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Hamas, Israel Negotiating Cease-Fire [VIDEO]

Apr 11th 2011 – 1:03PM
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China Calls for Immediate Cease-Fire in Libya

Mar 22nd 2011 – 5:57AM

BEIJING -- China called Tuesday for an immediate cease-fire in Libya where the U.S. and European nations have launched punishing airstrikes to enforce a U.N. no-fly zone. All parties must "immediately cease fire and resolve issues through peaceful means," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said at a regularly scheduled...

Is Libya Cease-Fire Real or More Gadhafi 'Mischief Making'?

By Dana KennedyMar 18th 2011 – 1:09PM
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RTP Portugal TV / AP

Military experts and Libyan rebels say that Libya's abrupt promise of a cease-fire today, just hours after the U.N. voted for a no-fly zone, is canny brinksmanship by Col. Moammar Gadhafi designed to buy time in his escalating cat-and-mouse game with the West. Rebel commander Khalifa Heftir told reporters in Benghazi...

Basque Separatist Group ETA Declares Cease-Fire

By Lauren FrayerJan 10th 2011 – 9:57AM

MADRID -- It's a hauntingly familiar video here in Spain: Three masked men speaking into the camera with a banner of the Basque separatist group ETA hanging behind them. More than 850 people have died in the group's bombings, shootings and kidnappings over the past half-century, and such videos are splashed across the...

Spain Dismisses Terrorist Group's Cease-Fire Pledge

By Theunis BatesSep 6th 2010 – 12:11PM
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(Sept. 6) -- Spain's government today ruled out negotiations with the armed Basque separatist group ETA, saying the terrorist organization only announced a cease-fire Sunday as it is too weak to carry out further attacks. "ETA is stopping because it can't continue," Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, Spain's interior minister,...

cease fire News From the Web

  • 05/12/12 CFMG discusses on Cease Fire Ground Rules Source: New Kerala Dot Com The Cease Fire Monitoring Group (CFMG) held a meeting with the NSCN-IM to discuss the cease fire ground rules and the outfit's argument over the right to conduct armed patrols.
  • 03/29/12 Cease fire Source: The Indian Express With Union Defence Minister A.K. Antony declaring that all the three service chiefs enjoy the confidence of the government, it appears that he is trying to lower the temperature in the hothouse of allegation and counter-allegation that has marked the stand-off between Army Chief General V.K. Singh and the government.
  • 02/03/12 Cease fire Source: The Indian Express With the Supreme Court criticising the defence ministrys handling of confusion over the army chiefs date of birth, the Central government must consider ways in which the issue can be pulled back from the brink not just to cut its political losses in this instance, but to take the confrontational edge off the interface between the defence ministry and army leadership.
  • 09/20/11 Cease Fire Source: Ukiah Daily Journal - Ukiah CA A dream you have during the wee hours of the morning may reflect career concerns on your mind.
  • 08/22/11 Cease Fire. Source: Recidivism Hates so much about the things that you choose to be.

Background on cease fire

A ceasefire (or truce) is a temporary stoppage of a war in which each side agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions.

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