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    • Israeli strikes, Hamas rockets resume after pause 34 min ago

      Israeli airstrikes and Hamas rockets resumed after a brief pause Wednesday to allow food and fuel to reach Palestinian civilians in Gaza, where an Israeli warplane dropped leaflets urging some residents to flee because of imminent attacks.

    • Gulp! Mexico tells citizens to swallow their gum 38 min ago

      The country that gave the world chewing gum is getting gummed up: The average square yard (meter) of Mexico City sidewalk has 70 blobs of discarded chew.

    • AP Gaza reporter finds hometown in rubble 2 hrs ago

      I live alone in my office. My wife and two young children moved in with her father after our apartment was shattered. The neighborhood mosque, where I have prayed since I was a child, had its roof blown off. All the government buildings on my beat have been obliterated.

    • Handlers on phone ordered Mumbai gunmen to kill 3 hrs ago

      "Keep your phone switched on," a handler instructs a gunman by phone in the midst of the Mumbai siege, "so that we can hear the gunfire."

    • Russia stops all gas supply to Europe via Ukraine 1 hr ago

      Russia cut off all gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine on Wednesday, playing hardball in a weeklong standoff that has left more than a dozen countries struggling to cope with dwindling energy supplies in the depths of winter.

    • US General: Anbar lacks support of Iraq government 1 hr ago

      The top American commander in the former insurgent stronghold of Anbar said Wednesday the Shiite-led government should have poured reconstruction money into the Sunni region after Sunni fighters joined forces with U.S. troops to chase al-Qaida out of the western province.

    • US: Troops kill 32 insurgents in east Afghanistan 4 hrs ago

      U.S.-led forces raided a Taliban bomb-making cell in eastern Afghanistan, killing 32 insurgents in a battle with scores of armed militants who shot at them from rooftops and alleyways, the military said Wednesday.

    • 12 deaths blamed on snow and cold across Europe 3 hrs ago

      Freezing temperatures and exceptional snowfall caused travel delays Wednesday across Europe and were blamed for at least 12 deaths, including that of a man in Milan who was crushed when a canopy collapsed under the weight of snow.

    • Iraqi cleric urges attacks on US troops over Gaza 16 min ago

      Anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday urged reprisals against American forces in Iraq to protest Israel's Gaza offensive, as Arab anger grows over civilian deaths in the Palestinian territory.

    • Rice says US backs Egypt-France initiative on Gaza 32 min ago

      Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the United States is supporting a Gaza cease-fire initiative offered by France and Egypt.
      Speaking with reporters at the U.N., Rice says she has met with Arab diplomats and the Israelis to discuss the need to proceed with the initiative.

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