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Gaza truce proposed after Israeli shell kills 30 (AP)
1 hour 39 min ago
AP - France and Egypt announced an initiative to stop the fighting in Gaza late Tuesday, hours after Israeli mortar shells exploded near a U.N. school sheltering hundreds of people displaced by the onslaught on Hamas militants. At least 30 Palestinians died, staining streets with blood.
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Egypt floats truce plan after 42 killed in Gaza school (Reuters)
1 hour 43 min ago
Reuters - Israel and Hamas studied a proposal by Egypt for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday that won immediate backing from the United States and Europe, hours after Israeli shells killed 42 Palestinians at a U.N. school.
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European Peace Efforts on Gaza Hit Roadblocks (Time.com)
1 hour 49 min agoTime.com - European efforts to broker a truce are hobbled by factors ranging from Israel's goals to the E.U.'s own positions on Hamas
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Deadly Israeli raids on schools take Gaza toll to 660 (AFP)
2 hours 24 min ago
AFP - Israeli forces blazed into towns across Gaza on Tuesday striking Hamas targets and also hitting three UN-run schools in attacks that killed at least 48 people and sparked urgent new ceasefire calls.
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Egypt and France propose plan to end Gaza conflict (AP)
2 hours 37 min ago
AP - The presidents of Egypt and France have proposed a plan to end the escalating Israeli-Hamas conflict in Gaza, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Tuesday.
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Palestinian working for Iran media held in Israel (AP)
2 hours 39 min agoAP - A Palestinian working for an Iranian television station was held for questioning by Israeli police Tuesday on suspicion of violating censorship rules.
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Report: Al-Qaida No. 2 blames Obama for Gaza (AP)
2 hours 50 min agoAP - An intelligence monitoring center reports that Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader is blaming Barack Obama and Egypt's president for the Israeli offensive in Gaza.
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Israel agrees to Gaza "humanitarian corridor" (AP)
2 hours 55 min agoAP - Israel says it has agreed to set up a "humanitarian corridor" to ship vital supplies to the people of the Gaza Strip.
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Hamas responsible for deadly Gaza attack: Canada (Reuters)
3 hours 7 sec agoReuters - The Canadian government blamed the Palestinian militant group Hamas for the deaths of more than 40 civilians who were killed by Israeli shells on Tuesday in some of the most hard-line comments by any leading western nation on the deadly incident.
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Rice in New York to discuss Gaza ceasefire (Reuters)
3 hours 17 min ago
Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew to New York on Tuesday to discuss with key powers how to get a ceasefire in Gaza that the United States says must be durable, sustainable and indefinite.
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Venezuela expels Israeli ambassador over Gaza (AP)
3 hours 26 min ago
AP - Venezuela ordered the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador and some embassy staff on Tuesday to protest Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
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Israel shells near UN school, killing at least 30 (AP)
3 hours 41 min ago
AP - Israeli mortar shells struck outside a U.N. school where hundreds of Palestinians had sought refuge on Tuesday, killing at least 30 people many of them children whose parents wailed in grief at a hospital filled with dead and wounded.
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Qaeda deputy urges Muslims to attack Israeli, Western targets (AFP)
3 hours 44 min ago
AFP - Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri called on Muslims to attack Israeli and Western targets in response to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip in a message released online Tuesday.
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Arabs push UN resolution demanding Gaza cease-fire (AP)
4 hours 4 min ago
AP - Arab nations floated a proposed U.N. Security Council resolution Tuesday calling for an immediate end to combat in the Gaza Strip and deployment of an international force to monitor a cease-fire and protect Palestinian civilians.
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Mubarak invites Israel to discuss Gaza border security (AFP)
4 hours 4 min ago
AFP - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Tuesday invited Israel for an urgent meeting to discuss security on the Egypt-Gaza border, following talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Chronology of Israel's relationship with Gaza (AP)
4 hours 15 min agoAP - • June 1967: Israel captures the Egyptian-controlled Gaza Strip during six-day Mideast war. An Israeli census put the population at 380,000, at least half of whom were refugees from Israel. Today the population stands at about 1.5 million. The U.N. lists just over 1 million as refugees and their descendants.
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Israeli shells kill 42 at U.N. school: Gaza medics (Reuters)
4 hours 26 min ago
Reuters - Israeli shelling killed more than 40 Palestinians on Tuesday at a U.N. school where civilians had taken shelter, medical officials said, in carnage likely to boost international pressure on Israel to halt a Gaza offensive.
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Obama vows 'plenty' to say on Mideast after swearing-in (AFP)
4 hours 32 min ago
AFP - US president-elect Barack Obama Tuesday vowed to speak out about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict once he takes office, but insisted until then only President George W. Bush can speak for the US.
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Economy trumps geopolitical strife: oil falls (AP)
5 hours 21 min ago
AP - Oil prices fell Tuesday as fresh signs of a deepening U.S. recession trumped tensions in the Middle East and worries over natural gas shortages in Europe.
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Diplomats push Syria to pressure ally Hamas (AP)
5 hours 51 min ago
AP - France's president sought Syrian help Tuesday to bring a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, while Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice headed to the United Nations for meetings with Arab and European leaders.
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