News Headlines - 03 August 2014
▽BBC News - Gaza crisis: Rafah school strike 'criminal' - UN chief
An attack that killed 10 people at a UN-run Gaza school was a "moral outrage and a criminal act", UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said.
▽Israel declares 7-hour humanitarian cease-fire to take effect Monday in Gaza | Israel News
Israel said its military would hold fire in most of the Gaza Strip for seven hours on Monday to facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid and for displaced Palestinians to return to their homes, but would fight back if attacked.
The humanitarian truce, beginning at 10 a.m. local time, would not apply in areas of the southern Gaza town of Rafah where Israeli forces are still operating, a Defense Ministry official said in a statement.
▽Inside the tunnels Hamas built: Israel's struggle against new tactic in Gaza war | The Observer
The entrance is a deep vertical shaft, usually hidden in a house. It drops down a dozen metres or so before reaching a horizontal passage, lined with concrete and electric cables. Most are around a metre wide and perhaps 2.5m high, barely enough to accommodate a man carrying a heavy load of weaponry.
Al-Qaeda-inspired extremists seized control of the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar on Sunday, advancing against overstretched Kurdish forces and sending thousands of residents running for their lives.
▽After the gold rush Glasgow's glittering Commonwealth Games draw to a close | The Guardian
"We-eh-eh-eh-eeeeeh-llllll!" Eleven days, 261 events, 824 medals, nine world records, many, many Proclaimers singalongs, one Ebola scare and several thousand selfies after it began, Glasgow's Commonwealth Games drew to a close on Sunday night, with a colourful ceremony kicked off by the familiar yodel of one of its most famous daughters.
