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 Tight security for Iraqi Shi'ite rite
| BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Thousands of Iraqi Shi'ites flocked to holy sites on Tuesday to observe a religious rite amid tight security, days after a bomber killed at least 35 pilgrims. Shi'ite pilgrims ch... (photo: AP / Ahmed Alhussainey) The Star
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 Hamas fights off Israel in Gaza cities
| GAZA CITY: Israeli troops battled Hamas fighters in major cities of overcrowded Gaza on Tuesday as Israel spurned appeals to halt a war on the Islamists that has killed at least 580 Palestinians. | ... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb) The Manila Times
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 Bush plan beat obstacle to Gaza assault
By Gareth Porter | WASHINGTON - Until mid-2007, there was a serious political obstacle to a massive conventional war by Israel against Hamas in Gaza: the fact that Hamas ... (photo: AP Photo) Asia Times
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 North Korea sees an opening
By Donald Kirk | WASHINGTON - As the United States focuses on the new Israeli war, and president-elect Barack Obama prepares to take office, North Korea is revving up its... (photo: AP / Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service) Asia Times
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 Al-Qaeda sniffs opportunity in Gaza
| By Syed Saleem Shahzad | KARACHI - The ongoing Israeli offensive in Gaza against Hamas, which has aroused the Arab street, although Egypt and Saudi Arabia support the a... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb) Asia Times
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 Israeli strike kills 20 inside UN school in Gaza: medics
| AN Israeli strike killed at least 20 people who had taken refuge inside a UN school in the Gaza Strip, in the third such attack in a day, medics said. The strike hit ne... (photo: AP / Khalil Hamra) The Australian
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 Two sides in Gaza conflict looking for a way out
| AS Israel tightened its pressure on Hamas strongholds yesterday, both sides were hoping that external forces would intervene to spare them even bloodier encounters awai... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb) The Australian
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 Barack Obama's campaign silence may have given Israel licence to invade
| IF Europe wants to phone America on the Gaza crisis, who does it call? Not George Bush, who has two weeks left in the White House. And not Barack Obama, who has been mu... (photo: AP / Sebastian Scheiner) The Australian
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 Media outrage at ban on reporters
| EREZ CROSSING: Israel yesterday scrapped arrangements to allow the first foreign reporters into Gaza since it launched an all-out war against Palestinian militants, add... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb) The Australian
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 Hospitals in Gaza Strip feel the human toll
| GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip: Salah Samouni banged his head in grief against a wall inside the hospital morgue where the bodies of his three nephews lay on the floor yesterday... (photo: WN NOUR AHMED ) The Australian
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