Under pressure to ease its 12-day bombardment of the Gaza Strip, Israel agreed to suspend the fighting three hours a day and permit aid delivery.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/world/middleeast/08mideast.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/world/middleeast/08mideast.html" border="0"//a /span

Journalists have been barred from the battle zone in Gaza, but they are given full access to sites in Israel hit by Hamas rockets.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/middleeast/07media.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/middleeast/07media.html" border="0"//a /span

All gas supplies to Europe via Ukraine were shut down as the pricing dispute between it and Russia escalated.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/world/europe/08gazprom.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/world/europe/08gazprom.html" border="0"//a /span

Israel is applying the military insight it gained from the 2006 war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, but diplomatic lessons do not seem to have been so well applied.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/middleeast/07military.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/middleeast/07military.html" border="0"//a /span

An ad campaign for atheism in London is aiming to counter religious ads, one bus billboard at a time.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/europe/07london.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/europe/07london.html" border="0"//a /span

Russia’s gas price dispute with Ukraine escalated, disrupting deliveries to the European Union in the midst of a bitter cold spell.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/europe/07gazprom.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/europe/07gazprom.html" border="0"//a /span

Japan said Tuesday that it would formally ask Australia to keep anti-whaling activists and their ship, the Steve Irwin, from refueling at Australian ports.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/asia/07whale.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/asia/07whale.html" border="0"//a /span

The nation’s provincial elections on Jan. 31 are the first in which the government has deemed it safe enough for the names of office seekers to appear on the ballot.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/middleeast/07election.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/middleeast/07election.html" border="0"//a /span

Kenya and Uganda plan to build a new railway from the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa to cope with increased trade among the East African countries and their landlocked neighbors, officials said.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/business/worldbusiness/07fobriefs-2COUNTRIESPL_BRF.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/business/worldbusiness/07fobriefs-2COUNTRIESPL_BRF.html" border="0"//a /span

The five guards for Blackwater International pleaded not guilty in federal court to manslaughter in the case of the 2007 shootings in Baghdad that left at least 17 Iraqis dead.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/middleeast/07blackwater.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/middleeast/07blackwater.html" border="0"//a /span

Opposition lawmakers ended their violent, 12-day siege of South Korea’s Parliament on Tuesday after successfully delaying a crucial vote on a United States free-trade deal.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/asia/07briefs-OPPOSITIONPA_BRF.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/asia/07briefs-OPPOSITIONPA_BRF.html" border="0"//a /span

India’s national airline has fired nine flight attendants for being overweight, an official said Tuesday.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/asia/07briefs-9FLIGHTATTEN_BRF.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/asia/07briefs-9FLIGHTATTEN_BRF.html" border="0"//a /span

The NATO-led force in Afghanistan on Tuesday rejected claims that its soldiers had killed civilians during an operation against Taliban insurgents in Helmand Province.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/asia/07briefs-NATOFORCEDIS_BRF.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/asia/07briefs-NATOFORCEDIS_BRF.html" border="0"//a /span

The Lord’s Resistance Army, a rebel group, killed at least 12 people in northeastern Congo, officials said Tuesday.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/africa/07briefs-UGANDANREBEL_BRF.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/africa/07briefs-UGANDANREBEL_BRF.html" border="0"//a /span

Sheikh Hasina was sworn in as the country’s prime minister on Tuesday.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/asia/07briefs-PREMIERISSWO_BRF.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/asia/07briefs-PREMIERISSWO_BRF.html" border="0"//a /span

Jacob Zuma, the president of the governing African National Congress, is taking a third wife, according to local press accounts.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/africa/07briefs-ANCLEADERPLA_BRF.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/africa/07briefs-ANCLEADERPLA_BRF.html" border="0"//a /span

Rescuers have ended their search for victims of a landslide in northern Guatemala because rocks raining down from the mountain have made it too dangerous to look for victims.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/americas/07briefs-RESCUERSENDS_BRF.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/americas/07briefs-RESCUERSENDS_BRF.html" border="0"//a /span

Construction workers in Hanoi have found a huge unexploded bomb that is believed to have been dropped by the United States during the Vietnam War.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/asia/07briefs-USBOMBDISCOV_BRF.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/asia/07briefs-USBOMBDISCOV_BRF.html" border="0"//a /span

The move to enforce a law that bans foreign companies from broadcasting in the country effectively bans Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Voice of America and the BBC.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/europe/07azerbaijan.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/europe/07azerbaijan.html" border="0"//a /span

The document compiled by Indian authorities and seen by The Times seems designed to demonstrate that the attackers were sent from Pakistan.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/asia/07india.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/asia/07india.html" border="0"//a /span