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Tuesday, January 1, 2013 ��� Daily News 5B WORLD BRIEFING Israel eases restrictions on building materials to Gaza JERUSALEM (AP) ��� In a major concession to Gaza���s Hamas leaders Monday, Israel dropped its five-year ban on construction materials crossing into the territory and raised hopes there that rebuilding could begin following a damaging eight-day Israeli air campaign. The easing of restrictions is an outgrowth of the cease-fire that ended the airstrikes and months of daily rocket fire from Gaza at Israel. Contacts mediated by Egypt to follow up the truce produced the concession, and Israel promised to keep easing the lives of Gaza���s 1.6 million residents, as long as Israelis were no longer targeted by rocket fire by Gaza militants. How long the new arrangement holds could serve as a test case for the brittle truce between the bitter enemies. It also reflects a new power equation, with neighboring Egypt under the control of the Muslim Brotherhood, the parent group of Hamas. Israel, together with Egypt, imposed a land and naval embargo on Gaza after Hamas violently overtook the territory in 2007. Although Israel eased the restrictions in 2010, building materials such as cement, gravel and metal rods were still largely banned because Israel claimed militants could use them to make fortifications and weapons. Hundreds of smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border gave Gaza a conduit for all manner of goods as well as weapons, though the blockade remained intact. Clinton hospitalized with blood clot WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spent a second day at a New York hospital on Monday, under observation for a blood clot, stemming from a concussion she sustained while battling a stomach virus. The illness has kept her out of the public view since Dec. 7, and has started to raise a host of questions as her team keeps typically tightlipped about the details: Where is the clot located? How severe is her condition? How soon will she recover? And, as Democrats are privately if not publicly speculating, how might her illness affect a decision about running for presi- dent in 2016? Aides disclosed the blood clot Sunday, with her spokesman, Phillipe Reines, issuing a statement that said: ������Her doctors will continue to assess her condition, including other issues associated with her concussion.������ He had no immediate update Monday on her condition, raising the question of whether she will return to work before she steps down as secretary of state. After decades in politics, Clinton, 65, says she plans to spend the next year resting. She has long insisted she had no intention of mounting a second campaign for the White House four years from now. But the door is not entirely closed, and she would almost certainly emerge as the Democrat to beat if she decided to give in to calls by Democratic fans and run again. Her age ��� and thereby health ��� would likely be a factor under consideration, given that Clinton would be 69 when sworn in, if she were elected in 2016. That might become even more of an issue in the early jockeying for 2016 if what started as a bad stomach bug becomes a prolonged, public bout with more serious infirmity. Father claims body of Chavez has Newtown suffered new gunman HARTFORD, Conn. complications (AP) ��� The body of the man who massacred 26 people at a Connecticut elementary school was claimed by his father, a family spokesman said Monday, but the public may never know what happened with the remains. Like families of other mass killers, Adam Lanza���s father has to balance his own mourning with consideration for the victims, intense media scrutiny and the risk that a public gravesite could be dese- MOULE���S TEHAMA COUNTY GLASS SIDEVIEW MIRRORS Installed for all makes & models 515 Sycamore St., Red Bluff ��� 529-0260 Support our classrooms, keep kids reading. 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The massacre claimed more lives that any school shooting in U.S. history, except for the 2007 Virginia Tech rampage that left 33 people dead. Lanza���s father, Peter Lanza, of Stamford, Conn., claimed his son���s body Thursday, and there were ������private arrangements������ over the weekend, according to the family spokesman. He would not elaborate on what those arrangements were. C A R A C A S , Venezuela (AP) ��� President Hugo Chavez���s new complications after cancer surgery prompt- ed his closest allies to call for Venezuelans to pray for him on Monday, presenting an increasingly bleak outlook and prompting growing speculation about whether the ailing leader has much longer to live. Vice President Nicolas Maduro looked weary and spoke with a solemn expression as he announced in a televised address from Havana on Sunday that Chavez now confronts ������new complications������ due to a respiratory infection nearly three weeks after his operation. He described Chavez���s condition as delicate. The streets of Caracas were abuzz on Monday with talk of Chavez���s increasingly tough fight, while the news topped the front pages of the country���s newspapers. ������He���s history now,������ said Cesar Amaro, a street vendor selling newspapers and snacks at a kiosk in downtown Caracas. He motioned to a newspaper showing side-by-side photos of Maduro and National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello, and said politics will now turn to them. Amaro said he expects a new election soon to replace Chavez. ������For an illness like the one the president has, his days are numbered now,������ he said matter-offactly. Let���s get lean in 2013 We are your Resolution Solution! Start your new single, couple, or family membership We are passionate about weight loss and fitness! 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