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NEWS ABOUT: truce

truce stories: 16 news summaries

 North: Korean War Is Back On 

North declares end to peace deal, restarts its nuclear plant

May 27, 09 6:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - North Korea warned today that it no longer considers itself bound by the 1953 truce that brought the Korean War to an effective—but not official—end. The country said South Korea's announcement yesterday that it is joining a US-led initiative to stop ships suspected of carrying weapons of mass... More »

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nuclear proliferation • North Korea • South Korea • Pyongyang • truce • Korean War • Proliferation Security Initiative

 Hamas Agrees to Gaza Truce 


Feb 12, 09 9:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Hamas says its negotiators have a reached a deal with Israel for a long-term Gaza truce, Reuters reports. A senior leader said the truce ensures the opening of all commercial crossings and will be announced over the weekend. The Egyptian-brokered pact would replace a tentative truce put in place last... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Egypt • Israel and Palestinians • truce • Arab Israeli conflict

 Palestinians Agree to Ceasefire 

Israel agrees to withdraw from Gaza if truce holds

Jan 18, 09 8:03 AM CST
(Newser) - Hamas and other Gaza militants have agreed to an immediate ceasefire, and will allow Israel a week to pull troops out of the area, a Hamas official said today in Egypt. Israel said it would withdraw if the truce was upheld. It had declared a unilateral ceasefire beginning early this... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Egypt • truce • Palestinians • militant • ceasefire • Arab Israeli conflict

Israel Pummels Gaza
Before Ceasefire Vote

2 children killed in UN school shelter: Palestinians

Jan 17, 09 8:31 AM CST
(Newser) - Israel launched 50 air strikes on Gaza last night ahead of a Cabinet vote on a unilateral ceasefire, the BBC reports. A tank shell hit a UN school, killing at least two children among hundreds of people who had taken refuge there, Palestinians say; Israel says it’s looking into... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Egypt • school • truce • ceasefire • Arab Israeli conflict

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 Hamas Divided Over 
 Continued Fighting 

Locals want to stop violence; exiled leaders say keep it up

Jan 16, 09 12:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Hamas is split over its next steps in the continuing bloodshed in Gaza. Local leaders want an end to the violence, while exiled bosses in Syria want to keep battling until all their conditions are met, the Economist reports. Outside leaders are putting pressure on Hamas, particularly its Syrian arm,... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Egypt • truce • Arab Israeli conflict

 Israel Rejects Ceasefire 

Call it 'unrealistic'

Dec 31, 08 6:48 AM CST
(Newser) - Israel today rejected a 48-hour humanitarian truce designed to allow foreign aid into Gaza, CNN reports. Israeli officials said the deal, proposed by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, didn’t come with any assurances that Hamas would honor it. “The residents of the south of Israel must have a... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • truce • Bernard Kouchner • ceasefire

China Dispatches Furry Ambassadors to Taiwan

Bears names—Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan—spell "reunification"

Dec 22, 08 1:20 PM CST
(Newser) - China is sending a pair of pandas to Taiwan today, a peace offering that’s been in the making for 4 years, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. The nations, not known for being warm or cuddly toward each other, appear to be making amends. Last week, after a 60-year stalemate,... More »

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China • Taiwan • truce • panda • panda diplomacy

Israel Launches Raid
on Gaza

Six die in air strikes and incursion

Nov 5, 08 2:16 AM CST
(Newser) - Israeli tanks have attacked Hamas positions in Gaza in the first armed incursion into the region since a truce negotiated in June. At least six Hamas militants have been killed, reports the BBC. Fighting broke out after Israeli troops uncovered a tunnel along the Gaza border which they claim was... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Israel and Palestinians • truce • incursion

Georgia Signs Ceasefire; Negotiators Head to Moscow

Kouchner brokers accord as new threats arise in Abkhazia

Aug 11, 08 6:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili has signed a ceasefire agreement drafted by the European Union, which EU mediators will present to Moscow later today. Bernard Kouchner, the French foreign minister, visited Tbilisi this morning and said that the Georgian leader was "determined to make peace." Kouchner will now try... More »

