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Concerns are in the air both globally and local to the region, about activities of the coordinated sort involving use of terror, extremism, violence, and incendiary methods, after several buses caught fire around the same time, and hints that others may have wound up the same if the incendiary devices actually ignited.

The obvious aspect of it was a similar type of target, situation, and events occurred around the same time, gives natural rise to the thought that there may be the element of 'c...
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Regardless of the details of how it happened, there are numerous reports that somewhere between 30 and 45 souls, human individuals, perished over the past few hours. Rafah, Gaza, Palestine area. Perhaps there was some kind of projectile or some kind of physical object with properties of explosive device involved.
Who shot it, what was it's initial or final objective, was the end-result on purpose or mishap?, or somewhere in between there?, at this point may not matter but so much, when discuss...
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Turbulence in the Gaza region continues.  What we are alluding to when it said flares continue or flareups, has to do with a comparison, and can refer to the distance readers of the news are to the situation of Gaza, which might not be their choice purposely.  Explaining, readers of newspapers in and around the Washington DC area, might not see on front page news everyday, the status of developments and events concerning the Gaza region, thence, when a shocking event happens, such as persons ...
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United States Secretary of State Kerry, post recent truce effort in Egypt, is now in Paris along with high ranking representatives of a number of countries, in an ongoing stride toward a truce of some sort between Hamas and the Israeli military that has taken military action in the past few weeks.

For those that have vivid memories of the Anwar Sadat era and Camp David agreements, moments with Yasir Arafat in September of 1993 in Washington, a number of questions seem to present themselves sim...
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He was rushed to the hospital after the impact of a blast.  According to reports, at what has been described as a military hospital, he left this world.
Jamal Muhammad al Jamal, Palestinian Ambassador to Czechoslovakia,  apparently was moving some kind of safe that had an explosive laden device attached, which detonated.  The event occurring at his apartment or very close to, in the city of Prague in Czechoslovakia.

A delegation, according to consensus of news agencies, is sent or being sent by...
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Intensity of relations and non-relations of governments have existed over thousands of years.  China versus Japan, Iran versus Iraq, and the list stops here, as what is past, has past.  There are leaders that have reached levels that can be described as eclat.  The normality amongst leaders despite intensities of rifts past, often is to show gestures of respect whereon appropriate moments.

There were media news stories portraying the financial expenses involved in attending the Mandela memoria...
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