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News: Two foreign troops killed by rogue Afghan soldier Quake of 7.4 magnitude hits off El Salvador coast: USGS Samsung shares shed $12 billion after Apple's legal victory Canada housing affordability drops in second quarter Venezuela struggles with refinery blaze after deadly blast More than 150 Haitians detained in Bahamas after boat runs aground Assad's forces accused of massacre near Syrian capital Nigeria navy frees 28 kidnapped oil workers Graffiti artists thrive in reform-era Myanmar Dutch Liberals, Socialists in close race ahead of vote Analysis: Politics the priority for China as economy slows Pakistan pioneers lead epic struggle for more milk Under China's watch, Macau won't return to "Gangster's Paradise" Britain wants to restart Assange talks with Ecuador Venezuela will not restart refinery until fire is out: official Nigeria in talks with Islamists via "back channels" Afghans say top Haqqani leader was killed in U.S. drone strike Libya minister quits after criticism over attacks Venezuela: refinery to restart in two days after fire Argentine leader's image falls as inflation soars Eleven corpses turn up along highway in southwestern Mexico Two dead as clashes flare again in Lebanon's Tripoli Roberto Gonzalez Barrera, ex-head of Mexico's Banorte, dies at 81 Germany wants EU convention to forge new treaty: paper Merkel's party keeps lead, coalition ally down: poll Iran urges developing nations at summit to oppose sanctions Hamas declines invite to Iran summit, citing Palestinian unity Israel arrests 3 settler boys suspected of attack on Palestinians Saudi Arabia arrests suspected militants with al-Qaeda links At least four killed in Ivory Coast gunbattle Egypt seeks regional meeting over Syria crisis Syrian driver says pro-Assad militia killed Japanese journalist Iraq seeks to curb frontier spillover from Syria crisis EU condemns Gambia executions, promises urgent response Murdoch says give Harry a break over naked pictures Syria Vice President makes public appearance, ending defection rumors Two members of punk rock band flee Russia After mourning, Lonmin in race to restart mining Struggling to cope, Turkey stops refugees on Syrian border Cairo court sentences man to jail over Israel embassy attack Two foreign troops killed by rogue Afghan soldier Sun,26 Aug 2012 10:56 PM PDT Reuters - KABUL (Reuters) - Two foreign soldiers were shot dead by a rogue Afghan army soldier in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, the NATO-led coalition said, adding to a series of insider shootings which have damaged trust between the allies. "ISAF troops returned fire, killing the ANA (Afghan National Army) soldier who committed the attack," the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said in a statement. (Reporting by Rob Taylor; Editing by Nick Macfie) Full Story Top Quake of 7.4 magnitude hits off El Salvador coast: USGS Sun,26 Aug 2012 10:23 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - A major earthquake of 7.4 magnitude hit in the Pacific Ocean about 78 miles off the coast of El Salvador late Sunday night, the U.S. Geological Survey said. No destructive Pacific-wide tsunami is expected, and there is no tsunami threat to Hawaii, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said. The center said, however, that although it did not know if a tsunami had been generated, a warning was in effect for Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama and Mexico. ... Full Story Top Samsung shares shed $12 billion after Apple's legal victory Sun,26 Aug 2012 09:39 PM PDT Reuters - SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics shares tumbled around 7 percent on Monday, wiping $12 billion off the South Korean giant's market value, as a sweeping victory for Apple Inc in a U.S. patent lawsuit raised concerns about its smartphone business - its biggest cash cow. Samsung, which says it will contest the verdict, was ordered to pay $1.05 billion in damages after a California jury found it had copied critical features of the hugely popular iPhone and iPad and could face an outright sales ban on key products. ... Full Story Top Canada housing affordability drops in second quarter Sun,26 Aug 2012 09:07 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - Canadian home ownership was less affordable in the second quarter as house prices climbed again in most cities, but demand should cool as new mortgage rules take effect, a report by RBC Economics showed on Monday. The cost of owning a home edged up 0.2 percentage points to 43.4 percent for a detached bungalow and by 0.6 percentage points to 49.4 percent for a two-story home, while the measure for condos was unchanged