Ceasefire
Jun 25 2008, Madhuri Katti

Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, due to face parliament dissolution bill, has lost last chance to make ceasefire negotiations with Hamas mediated by Egypt work in his favour. A rocket attack on Israeli border town of Sderot from Hamas controlled...

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Men clean up a barber shop as shops started reopening in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, May 11, 2008. On the first day of a cease-fire in Baghdad’s Sadr City between Shiite militants and U.S.-backed Iraqi forces,...