American nun, priest join Gaza standoff
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An American priest and nun spent several hours Wednesday at a militant's home that Israel has targeted for destruction, the first foreigners to join a weeklong standoff between Palestinian "human shields" and the Israeli air force.
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Nablus church attacked  On 16 September, Palestinian news agencies report on an attack on a Gaza church by a group threatening to 'blow up all the churches in Gaza,' orders by the Palestinian interior minister to protect Palestinian churches, and condemnations of other attacks in Nablus.
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Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen traded heavy fire Saturday during a standoff at a fugitives' hide-out, and doctors said a 16-year-old Palestinian was killed.
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US authorities arrest two alleged members of Palestinian militant group Hamas on racketeering and terrorism charges.
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Israeli and Palestinian officials begin negotiations to end a massive army operation in Gaza, Israeli sources say.
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Sunday&#39;s attack on the army&#39;s outpost near the Rafah crossing in southern Gaza, which killed five IDF soldiers and wounded six others, was a product of close cooperation between the Strip&#39;s armed factions and the notorious Samhadana clan.
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Â·  Palestinian gunmen planned to snatch soldierÂ·  One shot dead after attack on unmanned watchtower
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NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. marines and a radical Iraqi  cleric were locked in a tense standoff on Thursday after the  firebrand leader refused to leave a holy shrine in Najaf  despite earlier agreeing to disarm his militia and withdraw.
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The group of armed men belonging to Fatah&#39;s Al-Aqsa Martyrs&#39; Brigades, who opened fire in the official mourning tent for Yasser Arafat in Gaza on Monday, is affiliated with Ahmed Hallas (Abu Mazher), Fatah secretary in Gaza.
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Gaza City - A group of men armed with assault rifles and revolvers kidnapped an employee of US television channel CNN in Gaza City late on Monday, CNN and witnesses said.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - A fierce gunbattle erupted early on  Monday between U.S. troops and radical Shi'ite militants near  Najaf's holy shrine, a Reuters witness said.
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A view shows Gaza from an Israeli guard tower at the border area of the Gaza strip and the Jewish settelment of Nissanit. Photo: AFP.
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GAZA CITY, Sept 27  - A group of men armed with assault rifles and revolvers kidnapped an employee of US television channel CNN in Gaza City late Monday, CNN and witnesses said.
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NAJAF, Iraq  Militants loyal to firebrand cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said Saturday that they handed over the keys to a revered Muslim shrine to Shiite religious leaders a big step toward resolving a 2-week-old standoff in the holy city of Najaf.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Militants loyal to firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr remained in control of a revered Shiite shrine at the center of the crisis in Najaf on Saturday, as they bickered with top Shiite religious leaders over how to hand the holy site over.    As the standoff dragged on, heavy clashes broke out for about 45 minutes near the cemetery and the Old City on Saturday afternoon between al-Sadr's militiamen and U.S...
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JERUSALEM - Israel and the Palestinian Authority were engaged in intensive efforts Tuesday morning to secure the release of an Israeli Druze employee of CNN who was kidnapped by masked men in Gaza City.
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Palestinian militants fired two mortars at a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip today, killing a 24-year-old Israeli-American woman and enflaming settlersâ anger at Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.