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/ 8 February 2009
Israel votes on Tuesday in the wake of the war in Gaza, with the ballot expected to shift the country to the right.
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/ 31 December 2008
Israel mulled proposals for a truce to its Gaza offensive on Wednesday but ruled out any temporary halts.
Snipers patrolling rooftops, streets and entire city blocks sealed off and thousands of police and soldiers on duty — Israel and the Palestinian Authority are going on full alert for United States President George Bush’s visit. For weeks, Israeli and Palestinian officials have grappled with how to ensure the safety of the leader of the world’s sole superpower.
Battered Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert remained defiant on Friday after a mass rally called on him to quit over his failure in the Lebanon war, with the next few weeks seen as key to whether the master politician can cling to power. "The prime minister does not intend to resign," Olmert spokesperson Miri Eisin said.
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/ 3 September 2004
Ambulance sirens screamed and naked, bleeding children wailed in the arms of soldiers amid earth-shattering grenade blasts as the three-day school hostage crisis in Beslan ended in a chaotic bloodbath. "They did not give us water," said one young boy. Another naked boy at a different spot later said: "We drank urine."