Egypt offers to host crucial peace talks | UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council was set to resume debate Wednesday on an Arab call for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip as Egypt offered to host peace talks with Israel and the Pales... (photo: WN ALI OMAR )The Manila Times
Frustrated medical staff forced to wait at border | RAFAH - Frustration has been mounting at Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip, where many local and foreign doctors have been waiting for days for Egyptian permission to enter the area. | Yesterday, a... (photo: AP / Tara Todras-Whitehill)NZ Herald
Israel cabinet welcomes Gaza truce | THE Israeli security cabinet has welcomed a Franco-Egyptian initiative to end the 12-day-old fighting in Gaza but stopped short of endorsing it. | "Israel thanks the Egyptian president and the ... (photo: AP / David Furst, Pool)The Australian DefenceEgyptGazaIsraelPhotos
Egypt best placed to broker end to crisis | TONY Blair was right to point to Egypt as the means to an early cooling of the Gaza crisis. Egypt acknowledged the need for it to play some kind of role by hosting a delegation of Palestinians from ... (photo: AP Photo / Nasser Nasser)The Australian EgyptGazaIsraelPhotosWar
Israel opens up corridor for relief | ISRAEL last night opened a humanitarian corridor into the Gaza Strip - a key point of an Egyptian plan to end the 12-day-old campaign that has killed at least 680 Pales... (photo: AP / Adel Hana)The Australian AidDefenceGazaIsraelPhotos
Ground realities in Gaza | By Richard M Bennett | Israel's patience with Hamas finally snapped on December 27, 2008. The government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Tel Aviv finally took the mome... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)Asia Times AttacksCasualtiesGazaIsraelPhotos
Property prospects look bleak | By Roy Cockayne | The residential property market faces bleak prospects this year as distressed sales and sales in execution encounter reduced demand and the fall in ho... (photo: WN/Theresa Poongan)Independent online BusinessEconomyIndustryMarketPhotos
Brangelina to adopt 4th child | Los Angeles - Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are reportedly set to adopt another Ethiopian child. | The couple - who already have three biological children Shiloh, two, s... (photo: AP Photo / Francois Mori)News24 AdoptCelebrityEntertainmentPhotosStars
UN warned of South Sudan violence | The UN must boost its peacekeepers' mandate in Sudan to protect civilians amid fears political violence could erupt in the south, says an aid agency. | Refugees Interna... (photo: UN / Tim McKulka)BBC News AfricaPhotosPoliticsSudanUNWar
