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Syria confirmed the head of the Hamas students wing in Damascus has been killed in a car accident. A top Hamas official vehemently denied Israeli reports that the man, Isham Abu Libda, had run the office of Hamas leader Khaled Mashhal and that Abu Libda had been assassinated in a hit-and-run. Syria will cooperate with Turkey in its mediation to relaunch peace talks between the Damascus government and Israel.