Hurley's World

As the Israeli military surrounded densely populated Gaza City on Tuesday, it says it has killed 130 Hamas fighters since beginning a ground offensive over the weekend.

Mohammed Abu Hassanin may be a young boy, but he's old enough to know he's scared of the attacks being launched by Israel in Gaza.

U.S. President George W. Bush on Tuesday will designate nine sites in three areas of the central Pacific as marine national monuments, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Monday.

Mohammed Abu Hassanin may be a young boy, but he's old enough to know he's scared of the attacks being launched by Israel in Gaza.

Hundreds of people in southern Afghanistan have burned Israeli flags and shouted anti-Israel and anti-American slogans to protest Israel's military action in Gaza, according to eyewitness accounts from a CNN stringer.

Hundreds of people in southern Afghanistan have burned Israeli flags and shouted anti-Israel and anti-American slogans to protest Israel's military action in Gaza, according to eyewitness accounts from a CNN stringer.

The Israeli military encircled densely populated Gaza City late Monday as the death toll topped 500. Friendly fire also killed three Israeli troops in an explosion in northern Gaza, military officials say.

"Listen, listen to this!" shouts Fida Qishta as the crackling of rockets is heard over her phone receiver.

"Listen, listen to this!" shouts Fida Qishta as the crackling of rockets is heard over her phone receiver.

At least 30 people died in a landslide in Guatemala, and officials expect the death toll to increase, news reports said Monday.

Gaza's main hospital, already overloaded with Palestinians wounded in the week-long Israeli air assault, has reached critical mass, according to a Norwegian doctor volunteering at Shifa Hospital.

Thai police charged a Bangkok nightclub owner on Monday in connection with a New Year's Eve fire that has claimed the lives of at least 64 people, police said.

Gunmen attacked a riot police unit in Athens Monday, seriously injuring an officer following weeks of violent protests sparked by the deadly police shooting of a teenager last month.

India has handed evidence it says links the November massacre in Mumbai to "elements in Pakistan" over to Pakistani government officials, its foreign ministry announced Monday.

Asia markets pushed largely higher at the start of the first full trading week of 2009, with Tokyo's Nikkei average up more than 2 percent at Monday's midday break.

A 10-year-old girl was killed and 35 other people wounded in a major earthquake near the north coast of West Papua, Indonesia, government officials said.

A Taliban rocket attack in southern Afghanistan has killed an Australian soldier, that country's defense ministry announced Monday.

Israeli troops gained control of the eastern section of northern Gaza Sunday, less than 24 hours after launching a ground incursion, according to Palestinian security sources. At least 37 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza Sunday, Palestinian medical sources said.

Two journalists -- one British and one Spanish -- who were kidnapped in Somalia in November have been released, according to a Somali press group.

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