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Officials from the United States, Egypt and Qatar are due to meet in Doha to advance efforts to reach a ceasefire and hostage release deal between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement, sources said on Wednesday. CIA Director William Burns and White House Middle East Coordinator Brett McGurk travelled to the region again to promote the long-elusive deal, media reports said. They would hold talks in Qatar and Egypt and possibly also visit Israel, the Times of Israel said. Chief of the Egyptian intelligence service, Abbas Kamel, left on Wednesday for Doha for talks with Burns and Qa…

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