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Palestinians distribute food aid received from Unwra in Rafah, southern Gaza, 8 Jan 2009
UN suspends Gaza aid operations
The United Nations says it is suspending aid work in Gaza because staff have been killed and injured in Israeli attacks.
Bowen: Unanswered questions
Q&A: Gaza conflict
Gaza voices: Brief lull
Gaza conflict map
Israelis back action, for now
Gaza pounded by air

Barack Obama answers questions from the press on 5 January Obama urges action on economy
US President-elect Barack Obama says that a huge stimulus package is urgently needed to revive the US economy.

Gas pipelines in Slovakia Russia 'to restore gas to Europe'
Russian PM Vladimit Putin says Moscow will resume pumping gas to Europe, as Ukraine says it will guarantee its transit.


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Snow falls in southern France, 7 Jan 2009 In pictures
Record winter chill grips large parts of Europe
Gas pressure gauge in Boyarka, Ukraine Deep rifts
Why Russia and Ukraine are letting Europe go cold

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AFRICA
Rwanda's army chief in DR Congo
Ethiopia clamps down on khat dens

AMERICAS
US cartoon provokes Colombia ire
Christmas sales in US disappoint

ASIA-PACIFIC
Asia job cuts amid economy woes
Veteran Chinese activist jailed

EUROPE
Commerzbank is part nationalised
Czechs warn on EU fiscal plans

MIDDLE EAST
Canada expels US woman deserter
Women banned from Baghdad shrine

SOUTH ASIA
Top Sri Lankan editor shot dead
India IT firm faces scandal probe

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
Afghanistan's continuing misery
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Chinese woman tries on clothing Frugal fashion
China's once extravagant young learn to economise
The donkey known as Queen Helena Low-brow books?
Donkey libraries help Ethiopians learn to read
A masked militant supporter of Maulana Fazlullah, a hardline cleric, raises a sword and a knife as he stands guard outside a building, where paramilitary troops from the Frontier Corps are detained, in Charabagh near Mingora, Nov 2007 Diary from Swat
Bodies, beatings and mistrust in Taleban stronghold
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