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WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is urging Hamas and Israel to respect an agreement to suspend hostilities in Gaza that have left nearly 2,000 Palestinians 67 Israelis dead. An 8 a.m. local time curfew is supposed to run for 72 hours. Egypt is being commended for its role in trying to end the violence. A State Department spokeswoman says the U.S. will work with other countries trying to help establish durable peace.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 50 African heads of state are taking part in an unprecedented White House summit. Participants will address issues such as investment, poverty, terrorism, corruption and deadly diseases. Leaders from Sierra Leone and Liberia canceled their plans to attend because of an Ebola outbreak in West African that has killed nearly 900 people.
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — An American missionary who contracted the usually deadly Ebola virus while serving in Liberia, is headed to Atlanta. She's aboard the same specialized jet that ferried an infected American doctor. Both have been given an experimental treatment and will remain in an isolation unit at Emory University.
DETROIT (AP) — A suburban Detroit man has testified that he was afraid when a woman showed up on his porch before dawn one morning last year, but that he refused to be a victim in his own home. Theodore Wafer told jurors at his murder trial Monday that he "wasn't going to cower" in his Dearborn Heights house when 19-year-old Renisha McBride showed up outside drunk. Prosecutors say he could have remained behind his locked door and called 911.
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — It's safe to drink the water again in Toledo, Ohio -- and in surrounding areas of Ohio and Michigan. That announcement came today from Toledo's mayor, two days after he warned some 400,000 people not to drink their tap water. The city lifted the advisory after dozens of tests over the weekend showed that the levels of a toxin contaminating Lake Erie had dropped to safe amounts.
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