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The deal they struck didn’t just broker a truce.

He was leading a mission to destroy Hamas tunnels when he was ambushed, killed and his body seized just hours into a short-lived humanitarian truce.

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L.A.’s warring gangs had just struck a truce following a resurgence in the type of street violence that Basheer called a “cancer,” and as both drugs and drug-war-era law enforcement practices ravaged the Black community.

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China said Monday it would suspend sanctions against US subsidiaries of Hanwha Ocean, one of South Korea's largest shipbuilders, as a fragile trade truce between Washington and Beijing continued to take shape.

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The truce, which came into effect on October 10, saw 20 living hostages returned by Hamas to Israel in exchange for approximately 2,000 Palestinian prisoners.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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