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Frustrated medical staff forced to wait at border | RAFAH - Frustration has been mounting at Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip, where many local and foreign doctors have been waiting for days for Egyptian permission to enter the area. | Yesterday, a... (photo: AP / Tara Todras-Whitehill) NZ Herald Aid Egypt Gaza Medicine Photos |
Israel cabinet welcomes Gaza truce | THE Israeli security cabinet has welcomed a Franco-Egyptian initiative to end the 12-day-old fighting in Gaza but stopped short of endorsing it. | "Israel thanks the Egyptian president and the ... (photo: AP / David Furst, Pool) The Australian Defence Egypt Gaza Israel Photos |
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Egypt best placed to broker end to crisis | TONY Blair was right to point to Egypt as the means to an early cooling of the Gaza crisis. Egypt acknowledged the need for it to play some kind of role by hosting a de... (photo: AP Photo / Nasser Nasser) The Australian Egypt Gaza Israel Photos War |
Israel opens up corridor for relief | ISRAEL last night opened a humanitarian corridor into the Gaza Strip - a key point of an Egyptian plan to end the 12-day-old campaign that has killed at least 680 Pales... (photo: AP / Adel Hana) The Australian Aid Defence Gaza Israel Photos |
Ground realities in Gaza | By Richard M Bennett | Israel's patience with Hamas finally snapped on December 27, 2008. The government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Tel Aviv finally took the mome... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb) Asia Times Attacks Casualties Gaza Israel Photos |
Israel conditionally welcomes proposal from France and Egypt to end Gaza fighting | JERUSALEM - Israel conditionally welcomes proposal from France and Egypt to end Gaza fighting. Comment on this story | | &... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb) Star Tribune Egypt Gaza Israel Kill Photos |
Property prospects look bleak | By Roy Cockayne | The residential property market faces bleak prospects this year as distressed sales and sales in execution encounter reduced demand and the fall in ho... (photo: WN/Theresa Poongan) Independent online Business Economy Industry Market Photos |
Brangelina to adopt 4th child | Los Angeles - Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are reportedly set to adopt another Ethiopian child. | The couple - who already have three biological children Shiloh, two, s... (photo: AP Photo / Francois Mori) News24 Adopt Celebrity Entertainment Photos Stars |
UN warned of South Sudan violence | The UN must boost its peacekeepers' mandate in Sudan to protect civilians amid fears political violence could erupt in the south, says an aid agency. | Refugees Interna... (photo: UN / Tim McKulka) BBC News Africa Photos Politics Sudan UN War |
YEMEN: Poverty, lack of education boosting HIV/AIDS - experts web | Photo: SANAA, 7 January 2009 (IRIN) - Maha (not her real name), 22, has been a commercial sex worker since she was 17. She told IRIN she and her sister were forced ... (photo: WN / Janice Sabnal) IRINnews Commercial Muslim Photos Poverty Prostitution |
Israel to pause Gaza bombardment | Israel says it will halt its bombardment of the Gaza Strip for three hours every day. | The decision follows an announcement by Israel that it had agreed to open a huma... (photo: AP / Sebastian Scheiner) BBC News Gaza Israel Mideast Photos War |