Gaza power plant to close
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Gaza's only electrical plant announced it would shut down Sunday after an Israeli border closure blocked the entry of fuel that powers it. The move is certain to make life more difficult for the 1.5 million residents of the already impoverished territory.
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Egyptian security forces closed the border with the Gaza Strip yesterday nearly two weeks after the wall was first breached
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Egypt will close its breached border with Gaza on Sunday, and Hamas will not stand in the way, a Hamas leader said.
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The truce is expected to end the five-month Israeli military offensive into Gaza and rocket attacks from Palestinian militants
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A 17-day Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip, the biggest in four years, came to an end after the army withdrew from the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza.
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Israeli and Palestinian officials have begun negotiations to end a week-long Israeli army operation in north Gaza, Israeli security sources say.
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Israel resumed fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip's main power plant on Tuesday, offering limited respite from a blockade that plunged much of the Hamas-ruled territory into darkness and touched off international protests.
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Egyptian soldiers deploy rolls of barbed wire as they start to close the Gaza/Egypt border
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The United Nations nuclear watchdog confirmed today that North Korea had shut down all the remaining facilities at its main nuclear complex after the recent closure of its sole working reactor.
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Israel shuts it crossings with the Gaza Strip, and the UN says it cannot deliver aid to the territory.
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Gaza City awoke Monday to shuttered bread shops and gas stations, prompting fears of a humanitarian crisis as Israel pressed ahead with efforts to stop Palestinian rocket fire, refusing to reopen crossings or allow in crucial fuel supplies.
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The Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip ordered the shutdown Monday of private clinics run by doctors loyal to the West Bank-based Fatah government, a new blow to a medical system already crippled by the Palestinian power struggle.
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An Electrolux cooker factory in County Durham is to close with the loss of 500 jobs, it is confirmed.
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A unit at a Bulgarian nuclear power station on the Danube River underwent an emergency shutdown Saturday, facility operators said.
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Israel's attorney general has temporarily halted the government's plan to cut back on electricity to the Gaza Strip, demanding more work to prevent humanitarian harm.
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Senior officials from rival Fatah and Hamas factions agreed on Saturday to pull their gunmen off the streets of Gaza and halt bloodshed that has killed 23 Palestinians in the last three days.
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Israel's military is to cut off electricity and fuel to the Gaza Strip in response to continued rocket attacks from Hamas.