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The rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah say they have agreed to the terms of a new ceasefire to end days of intense fighting in Gaza. A senior Fatah official said that it'd agreed in principle to a list of nine conditions from Hamas including that Hamas should appoint the Palestinian Interior Minister who would be responsible for all Palestinian security forces. Our Middle East correspondent K A reports.
Azzam al-Ahmed, a senior Fatah official as well as a Deputy Palestinian Prime Minister, said a ceasefire deal had been reached by Fatah and Hamas in the late afternoon. He said in principle, Fatah had accepted a list of conditions presented by Hamas, although he said more dialogue between the two sides was needed. Since then, Mr. al-Ahmed said Hamas had not responded. Hamas's military wing says it has received no orders from the movement's politicians to put down their guns. So the fight continues and it is now on for Gaza City, the political heart of the territory.
And we've now heard that the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh have issued a joint statement in which they said they agreed on the need to end the fighting. The statement called on all sides to halt the fighting and return to the language of dialogue.

An anti-Syrian member of the Lebanese Parliament Walid Eido has been killed in a bomb blast in the capital Beirut along with one of his sons and at least eight other people. Mr. Eido's death leaves the anti-Syrian coalition in Parliament with the majority of only three members. Kim Ghattas reports from Beirut.
The bomb brought deaths and chaos to a side street between two popular beach resorts, the Long Beach and the Sporting Club. Walid Eido and his son had just finished having a late lunch there. The explosives were packed in sports car parked by the side of the road detonated from a distance as Mr. Eido drove past. Anti-Syrian legislators recently expressed fears there might be renewed assassination attempts. Mr. Eido is the third legislator to be killed in the last two years.

The Roman Catholic Church has said that Catholics should stop donating money to the human rights organization Amnesty International because of its support for some women to be allowed abortions. The head of the Vatican council for justice and peace Cardinal Renato Martino criticized Amnesty's recent change of policy, as that he thanked to God, there was no internationally recognized right to abortion. Amnesty responded by saying it was not promoting abortion as a universal right but that women had a right to choose.

The United States' House of Representatives has approved legislation tightened the rules on gun ownership in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre. The bill would strengthen a federal database used to stop people who are banned from owning weapons from buying them. If the bill is approved by the Senate, it would be the most significant US gun control law in more than a decade.

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The former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has marked the 25th anniversary of the end of the Falklands War by describing the outcome as a great victory in a noble course. Baroness Thatcher said aggression was reversed when British forces defeated Argentine troops who'd invaded the islands. Peter Grant describes the atmosphere there.
It's very much a mood of commemoration, celebration of the fact that Britain sent troops 8,000 miles to free them, but certainly commemoration and solemn commemoration of the losses incurred. 255 British servicemen died, more than 700 wounded. 650 Argentinean servicemen died in the conflict as well. So, a commemoration of a losses reflection on what happened but also celebrations of fact that the islands were freed from Argentinean rule and celebrations of fact that they’ve had 25 years of liberation.

Tens of thousands of South African Trades Unions have taken part in marches in several cities in support of a strike over pay by public sector workers. The nationwide strike call is reported to have been partially observed, but the head of the Congress of South African Trades Unions, Willie Madisha said he was pleased with the way the protest had gone.
"We are quite happy. This is a very successful action. Not only here in the Pretoria but everywhere in the country. It's an indication and that indeed people are angry, workers are not happy that they've negotiated that for more than eight months without achieving anything at all. So I own the hope that after this go off power by the workers, government will be able to move. "

Plans for a rocket plane to carry tourists into space have been unveiled in Paris. Each flight will give four passengers the opportunity to float in zero gravity for three minutes. The plane differs from other commercial spacecraft in that it will be able to take off from existing airports.

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