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A United Nations-run warehouse blazing after it was shelled by Israeli forces in Gaza City on Thursday.
By ISABEL KERSHNER
As the war entered its 21st day, Ban Ki-moon urged Israel to consider a unilateral cease-fire, reports said.
By CELIA W. DUGGER
More than a dozen opposition activists say they were tortured to obtain false confessions after they were abducted and detained for weeks by agents of President Robert Mugabe's government.
By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS
More than a month has passed since an Iraqi television reporter threw his shoes at President George W. Bush during a news conference.
By ELISABETH BUMILLER AND THOM SHANKER
The new plans would provide alternatives to a timetable drawn up by the top commanders to bring troops home more slowly than Obama promised during his campaign.
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Diplomats met privately Wednesday at UN headquarters to focus on methods of fighting the rise of piracy off Somalia's lawless coastline, where 11 vessels with 210 crew members are now in pirate hands.
By ALISSA J. RUBIN AND SAM DAGHER
An election law that originally guaranteed 25 percent of the seats would be set aside for women was changed several times.
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By ETHAN BRONNER
Israel's critics abroad call the Gaza war a disproportionate response. In Israel, very few people see it that way.
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
Gulf states like the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia are making a push to become the Silicon Valley of alternative energy.
By LYDIA POLGREEN
General Laurent Nkunda, the leader of the Tutsi-dominated rebel group known as the CNDP, is fighting off an attempt to topple him by Jean Bosco Ntaganda, the group's chief of staff.
- U.S. pact seen as step toward Gaza cease-fire
- Hamas rejects Israeli cease-fire terms
- Lawyer fears for reporter who threw his shoes at Bush
- Israel lets reporters see launch site
- Opponents of Mugabe tell court of torture
- As fighting continues, Palestinian Authority loses sway
- Egypt cites progress toward truce as Gaza toll exceeds 1,000
- Israel says Hamas is damaged, not destroyed
- Ethiopians withdraw from key bases in Somalia
- Political foe of president in Sudan is arrested, his family says
- Bin Laden, in tape, calls for jihad against Israel
- Defiant Hamas fighters say military wing is adapting
- Refugee surge raises concerns of a broader Gaza war
- Somali pirates free Japanese carrier and 21 crew
- Iran tones down its vocal support for Hamas
- Zuma faces new charges
- Bombings in Iraq as Biden arrives
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