Palestinian fighters have killed three Israeli soldiers and wounded several more in clashes and rocket attacks on Israel, the Israeli military said. Ten Israeli soldiers have now been killed in combat in Gaza and one by a rocket strike from the ...
8 Jan 2009
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) - A strong earthquake shook Costa Rica on Thursday, killing a child and sending frightened residents running into the streets of the capital as windows shattered and walls cracked. The U.S. Geological Survey said the 6.1 ...
8 Jan 2009
NEW YORK -- It is perhaps the most intriguing unsolved mystery from the gaudy gangland career of John Gotti: Whatever happened to the neighbor who accidentally ran over and killed the mobster's 12-year-old son -- and then vanished? According to ...
8 Jan 2009
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - The United Nations suspended aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip on Thursday and the international Red Cross restricted its convoys after their trucks came under Israeli fire. The threat of a wider conflict, meanwhile, arose when ...
8 Jan 2009
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. Children ...
8 Jan 2009
Recommended (6) A Plan of Attack For Middle East Peace U.S. Office in Iran Unlikely, Say Bush Officials As Hamas Fights, Fatah Mulls Its Next Move Dickey: Can Obama Outwit Hamas, Iran? Barry: Israel's Endgame on Gaza Will Gaza Attack Help or Hurt ...
8 Jan 2009
A gunman shot and killed the outspoken editor of a newspaper that often clashed with politicians on Thursday in the second assault on the media on the Indian Ocean island in three days.
8 Jan 2009
The U.N. halted deliveries to the Gaza Strip on Thursday after gunfire from an Israeli tank killed an aid truck driver, and the international Red Cross said it would restrict activities after one of its drivers was injured in a similar incident.
8 Jan 2009
Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) -- A United Nations aid agency providing relief for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip ceased some operations after two staff members were killed by the Israeli military as the Jewish state pursues its assault on the area.
8 Jan 2009
Two coalition soldiers and three Afghan civilians were killed in southern Afghanistan Thursday in a suicide attack, the NATO-led military force in Afghanistan said.
8 Jan 2009
Eight Iraqi soldiers and two civilians were killed Thursday in three separate attacks in which insurgents used roadside bombs to target the Iraqi Army.
8 Jan 2009
Afghan President Hamid Karzai's office said Thursday that reports suggested 17 civilians, including women and children, were killed in a US raid in eastern Afghanistan this week.
8 Jan 2009
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8 Jan 2009
News24: Africa: News: Second WFP worker killed: Somali gunmen have shot dead a World Food Programme worker - the second in the past week. He'd been overseeing food distribution to displaced people.
8 Jan 2009
Woman killed in crash. Randy Mitchell Staff Writer. Seminole County — A Konawa woman died after a head-on collision Wednesday, according to a report from Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper David Brown. Charlotte Harjo, 52, was driving a ...
8 Jan 2009
No citation for driver who struck, killed boy in west Phoenix, The driver of a pickup truck that struck and killed a 9-year-old boy in west Phoenix Wednesday was not to be cited or charged, police said Thursday. The boy who died while ...
8 Jan 2009
70 deer killed in Duke Forest hunt, ... 70 deer killed in Duke Forest hunt. By: Chelsea Ursaner. Issue date: 1/8/09 Section: News Last update: 1/8/09 at 5:52 AM EST. Print · Email. Page 1 of 1. A four-month hunt to reduce the burgeoning ...
8 Jan 2009
The killed person was identified as Erlan Aitymov, the native of Astana (Kazakhstan), who was the first-year student of Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas. Starting from 2007 LUKOIL covers education costs for the best ...
8 Jan 2009