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A destroyed Civil Defense ambulance is seen on a street following an Israeli military offensive on the Shejaia neighborhood between Gaza City and the Israeli border on July 20, 2014. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)
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A Swiftair MD-83 airplane is seen in this undated photo, the same type of aircraft as the missing Air Algerie plane. (Reuters/Xavier Larrosa)
Contact lost with Air Algerie plane carrying 116 people from Burkina Faso
Algiers, Reuters—Authorities have lost contact with an Air Algerie flight en route from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso to Algiers with 110 passengers on board, Algeria’s APS state news agency and a Spanish airline company said on Thursday. APS said authorities lost...Caption:
Lebanese army soldiers take their positions outside the Duroy hotel where a suicide bomber blew himself up in his room, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, June 25, 2014, as Lebanese security forces raided the premises. The bombing is the latest in a string of attacks and security sweeps in Lebanon over the past week that have […]
Opinion: Lebanon Up in the Air
One of the few mentionable merits of Lebanese politics—compared to the situation in neighboring Arab countries—is that everything is open and clear. The Lebanese people have now grown accustomed to believing in conspiracy theories, even when there are no conspiracies....Caption:
Passengers check a departure time flight board displaying various cancellations at Ben Gurion International airport, near Tel Aviv, Israel, on July 23, 2014. (AFP Photo/Gil Cohen-Magen)
American flights expected back in Tel Aviv in hours
Gaza/Jerusalem, Reuters—Israel won a partial reprieve from the economic pain of its Gaza war on Thursday with the lifting of a US ban on commercial flights to Tel Aviv, as fighting pushed the Palestinian death toll over 700. A truce remained elusive despite intensive...Caption:
Minister of Justice and Public Security, Anders Anundsen (L), the head of the Norwegian intelligence service (PST), Benedicte Bjoernland and head of the police Vidar Refvik attend a press conference in Oslo on July, 24, 2014. (AFP PHOTO / NTB scanpix / HEIKO JUNGE)