Truce efforts strained amid Tel Aviv bomb blast

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The bus exploded about noon on one of the coastal city’s busiest arteries, near the Tel Aviv museum and across from an entrance to Israel’s national defense headquarters.

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Smoke rose over Gaza City Tuesday night after an apparent Israeli air strike on the deadliest day of the fighting.

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Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby (third left) met with Hamas’s Atallah Abu Sibah (right) in Gaza.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in Jerusalem.

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An Israeli worker was lifted by a crane to survey a building damaged by rocket fire in Rishon LeZion.

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A rocket was launched from Gaza toward Israel Tuesday night.

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Smoke rose from what witnesses said was an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, in southern Gaza.

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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak in Jerusalem.

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Rescue workers were at the scene of a building damaged by a rocket near Tel Aviv.

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, spoke with Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil in Cairo.

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A Palestinian ran from tear gas fired by Israeli forces in Bethlehem in the West Bank.