20/11/2012 11:30
International press at a glance
BBC
Talks aimed at achieving a truce between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza are due to resume in Egypt as the conflict enters its seventh day.
Sky News
Barack Obama has made history in becoming the first sitting US president to visit Burma.
The Guardian
Efforts to agree a ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinians are to intensify, with the UN chief, Ban Ki-moon, weighing in amid guarded optimism that a deal is possible because it suits both sides to end the fighting.
Reuters
China has confirmed that rising star Sun Zhengcai has been appointed Communist Party boss for the scandal-ridden southwestern city of Chongqing, taking the old job of disgraced Bo Xilai in the country's biggest metropolis.
The Telegraph
Khaled Meshaal, the exiled leader of the Palestinian group Hamas, has said at a press conference that Israel must halt what he described as its attack on the Gaza strip and lift the blockade of the Palestinian territory in exchange for a truce.
BBC
A man who locked a fake bomb around the neck of a teenage girl in an apparent extortion attempt has been jailed for 13-and-a-half years by an Australian court.
Reuters
International pressure for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip puts Egypt's new Islamist president in the spotlight on Tuesday after a sixth day of Palestinian rocket fire and Israeli air strikes that have killed more than 100 people.
The New Yourk Times
Heavy shelling and gunfire on Monday broke a tense standoff between Congolese rebels on the outskirts of the eastern Congolese city of Goma and government soldiers backed by United Nations troops who were hunkered down inside, as fears also rose of a direct military confrontation between the Democratic Republic of Congo and its neighbor Rwanda.