ISRAELI STRIKE: The Israeli army blamed militants for the deaths of a Palestinian woman and her four young children, saying that they died in secondary blasts when the Hamas fighters’ ammunition detonated in an Israeli airstrike. Miyasar Abu Meatak and her children, ages 15 months to 6 years, were killed Monday morning as they were preparing to sit down for breakfast in a walled courtyard outside their home in Gaza.
IRAN INCENTIVES: World powers meeting in London agreed to try again to lure Iran to the nuclear bargaining table with a repackaged set of carrots to accompany the stick of UN sanctions. Diplomats said the offer contained no major new enticements but was meant to remind the clerical regime that talking is still an option.
YEMEN BOMB: A bomb rigged to a motorcycle blew up amid a crowd of worshipers leaving Friday prayers at a mosque in a rebel stronghold of northern Yemen, killing at least 18 people and wounding about four dozen, officials said. The attack occurred in Saada, a city in a Shiite Muslim area on the border with Saudi Arabia where a rebellion by members of the Zaydi sect erupted in 2004.
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