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News in Brief - Fri, July, 31, 2015 - 23:30 GMT

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Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas holds a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah on July 31, 2015, following an arson attack by Israeli settlers that killed a Palestinian toddler. Abbas said he would appeal to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to investigate the attack. AFP PHOTO / ABBAS MOMANI

1. Hamas has condemned the burning to death of Palestinian toddler by Israeli settlers.

2. Palestinian President has ordered Foreign Minister Riyadh al-Maliki to file a lawsuit against Israel at the International Criminal Court.

3. Israeli forces have killed at least two Palestinian teenage boys in two separate shootings.

4. Saudi warplanes have targeted some areas in the Yemeni provinces of Ma'rib and Hajjah. Saudis also launched dozens of rockets on Sa'ada province.

5. Yemen’s Ansarullah fighters and allied army units have shelled a Saudi military base in the Dhahran al-Janoub region in the Kingdom’s south.

6. An ambush on a Turkish army convoy in Diyarbakir province has left at least three soldiers injured.

7. A federal judge in the U-S enters not-guilty pleas for Dylann Roof who is accused of carrying out a deadly shooting at an African-American church in South Carolina.

8. Interim results from a study show a new experimental Ebola vaccine tested on thousands of people in Guinea has provided full protection.

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