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Israel orders brief halt, then Gaza fight resumes (AP)

Palestinians read leaflets dropped by an Israeli aircraft over their houses in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009. Residents on the Gaza-Egypt border say Israel dropped leaflets in the area, urging them to leave, presumably because of planned air strikes. Israel TV's Channel 10 said residents were given until 8 p.m. Wednesday to get out. Hamas' weapons smuggling tunnels are located in the area, and Israel has already destroyed dozens of them in repeated airstrikes. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)AP - 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.


AP Gaza reporter finds hometown in rubble (AP)

In this file photo dated Dec. 28, 2008, Palestinian prisoners flee over the rubble of the central security headquarters and prison, known as the Saraya, after it was hit in an Israeli missile strike in in Gaza City. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)AP - 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 (AP)

In this Nov. 28, 2008 file photo, National Security Guard commandos come down a rope to reach the top of Nariman House, a location under siege by suspected militants in Mumbai, India. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009, that he did not believe the November Mumbai attacks gunmen were acting alone, and Pakistani state agencies must have had a hand in the attacks. A ruthless exchange from a transcript of phone calls Indian authorities say they intercepted during the attack were part of a dossier of evidence New Delhi handed Pakistan this week that it says definitively proves that the siege was launched from across the border.  (AP Photo/ File)AP - "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 (AP)

A Bosnian worker cuts wood by the roadside at  the northern entrance to Sarajevo on Wednesday Jan. 7, 2009. Small entrepreneurs have started selling wood and coal after deliveries of Russian natural gas to Bosnia were stopped on Tuesday evening. Bosnian officials say over 72,000 Sarajevo households have been left without heating. With temperature hitting minus 10 and Bosnia having no reserves, the city's gas operator Sarajevogas warns that the situation could become a humanitarian disaster. Bosnia imports all of its gas from Russia through Ukraine, Hungary and Serbia.(AP Photo/Hidajet Delic)AP - Russia shut off all gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine on Wednesday — leaving more than a dozen countries scrambling to cope during a winter cold snap. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin endorsed the move and urged that international observers be brought in to monitor the energy dispute.


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

Iraqi Shiites beat their chests as they mark Ashura in Karbala, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009.  Ashura falls on the 10th day of Muharram in the Islamic calendar and marks the anniversary of the death of Imam Hussein, who was killed in 680 A.D. during the battle of Karbala. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)AP - A female suicide bomber allegedly planning to blow herself up among Shiite pilgrims was arrested Wednesday in northern Iraq, as millions joined processions across the country to honor the martyrdom of one of their most revered saints, Iraqi police said.


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