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 Seven members of Zimbabwe's main opposition party were the first of dozens of jailed dissidents to be formally charged Wednesday, and they pleaded not guilty in a bombing plot.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday that the United States was supporting the Egyptian-French cease-fire initiative for Gaza.
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Many of the Palestinians hiding in a school that was hit by Israeli mortar shells had been directed to flee their homes by the Israeli military.
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The lull in attacks between Israel and Hamas allowed food and supplies to be sent into the area. France and Egypt work on a cease-fire proposal. After a brief pause to allow humanitarian aid to go to the Gaza Strip, Israel and Hamas resumed fighting today, even as diplomatic efforts focused on how to end the 12 days of bloodshed.
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U.N. officials are "99.9 percent certain" there were no Palestinian militants in or on the grounds of a school that was shelled by Israeli forces, killing more than 40 people, a spokesman said Wednesday.
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JERUSALEM, Jan. 7 -- Israel paused its military operations in the Gaza Strip for three hours on Wednesday to allow for deliveries of humanitarian aid, as Israeli leaders said they were considering an Egyptian proposal for a more lasting ceasefire.
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An audio message attributed to Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the highest ranking former member of Saddam Hussein's regime still at large, salutes the "People of Palestine" and calls on them to fight back against Israel in Gaza.
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Under pressure to ease its 12-day bombardment of the Gaza Strip, Israel agreed to suspend the fighting three hours a day and permit aid delivery.
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Israel is applying the military insight it gained from the 2006 war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, but diplomatic lessons do not seem to have been so well applied.
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A Hamas rocket strikes an Israeli town less than 20 miles from Tel Aviv. Street battles between Israeli forces and militants continue across the Gaza Strip. Calls by Arab and European leaders for a cease-fire in the Gaza conflict intensified Tuesday in the aftermath of a mortar attack by Israeli forces on a United Nations school that killed at least 30 Palestinians who had sought shelter there.
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