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School hit piles pressure on Israel

Israel is facing mounting pressure to agree a ceasefire, as fighting continues in the wake of an attack on a UN school in Gaza.

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Analysts say Hamas would likely stop rocket fire into Israel if an 18-month siege of Gaza is lifted [AFP]

France retracts truce deal claim

The office of Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, has retracted statements it made saying that Israel and the Palestinian Authority had accepted a Franco-Egyptian peace plan for Gaza.

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Nasrallah commended Hugo Chavez for expelling Israel's ambassador to Caracas [AFP]

Hezbollah 'ready to fight Israel'

Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, has warned that "all possibilities" are open against Israel as he gave a fiery speech in which he blasted Israel's offensive in Gaza and voiced support for Hamas.

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Abbas is attempting to get a UN resolution calling for a ceasefire [AFP]

US backs Egypt ceasefire plan

The US secretary of state has expressed support for a joint French-Egyptian plan aimed at implementing an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

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Obama has repeatedly said that, until he is sworn in, only Bush can speak on US foreign policy [Reuters]

Obama 'deeply concerned' over Gaza

Barack Obama, the US president-elect, has expressed "deep concern" over the number of civilian casualties in Gaza and Israel during the conflict there.

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The attacks on multiple targets in Mumbai left 179 people dead

Pakistan rejects India 'propaganda'

Pakistan has rejected as "propaganda" comments by India's prime minister that Pakistani authorities must have know about and supported last November's deadly attacks in Mumbai.

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Row hits European gas supplies

The Ukrainian president has demanded that Russia resume gas shipments to Europe "immediately" after supplies were halted following a debt row and accusations of theft.

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Oct 27 2008
Chavez calls Palin a confused 'beauty queen' | Print |  E-mail
By Shahram Vahdany   
(Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, renowned for colourful insults of world leaders, called U.S. vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin a confused "beauty queen" on Friday after she said he was a dictator.

Chavez, a leftist who often mocks U.S. President George W. Bush, invoked the advice of Jesus Christ on how to handle the slights by Palin, the Republican governor of Alaska and a former beauty pageant winner.

"I saw the vice presidential candidate, there she was talking about 'the dictator Hugo Chavez.' The poor thing, you just feel sorry for her," he said during a televised broadcast.

"She's a beauty queen that they've pulled out to be a figurehead. We need to say as Christ did: Forgive her, she knows not what she's saying."

Republican presidential candidate John McCain picked Palin, who calls herself a moose-hunting "hockey mom," as his running mate for the November 4 election in a surprise move meant to fire up the party's conservative Christian base.

McCain and his Democratic rival Barack Obama have promised to reduce U.S. dependence on oil from Venezuela, which supplies about 11 percent of total U.S. oil imports.

The highly popular Chavez, who ousted the U.S. ambassador to Venezuela in September, has described the United States as a decadent empire and has revelled in the U.S. financial crisis.

The loquacious leader made headlines in 2006 by calling Bush "the devil" at a United Nations assembly. He also sparked controversy by calling German Chancellor Angela Merkel a political descendant of Adolf Hitler.

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