Bush puts onus on Hamas for any Gaza truce
By Matt Spetalnick
WASHINGTON, Jan 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush insisted on Monday that any ceasefire to end the Gaza crisis must include provisions to prevent Hamas from continuing to use the coastal strip to fire rockets into Israel.
New Body To Regulate Foreign Marriage In Cambodia
PHNOM PENH, Jan 6 (Bernama) -- A new organization to regulate foreign marriage has been created following the lifting of a six- month suspension of such unions in 2008, China's Xinhua news agency quoted an English-language daily newspaper as saying on Tuesday.
Bush to declare Pacific areas protected monuments
By Jeff Mason
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush will designate nearly 200,000 square miles of the Pacific ocean on Tuesday as a protected region, White House officials said, making the areas hands-off for oil drilling or other extraction procedures.
Israel deaf to truce calls as Gaza battles rage on
By Nidal al-Mughrabi
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops backed by air strikes fought to seize ground from Hamas militants deep inside the Gaza Strip on Monday despite international calls for a ceasefire in a conflict that has killed more than 540 Palestinians in 10 days.
Politics, diplomacy behind Obama's Gaza silence
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Even as Israelis and Palestinians plunged deeper into conflict, U.S. President-elect Barack Obama remained silent, refusing to budge from his one-president-at-a-time mantra.
