performing S&P 500 sectors since the previous record have been defensive: utilities .SPLRCU , telecoms .SPLRCL and consumer staples .SPLRCS , all with double-digit percentage gains. "I think there's still plenty of room for the market to gain". The measure of market turbulence known as the VIX sank 11 per cent on Friday, marking the first back-to-back weekly declines since April.
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Theresa May set to become new Prime Minister
Mr. Cameron said he will chair his last Cabinet meeting tomorrow and attend House of Commons for his last Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday before heading to Buckingham Palace to offer his official resignation to Queen Elizabeth II. Conservative lawmakers narrowed the field from five contenders to two, Leadsom and May. But Leadsom's unexpected withdrawal opens the way for May to take over much sooner.
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'Never Trump' Convention Delegates Win In Court
The case was brought by Beau Correll who sought to prevent enforcement of a Virginia law binding delegates to the primary results. Almost two dozen other states have similar laws requiring delegates to vote a certain way. The movement - with hashtags #NeverTrump and #FreeTheDelegates - is vowing to launch a media campaign and unveil alternative candidates this week as Republicans begin to show up for next week's convention in Cleveland.
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Dallas gunman learned tactics at Texas self-defence school
Johnson donned a protective vest and used a military-style semi-automatic rifle for the shootings, which marked the deadliest day for US law enforcement since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Later reports by the police said that they conducted multiple searches of the parking garage, including with a canine unit. Brown also vigorously defended his decision to use a bomb mounted on a robot to kill the gunman while he was holed up after killing the five officers.
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Karachi: Thousands attend Abdul Sattar Edhi's last rites amid tight security
The 88-year-old charity worker died on Friday after a prolonged illness. With these very, very important people in attendance, in terrorism-inflicted Pakistan, security was at the highest level imaginable, which basically meant that the aam awam , the common people to whom Abdul Sattar Edhi had devoted his life, were not able to participate as effectively as they may have wished.