(n.) A cessation of arms for a short time, by convention; a temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement; a truce.
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(1) Corbyn to complain to MoD about army chief's ‘political interference’ Read more Meanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn’s political mis-steps over the past 10 days have allowed his views to be dismissed as flaky and irresponsible – even where he is right, as in his warnings about kneejerk responses to terrorist attacks and, indeed, in his Armistice Day strictures about the requirement for the top brass to stay out of politics .
(2) Ever since North Korea’s first atomic test in 2006 (followed by others in 2009 and 2013), the risk of escalation and confrontation in a region where peace only rests on the 1953 armistice has long been obvious.
(3) Dr Wilson will be giving an eve-of-Armistice-Day talk, Monday November 10, 7.30 pm on Siegfried Sassoon at the Old Town Hall, Richmond, Surrey.
(4) In 1953, Kim’s rival Syngman Rhee – the first president of South Korea – refused to sign the Korean Armistice Agreement , he wanted to fight on.
(5) His career in anaesthesia began after the Armistice, when he was posted with Ivan Magill to Harold Gillies's plastic surgery unit at Sidcup.
(6) It warned that the attack was a violation of the armistice that ended the Korean war in 1953.
(7) The armistice never became a fully-fledged peace agreement and therefore North and South Korea technically remain at war.
(8) The 1950-53 war ended with an armistice, but the two Koreas never signed a peace treaty.
(9) Yonhap news agency said the missiles were launched only about 12 miles north of the demilitarised zone (DMZ) that has divided the peninsula since the 1950-53 Korean war ended in a fragile armistice.
(10) No peace treaty was signed after their three-year conflict which ended in an armistice in 1953.
(11) On Armistice Day, she used to watch those veterans and say: "Harry should be there with them."
(12) Hotlines have been cut, the 1953 armistice and later agreements denounced .
(13) But the EU summit in Ypres will also struggle to strike an armistice, with David Cameron and Angela Merkel, who are locking horns over the vexed question of Jean-Claude Juncker .
(14) There, one-half of the Turkish force took up the entrenched position about the city, which it held until after the Armistice.
(15) Clapper's assessment to a Senate committee on Tuesday came as the North Korean state press said people are ready to "rain bullets on the enemy" amid increasing tensions since Pyongyang announced the 1953 armistice with Seoul was at an end.
(16) Ninety years on from the Armistice, we look at the events of 1914-18 and think we are examining our national psychic wound.
(17) Black labour had been welcomed, especially at sea, but "when the armistice was signalled on 11 November 1918, the wartime boom for black labour fizzled out as quickly as it had begun".
(18) North and South Korea are still in a state of war technically because they never signed a peace treaty after an armistice ended the 1950-53 conflict.
(19) The backdrop to Lee's conviction is an ideological conflict whose roots lie in the separation of the peninsula after the Korean war, which ended with an armistice but not a peace treaty.
(20) The prime minister said there would be events in 2014 to mark 100 years since the outbreak of the war and in 2018 for the centenary of Armistice Day, and also on the dates of major battles in between.
Ceasefire
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(1) | Mary Dejevsky Read more Third, if that breakthrough can be delivered with good faith on all sides, that could potentially be the basis to revive the Kerry-Lavrov ceasefire , open humanitarian channels into Aleppo, and start the process of negotiating a lasting peace.
(2) The US secretary of state, John Kerry , said if Yemen’s opposing sides accepted and moved forward on a ceasefire then the UN special envoy, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, would work through the details and announce when and how it would take effect.
(3) If neighbouring Arab states put pressure on the rebel groups, the result could be a ceasefire and an end to the terrible violence.
(4) There was little chance of a lasting ceasefire while insurgents were re-arming, mobilising and training with foreign support, he added.
(5) CeaseFire placed two interrupters on the ground, and in 2004 there were no homicides recorded at all.
(6) Malnourished residents have to walk miles to buy food on the road to Yalda, whose residents are benefiting from a local ceasefire deal between the regime and the opposition.
(7) It has been the UK's view that a violation of Iraq's obligations under resolution 687 which is sufficiently serious to undermine the basis of the ceasefire can revive the authorisation to use force in resolution 678.
(8) The ministry said Lavrov and Kerry spoke on the phone on Sunday for a second day in a row and discussed “the modality and conditions” for a ceasefire in Syria that would exclude groups that the UN security council considers terrorist organisations.
(9) In New York, the UN security council unanimously called for a ceasefire, while Britain's foreign minister, William Hague, said he would be discussing ceasefire efforts with his American, French and German counterparts on Sunday.
(10) Merkel and Obama both expressed grave concerns about the collapse of the Syrian ceasefire during a joint press conference in the German city on Sunday.
(11) Locally brokered ceasefires have taken effect elsewhere in Syria in recent months, notably in the Moadimeyah district of Damascus, which was also once a hub of opposition control.
(12) In New York, the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), whose mission is to monitor a 1974 disengagement in the Golan Heights between Israel and Syria , reported that shortly after midnight local time, during a ceasefire agreed with the armed elements, all 40 Filipino peacekeepers left their position and "arrived in a safe location one hour later."
(13) This diplomatic battle culminated last year in the signing of a peace agreement between the rebels and the government which imposed an immediate ceasefire, and was supposed to lead to a government of national unity with Machar once again in the vice-president’s office.
(14) However, a bilateral ceasefire will probably only be possible once there is an agreement on the transitional justice framework for demobilised combatants.
(15) The Donetsk rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko had previously said his forces would observe the ceasefire everywhere except in Debaltseve, which he said rightfully belonged to the rebels.
(16) But there was scepticism over whether the more radical elements on either side would obey the ceasefire, and concern in Kiev and western capitals that the truce would effectively "freeze" the conflict and give Moscow de facto control over the disputed chunk of eastern Ukraine that has been ruined by war this summer.
(17) Nigeria is “inching closer” to securing the release of 219 schoolgirls kidnapped six months ago, despite fears that reports of a ceasefire with the Islamist militant group Boko Haram have not come to fruition.
(18) Late last night, al-Ahmar, who is also the head of the Hashid confederation, accused Saleh's troops of not observing the ceasefire.
(19) These are practical, concrete steps which at least offer the possibility of calming the situation, establishing a ceasefire, delivering relief to Aleppo, and securing a lasting peace.
(20) "Since the elections there have been three broken ceasefires, with the Kachin, Karen and Shan minorities, a massive increase in army attacks on ethnic groups, and a sharp rise in gang rapes involving women and children.