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Gaza truce proposed after Israeli shell kills 30 (AP)

Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike on a street near a U.N. school, after an Israeli attack killed dozens of Palestinians, in Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009. An Israeli bombardment struck outside a U.N. school where hundreds of Palestinians had sought refuge on Tuesday, the U.N. 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. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)AP - France and Egypt announced an initiative to stop the fighting in Gaza late Tuesday, hours after Israeli mortar shells exploded near a U.N. school sheltering hundreds of people displaced by the onslaught on Hamas militants. At least 30 Palestinians died, staining streets with blood.
Egypt and France propose plan to end Gaza conflict (AP)

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.
Ukraine says Russia stops sending gas to Europe (AP)

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 - Ukraine says Russia has cut off all gas supplies to Europe amid a devastating gas dispute with its neighbor.
Aruba prosecutor: End is near in Holloway case (AP)

AP - Aruban prosecutors said Tuesday their investigation into the 2005 disappearance of U.S. teenager Natalee Holloway is nearing the end and appealed for anyone with information to come forward.
Report: Al-Qaida No. 2 blames Obama for Gaza fight (AP)

AP - Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader lashed out at President-elect Barack Obama in a new audio message Tuesday, accusing him of not doing anything to stop Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip, according to an intelligence monitoring center.
Ukraine says Russia halts all European transit gas (Reuters)

Map of Russia and Europe showing countries where supplies of Russian gas have dropped. Gas shortages spread across Europe as far west as France and Italy on Tuesday as cuts in Russian supplies through Ukrainian pipelines escalated an increasingly bitter crisis in the depths of winter.(AFP/Graphic)Reuters - Ukraine's state energy company Naftogaz said on Wednesday that Russia had cut off all gas supplies to Europe via Ukrainian territory at 0544 GMT (12:44 a.m. EST).
Analysis: In Gaza fight, Iran lurks in background (AP)

An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires a shell towards Gaza from its position outside the central Gaza Strip January 6, 2009. (Baz Ratner/Reuters)AP - Israel's fight with Hamas in Gaza, like the war with Hezbollah in Lebanon two years ago, is not just a struggle over the Palestinian issue but a broader proxy battle between Western allies and Iran for the very future of the Middle East.
Gunmen attack TV station in northern Mexico (AP)

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.
Mugabe appoints acting ministers: Herald (AFP)

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has appointed eight acting ministers days after firing a number of ministers from his ZANU-PF party who lost in the March 2008 elections, state media said on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Desmond Kwande)AFP - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has appointed eight acting ministers days after firing a number of ministers from his ZANU-PF party who lost in the March 2008 elections, state media said on Wednesday.
China issues bird flu alert after woman dies (Reuters)

A woman sells poultry in a market on the outskirts of Beijing in this November 26, 2008 file photo. A 19-year-old woman has died of the H5N1 bird flu virus in Beijing, the Beijing Municipal Bureau and Hong Kong's government said on January 6, 2009. Picture taken November 26, 2008. (Christina Hu/Files/Reuters)Reuters - China issued a bird flu alert Wednesday after a woman died of the virus, the first such death in the country in almost a year, and closed poultry markets for disinfecting in a province surrounding Beijing.
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