Crunch time for Gaza truce talks as death toll passes 800

Airliner comes down in north Africa with 116 on board, including 51 French, after departing Burkina Faso for Algiers

An Air Algérie plane prepares to land in Algiers. Flight AH5017 vanished from radar screens around 50 minutes after taking off from Burkina Faso for Algiers. Photograph: Farouk Batiche/AFP/Getty Images

Kim Willsher in Paris, Monica Mark and agencies
Friday 25 July 2014

(Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pressed regional leaders to nail down a Gaza ceasefire on Friday as the civilian death toll soared, and further violence loomed between Israelis and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.
Crunch Time for Gaza Truce Talks as Death Toll Passes 800 by Maria Anderson