Gaza
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Sinn Féin leader refused entry to Gaza Strip because of his support for Palestinians and plans to meet Hamas
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Club Deportivo Palestino has become a focal point for tensions between Santiago’s sizeable Arab and Jewish communities
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Israeli police say 16-year-old stabbed two people in a supermarket in the West Bank
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Israel, Cyprus and Greece seek commission meeting to discuss massive pipeline project in politically sensitive waters
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Authoritarian regimes the world over reacted to protests with thinly disguised glee, noting scenes of unrest in Missouri undermined US credibility to criticise other countries on human rights
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Paul Mason: People who believe that showing violent images from conflict zones will deter killing are mistaken
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Cardinal Vincent Nichols toured areas of Gaza devastated during the conflict between Israel and Hamas in the summer
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Fadel Mohammed Halawa shot near Jabaliya refugee camp, says Palestinian ministry, in first killing since Gaza war ended
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Middle East Live Jerusalem synagogue attack: protests and clashes flare after day of mourning – as it happened
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Norwegian has worked in Gaza for 15 years and will resist attempts at stopping him returning there
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The long read: He neither looked nor sounded like a natural leader. Yet Yasser Arafat dominated Palestinian politics for a generation before his death 10 years ago. How did he do it, and how much of a shadow does he still cast?
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Gaza war and the ‘hostile media coverage’ it sparked behind rise in assaults, harassment and hate speech, say Jewish groups
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War crimes court says killing of Turkish activists by Israeli commandos in 2010 not of sufficient gravity to warrant inquiry
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Amnesty International says Israel displayed ‘callous indifference’ in attacks on family homes during military campaign in Gaza
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Letters: British aid, you say, should be used to impose sanctions on corruption in poor countries and make them think it’s a bad thing. As if they didn’t know it, and as if the British were so pure
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Erez and Kerem Shalom crossing points were closed last week in response to a rocket fired from Gaza into Israeli territory
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Michael Luongo: With pledges of $5.4bn for Gaza’s postwar reconstruction, and hotels intact, some see a chance to reconnect with the world
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Nobel peace prize winner says money will go through UN agency and help rebuild 65 schools in Palestinian territory
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Jewish actor criticises Israel over 50-day Gaza conflict and claims English literature is full of ‘greasy and treacherous Jews’
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The continuing crisis on the Turkish-Syrian border, the sentencing of Oscar Pistorius, the attack on Canada’s parliament – the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week
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Female officer and male soldier injured after their vehicle is struck by anti-tank missile in southern Negev desert
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The Ebola outbreak, the continuing crisis on the Turkish-Syrian border, the return of Kim Jong-un – the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week
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UN chief visits under tight security to view destruction from the 50-day conflict and demand justice for shelling of UN facilities
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Non-binding vote, supported by 274 MPs with 12 voting against, said to reflect changing public opinion
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Jonathan Powell’s advocacy of dialogue with Islamist terrorist groups glosses over some fundamental obstacles, writes Jason Burke
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• 100,000 without homes before onset of winter
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Letters: We, as leaders and activists in British Muslim communities, call upon MPs in parliament to support the motion in favour of Britain’s recognition of the state of Palestine at the debate tabled for Monday 13 October
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Warsi calls on MPs to lead by example and recognise state of Palestine in potentially historic vote on Monday
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In her first major interview since resigning from the cabinet, Baroness Warsi tells Mark Townsend the government has lost its moral compass over the Middle East – and that she is not the only Tory who thinks the party’s foreign policy is misguided
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The pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, the Mount Ontake volcano eruption, the continuing crisis in Iraq and Syria – the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week
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Jonathan Freedland speaks about the separation of Jewishness and Zionism
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Mehdi Hasan speaks about the challenges of tackling bigotry when the tools of a usual argument – facts, case studies, statistics – do not work in the face of conspiracy theories
A modest proposal: Qatar could win by letting Gaza host the World Cup