Gaza fight rages as cease-fire efforts press on - Boston Globe
GAZA CITY - Israel resumed its Gaza offensive yesterday, bombing heavily around suspected smuggling tunnels near the border with Egypt after a three-hour lull to allow in humanitarian aid. Hamas responded with a rocket barrage. Despite the heavy ...
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UN:Israel's daily 3-hour truces in Gaza good first step, but not ... - Xinhua News Agency
UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The daily three-hour pause that Israel began on Wednesday on the 12th day of its Gaza offensive against Hamas was a good first step, but totally insufficient for the United Nations to aid the 1.5 million civilians ...
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UN Says No Hamas Fighters Were in Bombed Gaza School - Yahoo News
Play Video Mideast Video: Siding With Hamas? FOX News Mideast Video: Israeli, Hamas delegates to visit Cairo for separate truce talks CBC.ca Play Video Mideast Video: Muslims, Jews Hold Peaceful Vigil On Gaza Violence CBS 2 / KCAL 9 Los Angeles ...
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China official urges education to stem terrorism - Washington Examiner
Rocked by a fresh outbreak of anti-government violence, officials in China's far western Xinjiang region are urging expanded free education to staunch support for Islamic separatists. The appeal appeared to acknowledge that force alone will not ...
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Police: H.S. Student Brought Gun To School - WPBF News 25
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Police said a student in custody took a gun to a Fort Lauderdale high school -- the same school where a 15-year-old girl is accused of fatally shooting her friend two months ago. Fort Lauderdale police said a student saw ...
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'Zombie Bandit' is suspect in Medford robbery - Contra Costa Times
MEDFORD, Ore.?A convicted bank robber the FBI nicknamed the "Zombie Bandit" during a string of bank holdups in the Midwest in 1991 is the suspect in a robbery last week in Medford. Surveillance videos convinced investigators the man who robbed the ...
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Fed up with the violence - Houston Chronicle
The Rev. Robert Gilmore, left, joins the Rev. Robert Jefferson, second from left, and other ministers Tuesday to ask local leaders to take steps to end the violence affecting black youths. "We're tired of black-on-black violence," Jefferson said ...
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TIMELINE: Israeli-Hamas violence since truce ended - Reuters
(Reuters) - Hundreds of embattled Palestinians ventured outside to shop for food on Wednesday during a three-hour Gaza truce, a first step toward an Egyptian-proposed ceasefire under discussion by Israel and Hamas. Here is a timeline of events since ...
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Student arrested after bringing gun to Dillard High campus - Miami Herald
The Fort Lauderdale high school where a teenage girl allegedly shot a friend to death in November had another gun scare Wednesday, as a Dillard student showed a peer a weapon before fleeing campus. Tavin Clark, 16, led police on a foot chase through ...
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Nothing uniform about virtue - The Times
IT WAS one of those moments you dread. At this annual awards function, a cabinet minister is scheduled to make the keynote speech. He is late, as usual, but at the appointed time the master of ceremonies announces feverishly: Ladies and Gentlemen ...
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