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Pope Benedict Wednesday urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders to make "courageous decisions" to end the Gaza conflict, saying it risked spilling over into the rest of the Middle East.

U.S. Secretary of State Clinton announced a cease-fire agreement from Cairo, as fighting continued in Gaza and a bus exploded in Israel.

The Morsi government stands to gain a lot from brokering a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. The hard part? Making it happen.

Israel and Hamas agreed on Wednesday to a ceasefire brokered by Egypt on the eighth day of intensive Israeli fire on the Gaza Strip and militant rocket attacks out of the enclave, Israeli, Palestinian and Egyptian sources said.

A bomb exploded on a bus in central Tel Aviv on Wednesday, wounding at least 10 people in what Israeli officials said was a terrorist attack that could complicate the Gaza cease-fire efforts.

China, whose public support for the Palestinians has been a key characteristic of its policy in the Middle East, Wednesday said it would host an envoy of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to discuss the crisis in Gaza.

Israeli air strikes and Palestinian rocket fire continued Tuesday night as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held talks in Jerusalem.

Keen to broker a truce between Hamas and Israel, Egypt is making some bold proclamations on the prospect of peace.

Whether the Israel-Gaza struggle ends in a cease-fire or a ground invasion, the world is finding there are no easy answers to end it.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hastily departed to the Middle East Tuesday from her Asia tour with President Barack Obama attending the East Asia Summit in Cambodia, to join efforts to broker truce between Israel and Palestinian militants.

Police arrested a man who allegedly stabbed a security guard at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, a police spokesman said.

Russia accused the U.S. Monday of blocking U.N. Security Council attempts to condemn the escalating conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militants in Gaza Strip adding that other council members were trying to “filibuster” the issue.

Israeli bombs and Hamas rockets continued to fly as Netanyahu's Cabinet considered a truce offer.

Believe it or not, there are new smells that can be discovered and one new smell has been recently been sniffed. Scientists have named the new smell “olfactory white.”

Now in week two of the conflict, negotiations in Cairo have broken down, as the death toll in Gaza climbs to 100.

News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch caused controversy on Twitter (yet again), when he complained about how the "Jewish-owned" press is covering the Israel-Gaza conflict.

The summer is past and cooler temperatures prevail throughout the Middle East. What a season for a good fight.

With fighting in the Gaza Strip entering its fifth day and Palestinian rockets landing deeper into Israel than ever before, travelers who had hoped to visit the Holy Land are starting to think twice.

Eleven civilians, including nine members of a family, were killed Sunday in the deadliest single strike by the Israeli air force since the cross-border firing started Wednesday between the Palestine Hamas and Israel in the Gaza strip, news agencies reported.

Crude oil prices advanced in Asia Monday on fears that growing tensions in the Middle East may threaten supplies.

Two advocates of freedom of the press have sounded alarms over Israel's deliberate targeting of two media centers in Gaza City.