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Israel, Gaza militants trade fire after talks fail

By Ibrahim Barzak and Ian Deitch - Associated Press

Palestinian protesters face Israeli soldiers, following a demonstration to support people in Gaza and Palestinian negotiators in Cairo, Egypt, during clashes near the West Bank city of Nablus on Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. Israel and Hamas are observing a five-day cease-fire which began at midnight Wednesday, in an attempt to allow talks between the sides in Cairo to continue. The negotiations are meant to secure a substantive end to the monthlong war and draw up a roadmap for the coastal territory of Gaza, which has been hard-hit in the fighting. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

Sides in Gaza talks dig in as cease-fire end looms

By Mohammed Daraghmeh and Peter Enav - Associated Press

A Palestinian man talks to a boy carrying containers as they stand amid the rubble of al-Qassam mosque, hit by an Israeli airstrike. Hamas officials said they were holding out in hopes of getting more concessions in the curretn Egyptian-mediated talks. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Palestinian divisions emerge in truce talks

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A Palestinian protester throws a piece of concrete at Israeli soldiers during clashes, following a protest against the Israeli military action over Hamas in Gaza, in the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi) ** FILE **

EU says status quo for Gaza ‘not an option’

By Mohammed Daraghmeh and Juergen Baetz - Associated Press

Gaza truce extension fans hope of lasting deal

By Mohammed Daraghmeh - Associated Press

A supporter of Hamas holds a representation of a rocket as others shout slogans against the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, during a protest in the West Bank town of Tulkarem town on Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. A Palestinian man was shot and killed during clashes with Israeli troops near Tulkarem, Palestinian security sources said. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)

Israeli official: ‘No point’ in trying to negotiate with Hamas for Gaza truce

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Palestinians gather around the Hamas green flag-draped bodies of 17 members of the Abu Jamea immediate and extended family, killed by an Israeli strike at their house, during their funeral at the main mosque in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Monday, July 21, 2014. The top Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip signaled Monday that the Islamic militant group will not agree to an unconditional cease-fire with Israel, while Israel's defense minister pledged to keep fighting "as long as necessary," raising new doubt about the highest-level mediation mission in two weeks. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

U.S. to send $47M in humanitarian aid to Gaza Strip

By Lara Jakes - Associated Press

In Gaza City, Palestinian relatives grieve for four boys from the same extended Bakr family. The cousins, ages 9 to 11, were killed while playing on a beach. (Associated Press photographs)

Egyptians increasingly critical of Hamas

By Mohamed Abdelbaky and Angela Waters and Janelle Dumalaon — Special to The Washington Times

FILE - In this Thirsday, June 19, 2014 file photo, Palestinians watch a World Cup football game on a wide screen on the beach of Gaza City. Politics and conflict are never far from soccer in the Middle East, but this year's World Cup has been entangled with unprecedented sectarian violence and soaring tensions between Arab countries, pushing fans to watch matches in secret or even on a channel owned by region's number one enemy _ Israel.(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

Arab football fans turn to Israel TV for World Cup

By BARBARA SURK - Associated Press

Egypt’s Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi sworn in as president

By Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press

A man uses beads for prayer as he sits outside a polling center in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Egyptian authorities scrambled to rescue the country's presidential election from the embarrassment of a low voter turnout, but few people trickled to the polls on Wednesday even after the balloting was extended for a third day. A low turnout will likely rob the all-but-certain winner, former army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, of the overwhelming show of public support he sought in the vote. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Egypt polls open for 3rd day, few voters show up

By HAMZA HENDAWI and MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

An Egyptian man reads a local newspaper with the headline in Arabic reading, &quot;Egypt surprises the world,&quot; outside a polling station in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, May 27, 2014. Egyptians were lining up to vote on Tuesday, the second and final day of the presidential election with the country's former military chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi poised for an almost certain victory. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Turnout low, Egypt extends presidential vote a day

By LAURA DEAN and SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this Saturday, April 26, 2014, file photo, ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak attends a hearing in his retrial over charges of failing to stop killings of protesters during the 2011 uprising that led to his downfall, in the Police Academy-turned-court in the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Tarek el Gabbas, File)

Egypt’s Mubarak convicted of graft, gets 3 years

By Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press

Funerals set for 2 killed in botched Ill. holdup

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Cairo remembers women killed during botched holdup

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FILE -- In this Wednesday, May 23, 2012 file photo, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, center, observes the election process inside a polling station in the Sayeda Aisha neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt. Carter is warning Egypt that its transition to democracy after years of political turmoil is faltering ahead of presidential elections planned for later this month, in a statement Friday, May 16, 2014. His Carter Center won’t be sending observers for Egypt’s May 26-27 election, which many believe retired Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi handily will win following the overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi last year that he led. (AP Photo/Thomas Hartwell, File )

Former US President Carter ‘concerned’ over Egypt

By MARIAM RIZK - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by the Illinois Department of Corrections shows James Watts, f Cairo, Ill. On Friday, May 16, 2014, Watts, 29, a former convict who authorities say is a suspect in a deadly southern Illinois bank robbery in Cairo, was charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. The region's U.S. Attorney's Office says Watts was arrested Thursday on a railroad trestle in Cairo hours after a First National Bank branch was robbed. Authorities say two bank employees were killed and a third employee was critically injured. (AP Photo/Illinois Department of Corrections)

Felon faces gun charge tied to deadly bank robbery

By JIM SUHR - Associated Press

The entrance to a stadium were around 15 people died over the weekend in the city of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Monday, May 12, 2014. The stampede at a soccer stadium in Congo’s capital on Sunday also injured more than a dozen, government officials said. (AP Photo/John Bompengo)

Stadium of Congo stampede to host game

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FILE - In this file photo taken Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013, Egyptian policemen stand guard at the scene of a powerful explosion, believed to be a car bomb, at a police headquarters building that killed at least a dozen people, wounded more than 100, and left scores buried under the rubble, in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura, 110 kilometers (70 miles) north of Cairo, Egypt. On Saturday May 10, 2014. Egypt's chief prosecutor's office says it has charged 200 suspected militants with carrying out terrorist attacks that killed 40 policeman and 15 civilians, and of conspiring with al-Qaida and the Palestinian militant group Hamas in one of the country's largest terrorism-related cases. (AP Photo/Ahmed Ashraf, File)

Egypt to try 200 suspected of terrorist attacks

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

W.Va. agency to hold workshop on dam safety

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