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BELGRADE - Serbian Defense Minister Bratislav Gasic and Egyptian Ambassador to Serbia Menha Mahrous Bakhoum conferred Tuesday on the development of defense cooperation programs, and agreed that a bilateral defense cooperation agreement should be concluded as soon as possible in order to establish a legal framework for future joint projects.

Thousands of Syrian refugee women are caught in a "spiral of hardship, isolation and anxiety," widowed or separated from their husbands and struggling to survive, the UN warned on Tuesday.
      

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said July 6 he "wished" three jailed al-Jazeera journalists including an Australian had not been put on trial, conceding the case had been damaging, a newspaper reported.

The high pricing of the 2014 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights by Qatari entities in the Middle East naturally creates a politically explosive situation in a football-crazy part of the world No matter how entrenched animosities in the Middle East may be, one principle is upheld by all: never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Israeli aircraft attacked 10 sites used by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Sunday in response to persistent rocket strikes from the enclave, the Israeli military said.
   

It may be amusing to some, but there is nothing funny about the declaration of the “Caliphate” by the militant group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The rise of rejectionist groups is testimony to an older, deeper struggle that still haunts the region today. It would be folly to dismiss Islamist rejectionism as a fringe ideology.

OBRENOVAC - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic and ambassadors of nine African countries visited Obrenovac and Kraljevo on Thursday and donated humanitarian aid to the population affected by the recent flooding.

African ambassadors deliver aid

OBRENOVAC, KRALJEVO -- Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić and ambassadors of nine African countries visited Obrenovac and Kraljevo on Thursday.

They donated humanitarian aid to the population affected by the recent flooding.

The Arab Spring has turned out to be a massive failure.

It did not bring democracy to the Arab peoples.

It brought a new era of coup d’etats like in Egypt, chaos and division like in Libya, and civil war and the decomposition of existing borders in Syria and Iraq.

Whatever else you may say about the “young war criminal” (as British journalist Alan Watkins used to call former prime minister Tony Blair), he certainly fights his corner with great determination. He is condemned to spend his life defending his part in the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and last weekend he was at it again.