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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rightwing Likud party prepared for a primary on Sunday amid signs its popularity is slipping among Israelis who would have preferred a ground invasion of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. (AFP PHOTO)
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Israel firms up security as Gaza truce takes hold

The army reported arresting 28 suspected West Bank militants, including five members…

Liliana Mihaila
Liliana Mihaila
israeli air strikes on gaza

Palestinian ‘killed by Israeli fire’: medics

The first casualty since the two sides agreed on a truce

Rana Allam
Rana Allam

Israel-Gaza ceasefire holds

Attacks on Gaza and Israel halt as ceasefire takes effect

Sara Abou Bakr
Sara Abou Bakr

Syria rebels set up camp on hilltop Base 46

Rebel fighters seized the hilltop base in the embattled province of Aleppo…

Sara Abou Bakr
Sara Abou Bakr
President of the opposition Syrian National Council George Sabra speaks to reporters on the sidelines of a conference focusing on investment in future Syria in the Gulf emirate of Dubai. (AFP PHOTO / KARIM SAHIB)
Daily News Egypt

SNC says $60 billion needed in six months after Assad falls

Over 500 regional and international delegates were meeting in a series of…

Sara Abou Bakr
Sara Abou Bakr
he body of Palestinian boy Abdel Rahman Majdi Naim lies in a hospital morgue after he was killed in a second Israeli strike on the building housing AFP's offices in Gaza city, according to Hamas health officials, on 21 November. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)
AFP

Egypt announces ceasefire in Gaza to start at 9pm

Agreement to be implemented within 24 hours

Sara Abou Bakr
Sara Abou Bakr
Pakistani security officials scan the site of a bomb explosion in Quetta. (AFP PHOTO / BANARAS KHAN)
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Bomb hits Pakistan soldiers, kills five

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack

Liliana Mihaila
Liliana Mihaila
M23 paramilitaries celebrate in the streets after taking Goma. Photograph. (AFP / GETTY IMAGES / Phil Moore)
Congo

DRC rebels say they will not stop at Goma

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon issued a new condemnation of "grave" human…

Liliana Mihaila
Liliana Mihaila
Rosie Harper, vicar of Great Missenden, addresses the Church of England General Synod at Church House in central London. The Church of England's draft legislation approving women bishops failed to pass its governing body the General Synod by a razor-thin margin on Tuesday. (AFP PHOTO)
Daily News Egypt

Anglicans in crisis talks after women bishops rejected

The Church of England will not formally be able to raise the…

Liliana Mihaila
Liliana Mihaila
Parliament speaker confirms Iran sent military aid to Hamas. (AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE)
Daily News Egypt

Iran sent military aid to Hamas, says parliament speaker

The Fajr 5 missiles launched at Tel Aviv "have not been delivered…

Liliana Mihaila
Liliana Mihaila