A woman cries near her burning house after shelling in east Ukraine's Donetsk Region, Jun. 30ITAR-TASS

KIEV, July 01. /ITAR-TASS/. After Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko unilaterally terminated ceasefire, the military forces began an operation “on destroying terrorist groups” in the south-east, UNIAN agency reported.

The agency said that aviation and artillery strikes are made on strongholds and positions of the self-defense forces.   Continue reading “Ukraine’s military carry out artillery strikes on positions of self-defense forces”

New York Daily News – by ROCCO PARASCANDOLA

A Bronx woman who has accused an NYPD cop of breaking into her apartment during a drunken early morning attack told investigators that he viciously beat her in her bed, punching her more than 20 times.

Officer Eugene Donnelly, clad only in his underwear, eventually fled — but not before taking a drink of milk from her refrigerator, a source familiar with the woman’s account told the Daily News.   Continue reading “Drunken NYPD cop punched Bronx woman 20 to 30 times after breaking into her apartment: source”

Candles placed next to a picture of three Israeli teenagers who were abducted and killed, in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square June 30, 2014. Israeli forces found the bodies of the three missing teenagers in the occupied West Bank on Monday after a nearly three-week-long search and a sweep against the Islamist Hamas group that Israel says abducted them. (REUTERS/Nir Elias)Yahoo News – by Jeffrey Heller

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel bombed dozens of sites in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, striking at Hamas after finding the bodies of three missing teenagers whose abduction and killing it blames on the Palestinian Islamist group.

Israel’s security cabinet, which held an emergency session late on Monday and was due to meet again on Tuesday, was split on the scope of any further action in the coastal enclave or in the occupied West Bank, officials said. The United States and regional power-broker Egypt urged restraint.   Continue reading “Israel launches Gaza air strike after bodies of missing teens found”