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Wednesday, 07 January 2009 |
KYIV, Ukraine - Russia has shut off all its gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine - the latest move in a pricing dispute that has reduced or halted fuel deliveries to a dozen countries during a winter cold snap.
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Wednesday, 07 January 2009 |
JERUSALEM - The Israeli military says it will briefly halt its operations in Gaza during the day to allow in humanitarian aid and fuel.
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Wednesday, 07 January 2009 |
WASHINGTON - Four men being held as terror suspects at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan are asking a federal judge for the right to sue for their release - a right already given to detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
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Wednesday, 07 January 2009 |
JERUSALEM - The United Nations agency dealing with Palestinian refugees says it's certain that Hamas militants were not using its school to attack Israeli troops.
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Wednesday, 07 January 2009 |
WICHITA, Kan. - No one claims to know what happened that summer in 1999 when 11-year-old Adam Herrman disappeared from the mobile home park where he lived with his adoptive parents.
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Wednesday, 07 January 2009 |
KABUL, Afghanistan - The U.S. military says coalition forces have killed 32 armed insurgents during a clash in eastern Afghanistan.
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Wednesday, 07 January 2009 |
KYIV, Ukraine - 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.
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Wednesday, 07 January 2009 |
GAZA CITY, Gaza - France and Egypt announced an initiative to stop the fighting in Gaza late Tuesday, hours after Israeli mortar shells exploded near a United Nations school sheltering hundreds of people displaced by the onslaught on Hamas militants. At least 30 Palestinians died, staining streets with blood.
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama says the nation probably faces huge deficits for years to come, but heavy spending is needed now to spur the economy.
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
GAZA CITY, Gaza - An Israeli bombardment struck outside a UN school where hundreds of Palestinians had sought refuge on Tuesday, the U.S. and Palestinian medics said, killing at least 30 people - many of them children whose parents wailed in grief at a hospital filled with dead and wounded.
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
PARIS - Government officials and Jewish leaders are concerned the conflict in Gaza may spill over into violence in Europe, with attacks reported against Jews and synagogues in France, Sweden and Britain.
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
WASHINGTON - A U.S. federal judge has accused the Bush administration of hiding evidence in the case of a Yemeni man who has been held as a terror suspect at Guantanamo Bay for six years.
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
ST. JOHNS, Ariz. - Prosecutors in eastern Arizona have agreed not to use statements made by a nine-year-old boy as they pursue murder charges against him.
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
BERLIN - German billionaire Adolf Merckle threw himself in front of a train after his business empire, which included interests ranging from VW cars to pharmaceuticals to cement, ran into trouble in the global financial crisis, his family said Tuesday.
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