at 28.8 percent, the RBC Housing Affordability index showed. ... Full Story Top Venezuela struggles with refinery blaze after deadly blast Sun,26 Aug 2012 07:49 PM PDT Reuters - PARAGUANA, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan firefighters struggled on Sunday to put out a blaze at the country's biggest refinery sparked by an explosion that killed 41 people in one of the global oil industry's deadliest accidents. Officials at the 645,000 barrel-per-day Amuay refinery are trying to stop the fire still raging at two storage tanks from spreading to other nearby fuel storage facilities. That would delay Amuay's restart beyond the current estimate of two days. ... Full Story Top More than 150 Haitians detained in Bahamas after boat runs aground Sun,26 Aug 2012 06:51 PM PDT Reuters - NASSAU (Reuters) - More than 150 illegal Haitian migrants are in custody in the Bahamas, after their sail boat ran aground on Andros islands during stormy seas, officials said on Sunday. Jack Thompson, the Bahamas' director of immigration, said in a statement that the Haitians had been detained and were being held in a warehouse and a Roman Catholic Church center on Andros. The Bahamian authorities said they believe up to 200 migrants may have been aboard the boat, which ran aground on Saturday. The U.S. ... Full Story Top Assad's forces accused of massacre near Syrian capital Sun,26 Aug 2012 03:14 PM PDT Reuters - ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - Syrian opposition activists accused President Bashar al-Assad's army of massacring hundreds of people in a town close to the capital that government forces recaptured from rebels. About 320 bodies, including women and children, were found in houses and basements in the town of Daraya, southwest of Damascus, according to activists who said on Sunday most had been killed "execution-style" by troops. Activists uploaded several videos to the Internet showing rows of bloodied bodies wrapped in sheets. ... Full Story Top Nigeria navy frees 28 kidnapped oil workers Sun,26 Aug 2012 02:41 PM PDT Reuters - LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's navy said it had freed 28 local oil workers who were being held hostage by a criminal gang in the oil-producing Niger Delta. The hostages were Nigerian employees of Chinese oil servicing firm Sinopec, navy spokesman Commodore Kabir Aliyu said. They were kidnapped on Thursday by a gang called the Lapto Marine Force operating around the Bakassi waterways in Cross Rivers state and freed in the naval operation late on Friday, he said. "The gang ... ... Full Story Top Graffiti artists thrive in reform-era Myanmar Sun,26 Aug 2012 02:23 PM PDT Reuters - (Note: strong language in paragraph 16) YANGON (Reuters) - A television set with wings hovers on a wall in a murky Yangon sidestreet. "This was my first one," says Aung, 33, pointing proudly to an image he spray-painted last year to protest media censorship and now duplicated across Myanmar's commercial capital. "Media freedom is a big issue for me." Aung, who requested that his full name be withheld, belongs to a new generation of Yangon street artists whose often politically charged graffiti was almost unthinkable before Myanmar's recent burst of reforms. ... Full Story Top Dutch Liberals, Socialists in close race ahead of vote Sun,26 Aug 2012 02:21 PM PDT Reuters - AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch Liberal Party, the pro-business movement led by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, and the far-left Socialists are neck and neck ahead of a September 12 parliamentary election dominated by the euro zone crisis, two polls showed over the weekend. The fiscally conservative country is considered a core euro zone member, but the run-up to the ballot has highlighted growing discontent about Europe - in particular over the high cost of bailing out weaker euro zone states and the pressure for belt-tightening at home. ... Full Story Top Analysis: Politics the priority for China as economy slows Sun,26 Aug 2012 02:20 PM PDT Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - China's policy chiefs have about two weeks left to decide about giving the economy a proper stimulative prod, or risk parading a new Communist Party leadership to the world just as growth falls below target for the first time in nearly four years. Factory activity is already at a nine-month low, according to the latest manufacturing sector survey from HSBC, signaling that the official August numbers for industrial production and trade published in a fortnight will foreshadow third quarter economic growth falling below the government's 7.5 percent goal. ... Full Story Top Pakistan pioneers lead epic struggle