2009年1月7日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World News

Israel's top leaders mulling cease-fire offer (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2009 03:27 AM CST

A Palestinian youth, protesting Israel's offensive in Gaza, holds up stones behind tyres set ablaze during scuffles with Israeli troops in the West Bank town of Yatta near Hebron January 5, 2009. (Nayef Hashlamoun/Reuters)AP - Israel's top leaders are meeting to discuss whether to accept a cease-fire plan or expand their military offensive in Gaza.

Ukraine: Russia stops sending gas to Europe (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2009 01:42 AM CST

A woman passes by a gas pipe of the gas-compressor station in the small Ukrainian city of Boyarka, near Kiev on January 4. Ukraine said Tuesday that Russia had drastically cut gas supplies to Europe and warned of AP - Ukrainian officials said Wednesday that Russia had cut off all gas supplies through pipelines crossing Ukrainian territory, the latest move in a devastating pricing dispute between the two neighbors that has already left a number of countries without gas.

Transcript: Mumbai gunmen were commanded by phone (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2009 03:16 AM CST

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, right, and Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee, front left, attend a conference of Chief Ministers on internal security in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009. (AP Photo)AP - "We have three foreigners, including women," the gunman said into the phone. The response was brutally simple: "Kill them." Gunshots then rang out inside the Mumbai hotel, followed by cheering that could be heard over the phone.

Israel ground war drives up civilian casualties (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2009 03:23 AM CST

An Israeli soldier stands at his Armored Personal Carrier, near Israel's border with Gaza, southern Israel, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009. Israeli tanks, infantry and aircraft hammered dozens of Hamas targets overnight Wednesday as Israel's leaders discussed whether to expand the 12-day operation meant to stop rocket fire into Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)AP - The rising civilian death toll in Israel's campaign in Gaza highlights the pitfalls of Israel's powerful army using lethal force against often invisible Hamas guerrillas taking cover among civilians.

Egypt and France propose plan to end Gaza conflict (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2009 11:24 PM CST

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas leaves a Security Council meeting about the situation in Gaza at United Nations Headquarters in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - A cease-fire initiative Tuesday to halt the increasingly bloody Israeli offensive in Hamas-rule Gaza won support from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called on rival sides to follow up on the proposal.

Russian gas deliveries to Europe halted as bitter weather bites (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2009 03:50 AM CST

A local worker controls a gas valve and the gas pressure at the gas-main center of FGSZ Natural Gas in Vecses. All deliveries of Russian gas through Ukraine have been halted, officials from both sides said, amid growing prospects European consumers could suffer from the crisis amid freezing weather.(AFP/Attila Kisbenedek)AFP - All deliveries of Russian gas through Ukraine were halted on Wednesday, officials from both sides said, amid growing prospects European consumers could suffer from the crisis amid freezing weather.

Iraq sends 30,000 troops to guard Karbala pilgrims (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2009 03:39 AM CST

Iranian men covered in mud stand near a fire to dry themselves during the Ashura religious festival in Khorramabad, 491 km (307 miles) southwest of Tehran, January 7, 2009. Muslims all over the world mourn the slaying of Imam Hussein, a grandson of Prophet Mohammed, during the first ten days of the Islamic month of Moharram. Imam Hussein was killed by his political rivals along with 72 companions in Iraq some 1,300 years ago. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl (IRAN)AP - An Iraqi official says 30,000 policemen and soldiers have been deployed to the holy city of Karbala to protect two million Shiite pilgrims there.

Gunmen attack TV station in northern Mexico (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2009 11:08 PM CST

AP - Masked gunmen opened fire and tossed a grenade at a Mexican television station as it aired its nightly newscast Tuesday, leaving behind a message warning the station about its coverage of drug gangs.

Nine crew of French ship freed off Nigeria (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2009 03:30 AM CST

A Nigerian militant patrols the Niger Delta in September 2008. Nine crew members taken hostage with their vessel at the weekend off the coast of Nigeria have been released.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AFP - The nine crew members taken hostage with their vessel at the weekend off the coast of Nigeria have been released, the ship's owner Bourbon said Wednesday.

US envoy in Beijing for 30th anniversary of ties (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2009 03:49 AM CST

AP - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte marked 30 years of U.S. diplomatic relations with China on Wednesday by attending a table tennis match that commemorated the start of "pingpong diplomacy."

Suspected shark sighting as mourners remember Australian victim (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2009 02:36 AM CST

File photo shows a white pointer shark. A large shark has been reportedly spotted near to where a beach memorial was being held for an Australian swimmer killed by one of the predators, an official has said.(AFP/File/Jeannot Lapeyre)AFP - A large shark was reportedly spotted Wednesday near to where a beach memorial was being held for an Australian swimmer killed by one of the predators, an official said.

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