Blair named Mideast envoy, Israel kills 12 in Gaza
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World powers named Tony Blair as their Middle East peace envoy on Wednesday, handing the outgoing British prime minister a daunting new challenge on a day Israeli forces killed 12 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
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Ten Palestinians, including an 11-year-old girl, were killed by Israeli forces as a day of violence erupted on the West Bank and the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in Israel on Monday for his first trip as the international community's Mideast envoy.
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Israel killed nine Palestinians and injured 20 in military operations in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, and threatened a major ground sweep of the Hamas-run territory to stem cross-border rocket fire.
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The Middle East negotiating Quartet has appointed former British prime minister Tony Blair as its representative, the United Nations announced on Wednesday.
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Leaders of the Middle East Quartet on Thursday met Tony Blair in his new role as the group&#39;s special envoy, with the United States insistent on taking the lead in the search for peace.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has landed in Israel for talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders on reviving the Middle East peace process following the death of Yasser Arafat.
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Israel pounded Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least four fighters, and seized a minister in Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's cabinet, stepping up a campaign against the ruling Islamists.
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Allies backed former British prime minister Tony Blair in his new role as Middle East peace envoy for the main global powers but the Hamas movement poured scorn on the nomination.
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Israel killed Hamas's top bomb and rocket  maker in Gaza and launched a missile strike on the home of  another leading militant on Friday in the run-up to a key  parliamentary vote on a plan to quit the occupied territory.
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Ten Palestinians and three Israelis were  killed in Gaza on Thursday as Israeli forces thrust deep into  the largest Palestinian refugee camp after a rocket attack  killed two Israeli children in a border town.
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The four powers sponsoring the stagnant Middle East peace process met on Tuesday for the first time since Hamas seized Gaza, amid mounting speculation they could anoint outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair as their envoy.
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Tony Blair was to meet Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Tuesday as he continued his fact-finding maiden visit to the region as the new envoy for the Middle East peace Quartet.
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Tony Blair continues his first Mid-East visit as the Quartet's special envoy by meeting Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair spent his last full day in office Tuesday facing growing speculation that he would be named as an international envoy to the Middle East.
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Western powers struggled on Tuesday to finalize a role for outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair as Middle East envoy in their bid to revive peace prospects after Islamist Hamas's takeover of the Gaza Strip.
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Western powers have agreed to name outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair as Middle East envoy, as a bid to revive peace prospects after Islamist Hamas's takeover of Gaza, an official in Washington said on Tuesday.