CAIRO - ARAB League Secretary General Amr Mussa called on Wednesday for an immediate meeting of rival Palestinian factions, at the opening of an emergency session on how to deal with Israel's Gaza onslaught.

'We call on our Palestinian brothers to hold an immediate reconciliation meeting,' Mussa told foreign ministers from the 22-member pan-Arab bloc seeking a response to Israel's five-day bombardment of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

MADRID (Spain) - A CAR bomb exploded on Wednesday outside a regional television station in northern Spain following a warning call from the armed separatist group ETA, police said.

The blast caused significant damage but no injuries.

ASHDOD (Israel) - AS ARAB rockets reach ever deeper into Israel, they may be weakening what for years has been a cornerstone of Middle East peace efforts - an exchange of land for peace.

Israeli hard-liners have long warned that any territories Israel vacates will be used to attack it. They can now point to the Hamas missile that slammed into a bus stop in this port city on Monday, killing a 39-year-old woman. It was fired from the Gaza Strip, which Israel gave up in 2005 and is now ruled by Hamas militants who reject the very existence of the Jewish state.