Russia's Severstal CHMF.MM said it would sell two U.S. steel plants for $2.3 billion, withdrawing from the U.S. market at a time of rising tension between Russia and the West and turning its focus to its domestic business.

• Date: 21.07.2014  |  Published on EGF: 21.07.2014  |  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/

Germany's foreign minister said on Saturday now may be Moscow's last opportunity to prove it is serious about peace in Ukraine as Chancellor Angela Merkel reiterated her call on Russia's Vladimir Putin to use his influence over pro-Moscow separatists.

• Date: 19.07.2014  |  Published on EGF: 19.07.2014  |  External Relations  |  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/

World leaders demanded an international investigation into the shooting down of a Malaysian airliner with 298 people on board over eastern Ukraine in a tragedy that could mark a pivotal moment in the worst crisis between Russia and the West since the Cold War.

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

At least six Ukrainian soldiers were killed in renewed attacks on government military posts and checkpoints by pro-Moscow separatists near the border with Russia, the Ukrainian military said on Tuesday.

• Date: 15.07.2014  |  Published on EGF: 15.07.2014  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

U.S. President Barack Obama told Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday he wants U.S.-Chinese relations defined by more cooperation and a constructive management of differences during a phone call in which Iran and North Korea were discussed.

• Date: 15.07.2014  |  Published on EGF: 15.07.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Israel resumed air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, six hours after agreeing to an Egyptian-proposed truce that failed to halt Hamas rocket attacks.

• Date: 15.07.2014  |  Published on EGF: 15.07.2014  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/