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• Gaza father suspected of killing daughter for owning cell phone
• Israel to allow cement, metal pipes into Gaza
• Israel targets U.K. funding of controversial leftist group
• Israel delegation to UN wins praise from unexpected source
• Report: Madoff can't believe fraud was not uncovered sooner

Gaza father suspected of killing daughter for owning cell phone Posted: 29 Jul 2009 11:46 AM PDT GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Human rights groups say a Gaza man is being held on suspicion he bludgeoned his daughter to death with an iron chain because he discovered she owned a cell phone. ...

Israel to allow cement, metal pipes into Gaza Posted: 29 Jul 2009 11:26 AM PDT For the first time since the end of Operation Cast Lead, Israel plans to transfer several hundred tons of cement and other construction materials, including metal pipes, into the Gaza Strip to facilitate reconstruction. ...

Israel targets U.K. funding of controversial leftist group Posted: 29 Jul 2009 05:54 AM PDT Israel continues to ratchet up diplomatic pressure against European Union funding of a controversial left-wing group. ...

Israel delegation to UN wins praise from unexpected source Posted: 29 Jul 2009 05:17 AM PDT The United Nations headquarters in New York is usually not a place in which Israel receives compliments, yet the Israeli delegation there recently garnered rave reviews for the way it responded to the explosion of a Hezbollah weapons cache in southern Lebanon. ...

Report: Madoff can't believe fraud was not uncovered sooner Posted: 29 Jul 2009 02:25 AM PDT Bernard Madoff, the financier convicted for Wall Street's biggest investment fraud, was surprised his $65 billion Ponzi scheme was not uncovered sooner, he said in his first interview since entering prison. ...

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