for more milk Sun,26 Aug 2012 02:04 PM PDT Reuters - NAROWAL, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani Shahzad Iqbal abandoned the jet-set lifestyle of a corporate executive because he wanted to do something worthwhile for his country. So he invested his life savings in world-class bull semen. He imports the sperm from potent bulls in the West, with names like Socrates, Air Raid and Liberator, and sells it at affordable prices to farmers so they can breed cows that produce higher volumes of quality milk. ... Full Story Top Under China's watch, Macau won't return to "Gangster's Paradise" Sun,26 Aug 2012 02:02 PM PDT Reuters - MACAU (Reuters) - Three murders, hammer-wielding heavies, and a high-profile police swoop have raised concerns that Macau, the world's casino capital, may be backsliding to the bad old days of the late-1990s. And that's even before ex-triad boss "Broken Tooth" ends a 15-year jail sentence in December. All this at a time when China's economy, the world's second-biggest, is growing more slowly - hitting gambling revenue and possibly making junket operators, who collect gambling debts in exchange for commission from casinos, more aggressive. ... Full Story Top Britain wants to restart Assange talks with Ecuador Sun,26 Aug 2012 01:32 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Sunday it remained committed to reaching a diplomatic solution to the presence of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Ecuador's London embassy, after both countries took steps to defuse a row over his action in taking refuge there. Assange has been living in the embassy's cramped quarters for more than two months since fleeing there to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over rape and sexual assault allegations. ... Full Story Top Venezuela will not restart refinery until fire is out: official Sun,26 Aug 2012 12:52 PM PDT Reuters - CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's Amuay refinery will not restart operations until it completely extinguishes a fire caused by an explosion on Saturday, a top refining official with state oil company PDVSA said on Sunday. (Reporting by Marianna Parraga, writing by Brian Ellsworth) Full Story Top Nigeria in talks with Islamists via "back channels" Sun,26 Aug 2012 12:43 PM PDT Reuters - ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's government is reaching out to radical Islamist sect Boko Haram, talking with some of its members via "back room channels" as it seeks a peaceful way out of the north's conflict, the president's spokesman said on Sunday. The militants ruled out peace talks in a statement on Thursday, unless the government accepts their demand to turn the roughly evenly mixed Muslim-Christian country of 160 million people into an Islamic state. But Reuben Abati, spokesman for President Goodluck Jonathan, told journalists talks were going on with some members. ... Full Story Top Afghans say top Haqqani leader was killed in U.S. drone strike Sun,26 Aug 2012 12:30 PM PDT Reuters - KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan said on Sunday it believed that a top commander of the militant Haqqani insurgent network had been killed in a U.S. drone strike, citing intelligence reports that it said countered Afghan Taliban claims that Badruddin Haqqani was still alive. Haqqani, who was head of operations and ran the network's vital business interests, was thought to have been killed during the strike this week in Pakistan's tribal North Waziristan, both Afghanistan's Interior Ministry and national spy agency said. ... Full Story Top Libya minister quits after criticism over attacks Sun,26 Aug 2012 12:14 PM PDT Reuters - TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's interior minister resigned on Sunday, officials said, after he was criticized for failing to halt a surge of attacks on Sufi Muslim shrines that have raised fears of the spread of sectarian violence following the fall of Muammar Gaddafi. Attackers, described as ultra-conservative Islamists by some officials, bulldozed sites sacred to Sufi Muslims in the western city of Zlitan on Friday and the capital Tripoli on Saturday. ... Full Story Top Venezuela: refinery to restart in two days after fire Sun,26 Aug 2012 12:08 PM PDT Reuters - PARAGUANA, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela's biggest refinery is on track to restart within two days, the energy minister said on Sunday, following an explosion on Saturday that killed 41 people in one of the global oil industry's deadliest accidents. Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez said the fire resulting from the blast was contained in two storage tanks, reiterating that no production units had been affected by Saturday's pre-dawn disaster at the 645,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) Amuay refinery, which sits on a peninsula in the Caribbean in western Venezuela. ... Full Story Top Argentine leader's image falls as inflation soars Sun,26 Aug 2012 12:01 PM PDT Reuters - BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine President Cristina Fernandez's popularity sank to 30 percent in August, less than half of what it was a year earlier, according to a poll published on Sunday that portrayed a country worried about crime and high inflation. The telephone survey of 2,259 voting-age Argentines by polling company Management & Fit showed dissatisfaction with the interventionist policies that won Fernandez a landslide re-election 10 months ago. ... Full Story Top Eleven corpses turn up along highway in southwestern Mexico Sun,26 Aug 2012 11:19 AM PDT Reuters - ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) - Eleven corpses showing signs of torture and execution-style gunshot wounds were found in southwest Mexico on Sunday, according to local authorities. Ricardo Monreal, an official with the Guerrero state prosecutor's office, told Reuters the bodies were recovered in three different locations along the coastal highway northwest of the Pacific resort city of Acapulco. ... Full Story Top Two dead as clashes flare again in Lebanon's Tripoli Sun,26 Aug 2012 11:00 AM PDT Reuters - TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - Two people were killed on Sunday in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli, a security source said, where sporadic fighting between Sunni Muslims and Alawites over six days has mirrored sectarian faultlines in the raging conflict in neighboring Syria. Sunnis in Syria have been the driving force of a 17-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, whose minority Alawite sect has dominated the country's political and military elite for more than four decades. At least 18 people have been killed and more than 100 wounded in nearly a week of clashes in Tripoli. ... Full Story Top Roberto Gonzalez Barrera, ex-head of Mexico's Banorte, dies at 81 Sun,26 Aug 2012 10:57 AM PDT Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican businessman Roberto Gonzalez Barrera, chairman emeritus of lender Banorte, died Saturday night in Houston, Texas, as a result of complications from pancreatic cancer. Gonzalez was 81 years old. A native of the northeastern state of Nuevo Leon, Gonzalez previously headed lender Grupo Financiero Banorte, Mexico's fourth-largest bank, and also founded corn miller and tortilla maker Gruma. ... Full Story Top Germany wants EU convention to forge new treaty: paper Sun,26 Aug 2012 10:28 AM PDT Reuters - BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants an EU 'convention' to draw up a new treaty for closer European political unification to help overcome the bloc's sovereign debt crisis, weekly Der Spiegel said on Sunday. Germany, the European Union's biggest economy, has long argued for more national competences, including over budgets, to be transferred to European institutions but faces strong resistance from other member states. Merkel hopes a summit of EU leaders in December can agree a concrete date for the start of the convention on a new treaty, Spiegel said. ... Full Story Top Merkel's party keeps lead, coalition ally down: poll Sun,26 Aug 2012 10:28 AM PDT Reuters - BERLIN (Reuters) - Support for Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives has nudged higher, an opinion poll showed on Sunday, but the weakness of two smaller parties highlights the trouble she may face building another center-right coalition after Germany's 2013 election. The Emnid poll conducted for the Bild on Sunday newspaper showed the conservatives up one percentage point at 36 percent but their junior coalition partner, the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP), down one point at 4 percent, below the 5 percent threshold for entering parliament. ... Full Story Top Iran urges developing nations at summit to oppose sanctions Sun,26 Aug 2012 10:17 AM PDT Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister urged delegates at a Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) developing nations summit on Sunday to oppose sanctions imposed by the West on the Islamic Republic to punish it for its nuclear activities. Western diplomats have sought to play down the importance of NAM at the start of Iran's three-year presidency of the body set up in 1961 to counter big power domination of international relations. However, Iran welcomed delegates from the group of 120 developing nations to the meeting it says proves that Washington has failed to isolate it from the rest of the world. ... Full Story Top Hamas declines invite to Iran summit, citing Palestinian unity Sun,26 Aug 2012 09:49 AM PDT Reuters - GAZA (Reuters) - The Hamas Islamist government in Gaza said it had declined an invitation to a meeting of 120 developing nations in Tehran this week, heading off a potential confrontation with rival Palestinian leaders in the West Bank. Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas's leader in Gaza, had accepted the invite over the weekend but backtracked on Sunday "in order that the participation would not be an introduction to deepening a Palestinian, Arab and Muslim division over the Palestinian cause," said spokesman Taher al-Nono. ... Full Story Top Israel arrests 3 settler boys suspected of attack on Palestinians Sun,26 Aug 2012 09:44 AM PDT Reuters - JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli police arrested three Jewish settler boys suspected of throwing a firebomb earlier this month at a Palestinian vehicle in the West Bank that injured six people, a spokesman said on Sunday. The suspects, aged 12 to 13, from Bat Ayin, a settlement in the occupied West Bank, will appear in court later on Sunday to be remanded into custody, said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld. Four of the passengers wounded in the August 16 attack were members of the same family, two of them children. ... Full Story Top Saudi Arabia arrests suspected militants with al-Qaeda links Sun,26 Aug 2012 09:43 AM PDT Reuters - JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Saudi authorities arrested a group of suspected al Qaeda-linked militants in Riyadh, the Interior Ministry said in a statement on state news agency SPA on Sunday. "After intense surveillance of the cell it was revealed that they have reached an advanced stage in their plan to implement their goals, which include preparing and setting explosives and testing them outside of Riyadh," the ministry said. Security forces arrested six members of the cell - all Yemeni nationals - after arresting their leader, a Saudi, and questioning him, the statement said. ... Full Story Top At least four killed in Ivory Coast gunbattle Sun,26 Aug 2012 08:52 AM PDT Reuters - ABIDJAN (Reuters) - At least four people were killed in an exchange of fire between soldiers and unidentified gunmen at an army checkpoint in southern Ivory Coast, the West African nation's defence minister said on Sunday. The world's top cocoa grower is struggling to cope with a spate of armed raids on police and military installations this month, raising fears of renewed instability following a conflict last year that killed 3,000 people. ... Full Story Top Egypt seeks regional meeting over Syria crisis Sun,26 Aug 2012 07:59 AM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's foreign minister wants Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran and Egypt to meet for talks to work out how to end the Syrian crisis, Egyptian officials said on Sunday, a meeting that would include a regional ally as well as opponents of Damascus. Iran backs Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whose army and air force have been fighting rebels for 17 months, and Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt - under new president, Mohamed Mursi - have all called for an end to Assad's rule. Mursi put forward the plan at an Islamic conference in Saudi Arabia earlier this month. ... Full Story Top Syrian driver says pro-Assad militia killed Japanese journalist Sun,26 Aug 2012 07:59 AM PDT Reuters - AZAZ, Syria (Reuters) - The Syrian driver who took Japanese journalist Mika Yamamoto into the wartorn city of Aleppo said she had been shot dead by militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, after following rebels on a mission to rescue civilians. The 38-year-old driver, who gave his name only as Abdulrahman, told Reuters Yamamoto and her colleague Kazutaka Sato had crossed the Turkish border with two journalists working for the U.S.-funded al-Hurra television, and asked to be taken to the northern city of Aleppo. ... Full Story Top Iraq seeks to curb frontier spillover from Syria crisis Sun,26 Aug 2012 07:59 AM PDT Reuters - BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's military is trying to staunch spillover from Syria's crisis, tightening border controls as its troops exchange fire with gunmen, rockets hit a frontier patrol and Syrian army shells land on an Iraqi border town. Iraq's army last week took over frontier operations. A border crossing to Syria's Albu Kamal is temporarily closed as Syrian forces backed by aircraft and rebels fight to control the town, which sits on key supply routes from Iraq. Spillover from