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Russia • Georgia • truce • Tbilisi • Bernard Kouchner • ceasefire • Dmitry Medvedev • Abkhazia • South Ossetia

South Africa Offers Zimbabwe Truce Proposal

Opposition welcomes plan ceding real power to Tsvangirai as PM

Jul 7, 08 10:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - South African president Thabo Mbeki has proposed a compromise in Zimbabwe’s political crisis: Let Robert Mugabe remain president in name, but hand power to opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai as temporary prime minister, the Guardian reports. Members of opposition party Movement for Democratic Change were said to be largely satisfied... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Morgan Tsvangirai • South Africa • truce • Thabo Mbeki • power sharing deal • peace deal • Zimbabwe elections

Rockets Hit Israel, Olmert Ends Ceasefire

Islamic Jihad militants call Gaza Strip attack revenge for raid

Jun 24, 08 9:48 AM CDT
(AP) - Police say three Palestinian rockets have hit southern Israel and Ehud Olmert's office says the ceasefire that took effect last week has been broken. Islamic Jihad militants in the Gaza Strip say they carried out the attack to avenge an Israeli military raid that killed one of their fighters in... More »

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Israel • Middle East • Gaza • Palestine • West Bank • truce • rockets

 Israel, Hamas Agree to
 Begin Ceasefire Thursday 

But Jerusalem waiting to see if it's 'serious'

Jun 17, 08 9:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Israel has reached a tentative truce with Hamas, brokered by Egypt, the BBC and AP report. Starting Thursday, the two sides will begin a “mutual and simultaneous calm,” in which militants will theoretically stop their daily cross-border rocket bombardments, and Israel will in turn cease its military raids.... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Gilad Shalit • Israel and Palestinians • truce • ceasefire • Mideast peace talks

 Hamas Pitches Deal
 for Gaza 'Calm'  

Offer to Israel, through Egypt, also provides for eventual truce in West Bank

Apr 24, 08 2:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Meeting with Egyptian authorities, Hamas leaders today proposed a truce with Israel in the Gaza Strip and, eventually, the West Bank, Reuters reports. A Palestinian source said the group agreed to "a calm” in Gaza and, after a “specified period,” in the West Bank. The deal, supported... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • West Bank • truce • Arab Israeli conflict • peace deal

Olmert Nixes Hamas Truce: 'This War Will Continue'

Says Palestinian militants must first cease attacks, recognize Israel

Dec 23, 07 12:19 PM CST
(Newser) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert today refused to consider a truce with Hamas until the militant Palestinian group recognizes Israel and halts attacks in Gaza, reports the BBC. Olmert told government officials that Israel is gaining ground in stopping rocket attacks, of which 1,000 have hit Israel since Hamas... More »

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Israel • Middle East • Ehud Olmert • Palestine • Hamas • European Union • Israel and Palestinians • truce • peace process • US • The Quartet • Arab Israeli conflict

Iraqi Shiite Leaders
Call Truce

Sides that clashed
in Karbala seek to
curb bloodshed

Oct 6, 07 3:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Two Shiite leaders made peace in Iraq today in hope of ending their bitter feud and curbing bloodshed, Reuters reports. Moqtada Al-Sadr and Abdul Aziz Al-Hakim, leaders of parliament's main Shiite blocs, agreed to form committees and solve problems together around the country. Fighting between the factions has intensified this... More »

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Iraq • Shiite • Mahdi Army • truce • Abdul Aziz Al Hakim • Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council • radical cleric • Muqtada al-Sadr

Rebels Attack Sri Lankan
Naval Base

Casualty reports differ; open civil war looms as truce continues to fray

May 24, 07 10:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tamil Tiger rebels overran a naval base in northern Sri Lanka today, killing an undetermined number of sailors and aggravating concerns that civil war threatens the island nation. The Tigers said the fighting lasted 20 minutes and they "found 35 bodies"; the Sri Lankan military reported fewer than 10... More »

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Sri Lanka • Tamil Tigers • violence • bombing • truce

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