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The U.N. Security Council called for an "immediate" and "durable" cease-fire in Gaza in a resolution Thursday night even as fighting between Israel and Hamas raged — with early morning airstrikes killing seven Palestinians and pushing the death toll to about 760 in the near two-week conflict. Complete Story...
Amnesty International: Israeli troops using Palestinian families as human shieldsMissile reportedly kills top al-Qaida operativesA Gaza Fighter Who Smiled at the Civilian Casualties He CausesFoolish Evil Anti-Semite Rant of the Day: Jimmy CarterHomophobic families harm gay teenagers, study claimsAgreement made on Gaza cease-fire resolution, diplomats sayIsrael is following the Powell Doctrine
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Tiny bodies lying side by side wrapped in white burial shrouds. The cherubic face of a dead preschooler sticking up from the rubble of her home. A man cradling a wounded boy in a chaotic emergency room after Israel shelled a U.N. school.
Ana Maria Calvo has fought unsuccessfully for seven months to correct her husband's name on her child's birth certificate.
The official Moroccan news agency says an Islamist convicted in the deadly 2003 Casablanca bombings who escaped from prison has been caught in neighboring Algeria and returned home.
A convicted Colombian drug baron with links to two major smuggling cartels was shot dead in a Madrid hospital Thursday, officials said.
The head of the U.N. Development Program, which promotes anti-poverty efforts around the globe, is resigning, the United Nations announced Thursday.
Five months after Russia crushed the Georgian army in the foothills of the Caucasus, Moscow is once again embroiled in a conflict with a former Soviet neighbor: waging an economic war with Ukraine that has disrupted natural gas delivery across Europe.
Rebels and aid workers say government airplanes have dropped bombs along a northern strip in Darfur. It's the first such report of violence in weeks.
The long-running hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay has grown to 30 prisoners, the highest number in months.
A strong earthquake shook Costa Rica on Thursday, killing at least three people and sending frightened residents running into the streets of the capital as windows shattered and walls cracked.
An Albanian civil rights group said Thursday it had sued the government to force it to divulge information on an alleged CIA abduction five years ago.
Hundreds of people lined streets in Algeria's capital Thursday to donate blood for wounded Palestinians in Gaza in a government-sponsored solidarity effort, amid fears Algerian outrage over the violence could spill over at home.
Gaston Lenotre, considered one of France's best-ever pastry-makers, died Thursday. He was 88.
Iran's top leader banned hardline Iranian volunteers on Thursday from leaving the country to carry out suicide bombings against Israel, but warned that Iran would assist the militant group Hamas in other ways.
She's out of the maternity ward and into a Cabinet meeting, dressed in elegant black and stiletto heels — five days after giving birth at age 43. Justice Minister Rachida Dati, single and guarding the daddy's name like a state secret, doesn't stop surprising the French.
An American man wanted in Texas on child sex abuse charges was arrested Thursday in Thailand and could be sent to the U.S. within days, the district attorney's office in Houston said.
Hundreds of passengers on a Swiss-owned cruise ship were stricken with severe vomiting and diarrhea caused by a mysterious ailment, Brazilian health officials said Thursday.
Some hefted their luggage on bamboo shoulder poles. Others carried their things in plastic buckets. All were migrant workers hurrying to get home Thursday before China's Lunar New Year festival — a holiday that triggers one of the world's biggest annual migrations of humans.
Gaza fighting takes toll on childrenAs many as 257 children and teens have been killed and many more wounded in the fighting in Gaza, according to Palestinian medics and human rights groups.
ISRAEL (pop 6.5 million) receives more American Taxpayer Dollars than the impoverished nations of Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and the Caribbean (pop 1.1 billion+) COMBINED.In the midst of perhaps the worst economic crisis since the great depression, it's incredible that Israel continues to receive billions in taxpayer dollars, even as it rains bombs down on the civilian population of Gaza with impunity.
Clean up the terrorist training camps: US lawmaker to PakWASHINGTON: In an unequivocal strong message to Islamabad, an influential US lawmaker has asked Pakistan to "clean up" the terrorist training camps and bring to justice the perpetrators of the Mumbai attack.
Church grabs chance to attack birth control pillRoman Catholic leaders have pounced on a "confession" by one of the inventors of the birth control pill who has said the contraceptive he helped create was responsible for a "demographic catastrophe".
Israeli Soldiers Ordered 100 Into House, Then Shelled It, Killing 70 Last Sunday Israeli soldiers ordered approximately 100 members of the extended al-Samouni family to gather into one single house in the town of Zeitoun near Gaza City.
kents cavern disaster exerciseMORE than 100 members of the emergency services will be involved in a major disaster planning exercise at Kents Cavern in Torquay next week.
UN backs ceasefire call for GazaThe 15-strong UN Security Council has voted for a resolution asking for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, with the US alone abstaining. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said that members were distressed by the plight of victims and their families on both sides.
Jews Against Zionism Issue Statement on Gaza ConflictMany Orthodox Jews are speaking out against the Israeli attack on Palestine and are trying to inform the world that not all Jews are Zionists.
Israel Broke the Ceasefire, Not HamasThe Nov 4 raid -- and the escalation that followed -- also went unreported by the major U.S. network and cable television new programmes, according to a search of the Nexis database for all English-language news coverage between Nov. 4 and 7.
ICRC finds children, dead mothers at scene of Gaza fightingJERUSALEM (AFP) – The Red Cross on Thursday accused Israel of failing to help wounded people in an area of Gaza where its rescuers found four small children huddling next to their dead mothers, too weak to stand up.
Dementia drug death risk warningExperts have condemned the commonplace prescribing of sedatives to people in the UK with dementia.
Eight Children Survive Almost A Week with Dead Family Under Bombed Gaza House>>The story of eight children of Al-Samouni family who survived six days together with their beloved dead family under the rubble of their house in Gaza, and the story of dead people who are still under the rubble of their houses in Gaza and the barring of the rescuers from gath …
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