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Yahoo! News: World News

Israeli ground troops invade Gaza to halt rockets (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2009 01:07 AM CST

Israeli soldiers on the Israeli-Gaza border waiting to deploy into the Gaza Strip. The ground offensive that Israel launched in the Gaza Strip late on Saturday will meet stiff resistance and guerilla tactics that will exact a heavy toll on both sides, experts said.(AFP/Jack Guez)AP - Thousands of Israeli troops backed by columns of tanks and helicopter gunships launched a ground offensive in Gaza on Saturday night, with officials saying they expected a lengthy fight in the densely populated territory after eight days of punishing airstrikes failed to halt militant rocket attacks on Israel.

Diplomats say US blocks UN statement on Gaza (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2009 01:07 AM CST

Alejandro Wolff, US Ambassador to UN waits to speak to reporters at UN Headquarters on the situation in Gaza after emergency consultations of the Security Council which ended without any agreement Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009. Wolff said the United States saw no prospect of Hamas abiding by last week's council call for an immediate end to the violence. Therefore, he said, a new statement at this time 'would not be adhered to and would have no underpinning for success, would not do credit to the council.' (AP Photo/David Karp)AP - The United States late Saturday blocked approval of a U.N. Security Council statement calling for an immediate cease-fire between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers, diplomats said.

Series of powerful quakes kills 4 in Indonesia (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2009 02:54 AM CST

Residents inspect a collapsed hotel after an earthquake struck in Manokwari, Papua province, Indonesia, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2009. A series of powerful earthquakes at dawn killed at least three people and injured dozens more in remote eastern Indonesia on Sunday, cutting power lines and badly damaging buildings. (AP Photo/Budi Setiawan)AP - A series of powerful earthquakes at dawn Sunday killed at least four people and injured dozens more in remote eastern Indonesia, cutting power lines and destroying buildings.

Israeli Arabs on Gaza firing line lack shelter (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2009 02:38 AM CST

An Israeli reacts as he examines the damage in his house after a rocket fired by Palestinians militants from Gaza hit in Sderot, southern Israel, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2009. Israel pummeled Palestinian militants from the air, sea and ground early Sunday after taking the risky decision to embark on a land invasion in the crowded, Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)AP - A rocket exploded a few hundred yards from Mateb Abu Nasr's house, driving home the message that tens of thousands of Israeli Arabs living within range of militant attacks from Gaza are just as vulnerable as their Jewish neighbors.

Bahamas using 2 experts for Travolta son autopsy (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2009 01:08 AM CST

John Travolta's attorneys Michael Ossi, left, and Michael McDermott talk to reporters at West End, in Freeport, Grand Bahama, Bahamas, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009. John Travolta's 16-year-old son, Jett, was found collapsed in a bathroom on Friday after having a seizure and hitting his head on the bathtub at the actor's vacation home in Grand Bahama, according to a police officer who declined to be named. He was taken by ambulance to a Freeport hospital, where he was pronounced dead. (AP Photos/Alan Diaz)AP - The Bahamas will use two pathologists to ensure a careful autopsy on John Travolta's son, who died at the actor's vacation home in Grand Bahama, the territory's health minister said Saturday.

Russia-Ukraine gas row disrupts supplies to EU (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jan 2009 02:36 AM CST

Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom's headquarters is seen in Moscow, December 3, 2009. European Union president the Czech Republic said on Saturday it did not intend to become a participant or mediator in gas contract disputes between Russia and Ukraine, but urged both sides to reach an agreement soon. (Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)Reuters - Russia and Ukraine looked no closer to compromise on Sunday over a gas row that has disrupted supplies to at least four European Union countries as they face freezing winter temperatures.

Marines in combat still seek a better flak vest (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2009 01:11 AM CST

U.S. Marine Capt. Mike Hoffman, right, wearing body armor, converses with an Afghan national, who for security reasons could not be identified, posing as a village elder during a training exercise Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008, at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, Calif. Acting on widespread complaints from its troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Marine Corps has ordered major changes to its body armor to improve comfort, mobility and safety, The Associated Press has learned. (AP Photo/Ric Francis)AP - Acting on widespread complaints from its troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Marine Corps has ordered major modifications to its body armor to improve comfort, mobility and safety, The Associated Press has learned.

Mexican warlock predicts US troops on border (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2009 02:42 PM CST

Professor Antonio Vazquez Alba, also known as Mexico's Grand Warlock, speaks while making predictions about 2009 in Mexico City, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009. Professor Vazquez Alba has been giving his yearly predictions since 1980, and last year incorrectly predicted that Sen. Hillary Clinton would win the U.S. presidential elections. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)AP - Mexico's self-proclaimed "Grand Warlock" says the United States will pull troops out of Iraq in 2009 and send them to the border with Mexico in an attempt to expand its territory.

Dozens missing after boat capsizes in east Nepal (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2009 11:17 PM CST

AP - Dozens of people were missing Sunday after an overcrowded boat carrying mostly women and children capsized in a river in eastern Nepal.

Sri Lanka says army moving on rebel HQ (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2009 02:57 AM CST

Sri Lankans wave the national flag in Colombo to celebrate the military capturing the northern Tamil Tiger town of Kilinochchi. Sri Lankan troops have advanced on the military headquarters of the Tamil Tigers and engaged the rebels in fresh gunbattles, having captured their de facto political capital.(AFP/File/Ishara S. Kodikara)AFP - The Sri Lankan army said it was moving in on the jungle stronghold of the Tamil Tiger rebels, in a final assault aimed at ending the longest-running ethnic war in Asia.

Base jumper survives 60-metre fall with failed parachute (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2009 12:47 AM CST

File photo shows a base jumper leaping from a tower in Taiwan. A base jumper has survived a 60-metre (200-foot) plunge from an Australian bridge despite his parachute failing during the stunt, officials have said.(AFP/EURO-NEWSROOM.COM/File/Joerg Mitter)AFP - A base jumper survived a 60-metre (200-foot) plunge from an Australian bridge Sunday despite his parachute failing during the stunt, officials said.

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