Middle East

• Israel Launches Attack on Lebanon

• Iran Asks State Employees to Donate Wages To Gaza

• Israel rejects any ceasefire while Hamas launches rocket attacks

• Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy discuss crisis in Gaza

• Humanitarian Crisis worsens with water and sewage system “collapsing” in Gaza

• 40 Shi’ite pilgrims killed by female suicide bomber at Baghdad shrine

• Iraqis want free food program to continue

• Israeli ground assault begins in Gaza Strip

• 440 Killed, 2,285 people injured as air strikes continue in Gaza

• Physicians for Human Rights Criticizes Iran for Trying AIDS Doctors on Secret Charges

• Senior Hamas Leader Killed in Israeli Air Strike

• No Cease Fire Says Israel

• Israeli PM Olmert says campaign in Gaza in its ‘initial stages’

• Problems Surround Disbanding Of Iranian Rebel Camp In Iraq

• Egypt increases security on Gaza border after death of Egyptian guard

• Israel moves tanks and infantry close to Gaza

• More than 195 killed as Israeli air strikes hit Gaza

• Iran hosting its first fashion and costume-design festival

• Militant Rocket in northern Gaza kills two Palestinian children

• Israeli Prime Minister issues personal “last-minute” appeal to Palestinians

• Iranian students to hold shoe-throwing competition

• Archaeologists reveal the discovery of ‘new’ 4,300-year-old tombs in Egypt

• 24-hour ceasefire declared in Palestine to allow aid into Gaza

• Iran Starts Receiving s-300 Air Defense Systems From Russia

• Militants in Palestine launch rockets against Israel as truce ends

• UN agency for Palestinian refugees suspends food distribution services in the Gaza Strip

• Pentagon has Briefed Obama Transition Team on Iraq Pullout

• Iran’s Most Powerful Leader becomes even more powerful

• Bahraini businessman wants to give his Mercedes limousine to shoe throwing journalist in Iraq

• Shoe attack on President Bush a sign of the fury and anger which prevails amongst Iraqis