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"The Northern Territories are an inherent part of Japan's territory, and we cannot accept the move," a senior ministry official also said, a day after Russia announced its military began military exercises on the Russia-held, Japan-claimed islands.

MOSCOW, September 6 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko on Saturday expressed hope that the country maintains its territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence.

Lithuania's president says that Russia, in an effort to maintain influence over territories that were once part of the Soviet Union, has set out to make the Baltic states "unreliable partners" for NATO and the European Union.

Fresh Israeli bombardments killed at least 14 people in Gaza on Sunday, medics said, as the army intensified a 13-day campaign against the besieged Palestinian territory.

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories, July 20, 2014 (AFP) - Hamas, the main power in Gaza, said Sunday it had received an "invitation" for talks in Cairo on an Egyptian-proposed ceasefire with Israel, after nearly two weeks of conflict.

Two Chinese coastguard ships sailed into disputed waters off Japan-administered islands in the East China Sea Saturday, officials said, as the United States warned Beijing over increasing territorial assertiveness.

Chinese President Xi Jinping issued a veiled warning to the United States on Wednesday, saying countries should not build up military alliances in Asia, even as Beijing feuds with neighbours in territorial disputes.

MOSCOW, September 6 (Itar-Tass) - The chairman of the State Duma's international affairs committee Alexey Pushkov believes that the deployment of a "spearhead" rapid reaction force of NATO in Polish territory would be an unfriendly act towards Russia.