Hostilities broke out in February, when Mr. Slim's entire stable of companies pulled their advertising from Televisa, arguing rates were too high.

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Roger Evans, a Catholic deacon from Chislehurst, England, was on a tour of the Holy Land with nine others from his parish when the hostilities in Gaza broke out in November.

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