International talks on the Middle East set for Friday were lent a fresh sense of urgency after Israeli warplanes replied with airstrikes to a fatal rocket attack launched from the Gaza Strip. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office meanwhile said late Thursday that he had spoken by phone to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Palestinian security officials and eyewitnesses ...

The latest round of Middle East diplomacy was marred on Thursday as a rocket fired from Gaza killed a civilian in Israel while the EU foreign policy chief was visiting the Palestinian enclave. A Thai agricultural worker was killed when the rocket slammed into a farm near the Gaza border. A second rocket slammed into open ground after dark, causing ...

A flurry of Middle East diplomacy was marred on Thursday as a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip killed a civilian in Israel as the EU foreign policy chief was visiting the Palestinian enclave. A Thai agricultural worker was killed when the rocket slammed into a kibbutz just a few kilometres (couple of miles) from the Gaza border. UN Secretary ...

A flurry of Middle East diplomacy was marred on Thursday as a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip killed a civilian in Israel as the EU foreign policy chief was visiting the Palestinian enclave. A Thai agricultural worker was killed when the rocket slammed into a kibbutz just a few kilometres (couple of miles) from the Gaza border. UN Secretary ...