Israeli forces pounded Gaza on Wednesday, meeting stiff resistance from Hamas Islamists and sending thousands of residents fleeing, as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on a visit to Israel ceasefire talks had made some progress.

• Date: 23.07.2014  |  Published on EGF: 23.07.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Israeli tanks and bulldozers dug in across a mile-wide strip of Gaza's eastern frontier on Saturday, and Palestinian officials said military strikes had killed more than 300 people, most of them civilians.

• Date: 19.07.2014  |  Published on EGF: 19.07.2014  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Israel intensified its land offensive in Gaza with artillery, tanks and gunboats on Friday and warned it could "significantly widen" an operation Palestinian officials said was killing ever greater numbers of civilians.

• Date: 18.07.2014  |  Published on EGF: 18.07.2014  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

srael held back on Monday from a threatened escalation of attacks on the northern Gaza Strip and no Palestinian rockets streaked towards Tel Aviv, but elsewhere fighting continued unabated despite growing pressure for a ceasefire.

• Date: 14.07.2014  |  Published on EGF: 14.07.2014  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

NATO countries, wary of antagonizing Russia, are unlikely to grant former Soviet republic Georgia a formal step towards membership of the alliance at a summit in September, NATO diplomats say.

• Date: 20.06.2014  |  Published on EGF: 20.06.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

The United States pledged millions of dollars in additional aid to Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia on Saturday, deepening American support to the Western-leaning countries on Russia's border.

• Date: 08.06.2014  |  Published on EGF: 08.06.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

A senior member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government hinted on Saturday that Israel was involved in back-channel contacts with Palestinian and Arab officials despite the collapse of U.S.-brokered peace negotiations last month.

• Date: 17.05.2014  |  Published on EGF: 17.05.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Fire sent carbon monoxide coursing through a coal mine in western Turkey within minutes, killing close to 300 workers, but the exact cause of the country's worst industrial disaster remains unclear, the mine operator said on Friday.

• Date: 16.05.2014  |  Published on EGF: 16.05.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/