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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Israeli artillery fire killed a Palestinian police officer and wounded 16 people in Gaza Sunday, as Israel escalated its retaliation for militant rocket strikes and put pressure on the new Hamas-led government that refuses to stop the attacks. The shelling, which set a plastics factory …

WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday the U.S. position on Hamas as a terrorist organization has not changed, despite the militant group’s stunning victory in Palestinian elections. “You cannot have one foot in politics and another in terror,” told an international conference in Davos, Switzerland via a …

WASHINGTON – Reaction to President Bush’s State of the Union address Tuesday: ——— “Tonight, we heard the president again call to make his tax policies permanent, despite his administration’s failure to manage our staggering national debt. Over the past five years, we’ve gone from huge surpluses to massive deficits. No …