Egyptian man, stranded in Gaza, swims home
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ISMAILIA, Egypt  - A young Egyptian man swam along the Mediterranean coast from the Gaza Strip to Egypt overnight after almost two years of living without papers in the Palestinian enclave, police sources said on Sunday.
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Egypt sends police to its border with Gaza to stop Palestinians stranded in Sinai from crossing over.
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CLAMART, France (CBS) The body of long-time Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat began its journey home Thursday, as his people mourned his death at the age of 75.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Imad Hassan, a Palestinian electronics engineer and lecturer, never thought he would want to leave his homeland.
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Thousands of Palestinians streamed  home through the breaches in Gaza's border with Egypt on Sunday  after Egyptian authorities choked off supplies to the area and  moved to restore control.
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Hamas Islamists called on Egypt on  Saturday to open its shuttered border crossing with the Gaza  Strip to let more than 2,000 Palestinians return to their Gaza  homes from the annual haj pilgrimage in Mecca.
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JERUSALEM -- A top Palestinian security leader who is a relative of Yasser Arafat escaped injury yesterday when a booby-trapped car exploded near his convoy in Gaza City, security officials said.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip -- Egyptian troops closed the last breach in Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip Sunday, ending 12 days of free movement for Palestinian residents of the blockaded territory, witnesses and Hamas security officials said.
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A top Palestinian official says Yasser Arafat is breathing on his own and &quot;his brain is not damaged.&quot;. Conflicting reports have flown for the past day, after the Palestinian leader took
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By Jose Borjon, The Brownsville Herald, Texas  May 31--A 27-year-old man drowned Tuesday afternoon while swimming on a South Padre Island beach.
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Australian Mamdouh Habib arrives home after nearly three years at a US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay.
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CAIRO, Jan. 2 -- Egypt opened its main crossing into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday to allow more than 2,000 Palestinian pilgrims -- including at least one official of the armed Hamas movement -- to return to their homes there, outraging Israel in a growing dispute over border security.
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A senior Hamas leader survived an Israeli assassination attempt in the Gaza Strip Wednesday but at least five other Palestinians were killed in the explosion that tore through his home.
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Israeli soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit -- captured by Hamas more than a year ago -- is alive and well, the exiled leader of Hamas told CNN Friday.
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A top Palestinian security leader who is a relative of Yasser Arafat escaped unharmed when a car bomb exploded near his convoy in Gaza City, the latest sign of growing chaos as Israelâs planned Gaza pullout nears.
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Hundreds of Palestinian pilgrims stranded in Egypt after returning from Mecca cross back into the Gaza Strip.
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A 7-year-old Arizona boy swam from Alcatraz Island to the city in 47 minutes Monday, where his father lifted him from the chilly waters.