Members of the secular Fatah movement, which controls the Palestinian Authority, are divided over how the group should respond to the ongoing Israeli offensive against Hamas.
The shift shows how the global financial crisis is hampering Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez?s ideological agenda and making him more pragmatic as he seeks to bolster his country?s stream of income.
AP - Witnesses say Israeli ground troops are advancing into crowded residential areas of Gaza City and thousands of terrified residents are fleeing their homes.
AP - President-elect Barack Obama would spend the remaining $350 billion of a financial bailout fund on expanded lending and reduced foreclosures and would not use the money to help other industries, lawmakers said Wednesday after discussions with Obama emissaries.
AP - The cold wave that stunned the nation's midsection expanded into the Northeast on Wednesday with subzero temperatures and biting wind that kept even some winter sports fans at home.
The coldest air of the season will sweep down through the Upper Midwest and settle over the East and South -- reaching as far at the Gulf of Mexico over the next few days, according to meteorologists. Frigid air gripped cities from the Canadian border to Florida on Wednesday, with some cities posting record lows.
A Senate fight looms Thursday over President-elect Barack Obama's attempt to release the second $350 billion of the Troubled Asset Relief Program funds to the Treasury Department, CNNMoney reports. Some GOP senators who voted for the first half of the funds said they plan to oppose it this time.
Hanso Devi has nowhere to go. She sits with her children on a bed atop a pile of rubble -- all that is left of her home. All around her are families in the same wasteland, their homes demolished by a city looking to clean up but with nowhere to rehouse residents. "It's like we were picked up and thrown away," she says.