Oil falls to near $77 as 3-week rally stalls

SINGAPORE: Oil prices fell to near $77 a barrel Thursday in Asia as investor confidence wanes that a three-week rally will continue amid signs of weak U.

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Israel says it will ease Gaza land blockade

GAZA CITY: Israel agreed on Thursday to ease its land blockade on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, hoping to quell growing international criticism following a deadly sea raid.

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Israeli aircraft hit 2 Gaza targets; no injuries

GAZA CITY: The Israeli military says its aircraft fired missiles at a metal workshop and a tunnel in Hamas-ruled Gaza.

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Hamas executes 2 Israeli spies

GAZA CITY: The head of the military court in Hamas-ruled Gaza says two informers for Israel have been executed.

The executions marked the first time in a decade — and the first time ever under Hamas rule — that the death penalty was carried out in Gaza.

It signaled an escalation in Hamas” ways of maintaining control over Gaza. The Islamic militants seized the territory in 2007.

The head of the military court, Ahmed Atallah, announced the executions in a statement on the Web site of Gaza”s Interior Ministry. He identified the two men as convicted collaborators Mohammed Ismail and Nasser Abu Freih.

Atallah did not say how they were executed. An employee at Gaza”s main hospital says their bullet-riddled bodies were dropped off there by armed men early Thursday.

Israeli Jets Bomb Gaza CITY

GAZA CITY: Israeli jets early on Saturday bombed several targets across the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip in response to militant rocket fire, the army and Palestinian witnesses said.

A military spokesman said planes targeted a building used for manufacturing rockets on the outskirts of Gaza City as well as two smuggling tunnels linking the south of the impoverished enclave to Egypt. No casualties were reported in the strikes, witnesses said.

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Israeli Jets Bomb Gaza CITY was first posted on October 3, 2009 at 4:12 pm.