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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday welcomed the agreement reached between Russia and the United States (US) for a nationwide cessation of hostilities to begin in Syria from Feb 27, said the Foreign Office (FO) in a statement.

MUNICH: Major powers agreed on Friday to a "cessation of hostilities" in Syria to begin in a week, doing nothing in the meantime to halt Russian bombing poised to give government forces their biggest victory of the five-year-old war.

The 15-member body will meet at 10 a.m. EST on Thursday to discuss the violence that is building up to the most serious hostilities between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza since an eight-day war in 2012.