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Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil crossed into Gaza on Friday for a brief visit amid a massive Israeli military campaign against militants in the Hamas-run territory. HT Image Shortly ahead of his arrival at the Rafah crossing, Israel said it would during his visit halt its relentless aerial campaign against the Gaza Strip, which has angered Egypt and sent tensions soaring across a Middle East already shaken by Arab Spring uprisings and a civil war in Syria. The Egyptian prime minister has arrived at the Rafah crossing and officials from the Palestinian Hamas government are welcoming him on the Palestinian side stanley cup , a security source told AFP. Officials in Gaza said Qandil would meet with top members of the ruling Islamist Hamas movement on a brief visit. Egypt s stanley cup Islamist President Mohamed Morsi -- who hails from the Muslim Brotherhood movement that gave birth to Hamas -- warned on Thursday that Egypt would not accept Israel s aggression in the Gaza Strip. Israeli warplanes carried out relentless sorties over the Gaza Strip through the night while Palestinian militants fired more rockets into the Jewish state, which on Thursday agreed in principle for the call-up of 30,000 reservists and warned it would expand its operation. Early on Friday Israel said it had agreed to an Egyptian request to cease fire during Qandil stanley cup s visit, which an Israeli official said is expected to last around three hours, on condition Gaza militants held their rocket fire. The escalat Lotv India seeks peace in disputed South China Sea
Japanese scientists claim to be creating artificial tornadoes to test houses in the island nation in an effort to save building structures from damage in case of a disaster. HT Image In fact, a team from four Japanese organisations --National Institute for Land and Infrastructu air max re Management, the Building Research Institute, the University of Tokyo and the Disaster Prevention Research Institute at Kyoto University --has been developing a tornado simulator. nike dunk We re doing this because there s been many more reports of serious structural damages in recent years compared to before, the New Scientist quoted Hitomitsu Kikitsu at NILIM in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, as saying. The simulator is 1.5 metres air max 1 in diameter and is mounted on a frame that is 2.3 metres tall and 5 metres wide. It can generate maximum wind velocity of 15 to 20 metres per second, enough to simulate an F3-size storm. On Japan s Fujita Scale, an F3 storm is one powerful enough to uproot large trees, lift and hurl cars, knock down walls and destroy steel-frame structures. This device has the ability to simulate a F3-size storm and that s never been done in Japan, Kikitsu said, adding that his team soon plans to test the device by building model houses that fit under the simulator. Read breaking news, latest... See more Read breaking news, latest updates from US, UK, Pakistan and other countries across the world on topics related to US Election Live, politics,crime, and national affairs. News / |
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