Syria worries an Iraqi government struggling to overcome its own insurgency and legacy of sectarian violence. ... Full Story Top EU condemns Gambia executions, promises urgent response Sun,26 Aug 2012 07:39 AM PDT Reuters - BRUSSELS/BANJUL (Reuters) - The European Union called on Gambia on Sunday to stop executing death row inmates and said the bloc would come up with a quick but unspecified response to executions reported last week. Gambia has neither confirmed nor denied an Amnesty International report saying that nine of its 47 death row inmates had been executed overnight on Thursday. An official in the president's office said a statement would be made on Monday. ... Full Story Top Murdoch says give Harry a break over naked pictures Sun,26 Aug 2012 07:02 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch said Britain's Prince Harry should be given a break, days after his Sun tabloid added to the 27-year-old's embarrassment by printing pictures of him cavorting naked in Las Vegas, in defiance of appeals from Royal lawyers. "Prince Harry. Give him a break. He may be on the public payroll one way or another, but the public loves him, even to enjoy Las Vegas," the media mogul said on Twitter. The Sun, which is part of Murdoch's News Corp empire, broke ranks with the rest of Britain's press by publishing the grainy pictures on Friday. ... Full Story Top Syria Vice President makes public appearance, ending defection rumors Sun,26 Aug 2012 06:22 AM PDT Reuters - DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syria's vice president Farouq al-Sharaa met an Iranian delegation on Sunday, marking the official's first appearance in weeks and ending rumors by opposition activists that he had defected from President Bashar al-Assad's government. The vice president met with a parliamentary delegation from Assad's main regional ally Iran, led by senior legislator Aleddin Borougerdi, according to a Reuters reporter who saw the group with Sharaa outside his office in Damascus. ... Full Story Top Two members of punk rock band flee Russia Sun,26 Aug 2012 06:19 AM PDT Reuters - MOSCOW (Reuters) - Two members of Russia's anti-Kremlin punk band Pussy Riot have fled the country to avoid prosecution for staging a protest against President Vladimir Putin at a church altar, the band said on Sunday. A Moscow court sentenced three members of the all-female opposition band to two years in prison on August 17 for staging a "punk prayer" at the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in February and calling on the Virgin Mary to rid Russia of Putin. ... Full Story Top After mourning, Lonmin in race to restart mining Sun,26 Aug 2012 06:14 AM PDT Reuters - JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - World no. 3 platinum producer Lonmin is racing to resume ore extraction at its Marikana site, with no guarantee striking workers will return this week after a mourning period for comrades killed in a wave of labour unrest. Lonmin's South African operations have been paralysed since an illegal strike involving 3,000 rock driller operators started two weeks ago and exploded into violent clashes that killed 44 people, including 34 striking workers gunned down by police. ... Full Story Top Struggling to cope, Turkey stops refugees on Syrian border Sun,26 Aug 2012 05:40 AM PDT Reuters - ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey has begun temporarily holding thousands of Syrians on the Syrian side of the border as it struggles to cope with a growing wave of refugees. At least 2,000 people fleeing violence in Syria were prevented from entering Turkey overnight at one of several unofficial border crossings in the southern province of Hatay, a Turkish official and witnesses said. "We have run out of space to house these people. We are working to make shelters and when these are completed we will allow these people across," the official told Reuters on condition of anonymity. ... Full Story Top Cairo court sentences man to jail over Israel embassy attack Sun,26 Aug 2012 05:36 AM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - A Cairo court on Sunday sentenced a man to five years in jail and another 75 people to one-year suspended sentences in connection with attacks on the Israeli and Saudi embassies in Cairo last year, a court official said. The man sentenced to five years, named Omar Afifi, had fled abroad and was tried in absentia. Protesters stormed the Israeli embassy in Cairo in September following the killing in August of five Egyptian security guards by Israeli soldiers pursuing militants who had ambushed and killed eight Israelis along the Israeli-Egyptian border. ... Full Story Top

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