No ceasefire agreement at Cairo summit with Israel, senior U.S. officials absent

World leaders gathered in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on Saturday for a conference to discuss ways to de-escalate the latest round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict amid growing fears of a wider Middle East conflict, but with Israel and senior U.S. officials absent, there were no agreement reached on a ceasefire, two weeks into a conflict that has killed thousands and visited a humanitarian catastrophe on the blockaded Gaza enclave of 2.3 million people.