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Blinken signals no immediate US press for Mideast cease-fire

by Ellen KnickmeyerMatthew Lee
| May 17, 2021 6:27 AM

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken signaled Monday the U.S. still was not joining calls for an immediate cease-fire between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers as fighting entered its second week, with more than 200 people dead, most of them Palestinians in Gaza.

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