Sentences with phrase «day ceasefire»

Instead she resigned via Twitter just after 9 am on Tuesday, coincidentally about three hours after a three - day ceasefire had come into force.

A three - day ceasefire between Israel and Hamas which began at 6 am on Tuesday appears to be holding.

The Niger Delta Avengers had agreed to a 60 - day ceasefire in late August, however, the group attacked a Bonny crude export pipeline on Friday in response to government attempts to capture the group's members during the ceasefire.

More than 150,000 people fled Afrin in recent days, the Syrian Observatory said, as Turkey pressed on with its campaign despite a U.N. Security Council call for a 30 - day ceasefire across Syria.

Not exact matches

, Hillary avoid a financially driven unilateral ceasefire through the dog days of summer.

Yesterday Mr Blair said he believed the UN security council could agree on a resolution «within days», despite divisions over whether or not to call for an immediate ceasefire on Israel's part, something both the UK and the US have resisted so far.

But by the end of the day, the two arch rivals approached a ceasefire, agreeing to work together to find savings on both programs.

As the ceasefire entered its third day, the human rights organisation published a series of disturbing testimonials by workers on the ground strongly suggesting Israeli forces broke the Fourth Geneva Convention.

After a day - long conference in London on how to move forward the political process in Libya, other developments included: An admission the Coalition did not yet fully know who made up the opposition, which came after Nato said American intelligence had shown «flickers» of al Qaeda among the rebels; A suggestion the Coalition would be prepared to see Colonel Gaddafi go into exile if a country was willing to take him; A claim by the Italians that several nations were working on a deal involving a ceasefire, exile for Gaddafi and a talks framework between Libya's tribal leaders and opposition figures; Nick Clegg warning about the «danger of overreaching» during a speech in Mexico, but stressing liberal interventionism must be upheld.

Asked on Sky News yesterday what steps the government would take to secure a ceasefire, Foreign Office minister Bill Rammell replied: «Well, we are literally working hour to hour, day to day talking to all the key partners.

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Fed up with the blood on the streets, the courageous and beautiful Lysistrata (Teyonah Parris) organises a sex strike to try to force the menfolk into a ceasefire, in much the same way as her Greek namesake had done in her day, and as Liberian Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee has done more recently.

If international media wanted to provide their readers with real and useful information, they could report on a joint statistical analysis performed by the University of Tel Aviv, MIT and a Harvard graduate student that demonstrates that 79 % of all ceasefires were violated by Israel, 8 % by Palestinians and 13 % by both sides on the same day; and that of twenty - five ceasefires lasting longer than a week Israel violated twenty - four; and that Israel violated all fourteen ceasefires that lasted longer than nine days.1

Supporters of Project Ceasefire carry banners in Monday's Martin Luther King Day parade.

Working in Ireland for thirty years, Graham has photographed the country's landscape during the darker days of The Troubles (Troubled Land, 1984 - 86 and In Umbra Res, 1988 - 89) and even captured the same Irish skies during the three day span of the first «Cessation of Hostilities» that led to peace in Northern Ireland (Ceasefire, April 6 — 8, 1994).