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Page last updated at 17:12 GMT, Saturday, 17 January 2009
Damage outside a UN school hit by Israeli fire on 17 January
Israel 'to announce ceasefire'
Israel is to announce an end to offensive military operations in its three week campaign against Gaza militants, the BBC learns.
Bowen diary: Is this the end?
BBC reporter in Rafah
In pictures: Gaza conflict
Brown in UK naval offer for Gaza
Peace 'a mirage' for Palestinians
Gaza conflict: Timeline
Gaza strikes ahead of truce vote

Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai arrives at his house in Harare on 17 January 2009 Tsvangirai goes back to Zimbabwe
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai returns to Zimbabwe after an absence of more than two months.

Barack Obama (file image) Obama begins historic rail trip
US President-elect Barack Obama retraces Abraham Lincoln's steps as he heads to Washington to assume the presidency.


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Capital's black community on the Obama presidency
A man checks his grain after receiving it through the UK charity Oxfam in Chirumhanzi, south east of Harare. Crunch time?
Coming days could hold key to Zimbabwe crisis
Drugs Sick and poor
Added burden of unequal healthcare in the US

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EUROPE
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MIDDLE EAST
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SOUTH ASIA
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