The company's selection of chicken and hearty sides is so popular that Palestinians living on the Gaza Strip, where imported goods and travel remain restricted, are willing to pay a team of smugglers to run KFC orders through underground tunnels, usually waiting four or more hours to see their orders fulfilled.
Photographer Paul Hansen is fighting back against claims — from hackers calling it a composite, bloggers calling it a "fake," and still others questioning the meaning of news photography in a digital age — that his winning image for the "World Press Photo of the Year" contest is nothing but a computer-aided forgery. Even the World Press judges are doing some forensic second-guessing.
In the past week or so, police in Gaza City are cracking down on what they believe is a scourge of sacrilegious young men based on some pretty questionable criteria: fancy hair styles and fashionable pants.
On the same Barack Obama made his first visit to the West Bank as President and held talks with Mahmoud Abbas, militants in Gaza fired rockets into southern Israel, underlining the divisions still faced between not just Israelis and Palestinian, but within the two factions.
So this is pretty gross. Egypt's long struggled with ways to block a series of tunnels that bring some 30 percent of all goods, including guns, into Gaza so they got creative. They're using raw sewage.
The Israeli Defense Forces have been accused of violating international law when they targeted media offices during the recent military campaign in Gaza.
Gosh, it's totally inappropriate to laugh at the conflict in the Middle East, right? Well, it's totally Jon Stewart's fault.
New details stemming the agreement to play nice between Israel and Hamas will be negotiated over the next few weeks, and so the biggest winners are Gaza's fisherman. They can now fish twice as far off shore.
We're almost through the first twenty four hours of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Gaza, and besides a few stray rockets in the first couple hours, it seems to be holding. We could be in the clear, folks.
The conflict in Gaza and Southern Israel may finally be coming to a halt, but eight days of violence have left behind a trail of destruction and death all too familiar to the region — and a trail of incredible images like never before.
The Palestinians and Israelis have brokered a cease fire agreement that went into effect at 9 p.m. Cairo time, but bombs were launched until the last possible minutes and now we're waiting to see if this thing sticks.
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A bomb has exploded on a bus in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, injuring more than a dozen, but also threatening to permanently derail any hopes of a cease fire in Gaza.
Israel is still denying any agreement being on the table "at this point," and the deadline came and went.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is heading to Israel and Egypt today to join the diplomatic effort to bring a cease fire to the conflict in Gaza.
As the death toll continues to climb, Egyptian leaders are getting creative as they tackle the seemingly impossible task of bartering a truce between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
For the second day in a row, an Israeli missile has hit the media center in Gaza, this time claiming the life of a senior member of Islamic Jihad.
Reporter Sharon Udasin is not a military or political correspondent, but she's learning the hard way how difficult it can be to cover anything else—pets, specifically, and now, more than ever—when your world is consumed by the throes of war.
Matt Katz on Booker vs. Christie, Robert Kagan on Susan Rice, Daniel Akst on paper, Daniel Altman on inequality, and Peter Beinart on Israel.
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Scary and heartbreaking images continue to emerge from the growing war in Gaza and southern Israel, even as world leaders desperately hope for a truce and Israel prepares for a larger invasion.
The fighting between Israel and Hamas continued Sunday night with rocket attacks on both sides, while in the background the efforts to work out a ceasefire have begun to ramp up.
There are signs, however small, that an end to the most recent conflict between Israel and Gaza is coming to a close.
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The prime minister of Egypt visited Gaza today in an attempt to broker a cease fire, but neither side let up on its aggressive rocket-based war.
Perhaps the most surprising thing about Israel's surprise attack on Hamas this week is that many people learned about it by reading about it on the Israeli Defense Forces own surreal Twitter feed.
This is not a photo of a sunrise. It's the Gaza Strip being hit by an Israeli missile as their campaign to wipe out militants in Gaza has continued into a second day.
After days of increasingly heavy artillery shelling from Gaza—and even heavier responses from the other side—Israel's military has killed a senior Hamas official in a targeted strike.
Israel's military fired weapons into Syria for the second straight day in response to errant cross-border firing that threatens to draw the Israeli's into Syria's civil war.
After a wild week of rocket attacks and reprisals, an Egypt-brokered ceasefire appears to be holding between Israel and Hamas, according to a handful of reports.
A mysterious explosion leveled an ammunition factory in Sudan last night, but the Sudanese government is now claiming the building was bombed by Israeli warplanes.
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A cease-fire along the Israeli border with Gaza appears to be holding, mostly, and now that things have calmed down an Israeli official put the fighting into perspective for the rest of us: The whole thing was basically practice for a war with Iran.
15 Palestinian fighters were killed by Israeli airstrikes today in the bloodiest day in that region in over a year. The action has drawn widespread criticism.
Israel stopped a flotilla of ships headed past its Gaza blockade today in a confrontation that went much more smoothly than the one that resulted in the death of eight Turkish citizens and one American in May 2010.
Turkey has downgraded its diplomatic ties with Israel over a Gaza spat
The findings may further damage Israeli-Turkish relations
The strike was in retaliation for a series of deadly attacks near Eilat
The move may spark--and signal--increased tensions between Israel and Egypt
The group that kidnapped Vittorio Arrigoni wanted Hamas to release their leader
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