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•CNN's Gupta considered for surgeon general
4 minutes ago
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a neurosurgeon and CNN's chief medical reporter, tops U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's list for surgeon general, CNN confirmed.
[From Top News - UPI.com]
•Pakistan angrily denies Mumbai claims
4 minutes ago
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Pakistani leaders say Indian suggestions that official agencies may have been involved in training November's Mumbai terrorists are pushing the region to war.
[From Top News - UPI.com]
•Troops, militants clash in Kashmir
26 minutes ago
NEW DELHI, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Fighting between security forces and militants in a forested and mountainous region of India-controlled Kashmir entered its seventh day Wednesday.
[From Top News - UPI.com]
•Pakistan spy chief: No war with India
29 minutes ago
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- The new chief of Pakistan's spy agency says there will be no war with India, but also says militant Taliban leaders have a right to "say what they please."
[From Top News - UPI.com]
•Quake shakes Indonesia's West Papua area
42 minutes ago
JAKARTA, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- A strong earthquake rattled Indonesia's West Papua province Wednesday, the latest in a series of tremors striking the region, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
[From Top News - UPI.com]
•Israel halts campaign for 3 hours to let in aid
by By IBRAHIM BARZAK and MATTI FRIEDMAN
43 minutes ago
GAZA CITY, Gaza (AP) -- Israel ordered a pause in its Gaza offensive for three hours Wednesday to allow food and fuel to reach besieged Palestinians, and the country's leaders debated whether to accept an international cease-fire plan or expand the assault against Hamas....
[From AP Top Headlines At 7:21 a.m. EST]
•Actress Alyssa Milano to wed Hollywood agent
52 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Alyssa Milano is engaged to marry a Hollywood agent. Publicists for Milano said Tuesday that the actress accepted a marriage proposal on Dec. 18 from David Bugliari, an agent at Creative Artists Agency. The two have been dating for over a year. No wedding date has been set....
[From AP Top Headlines At 7:21 a.m. EST]
•Russian gas flow halted through Ukraine to Europe
52 minutes ago
MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) - Russian gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine shut down completely Wednesday, leaving growing numbers of European Union member states without Russian fuel in freezing mid-winter temperatures.
[From Reuters: Top News]
•Egypt floats truce plan after Gaza school deaths
56 minutes ago
GAZA (Reuters) - Israel and Hamas studied an Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday that won immediate backing from the United States and Europe, hours after Israeli shells killed 42 Palestinians at a U.N. school.
[From Reuters: Top News]
•Transcript: Mumbai gunmen were commanded by phone
by By SAM DOLNICK
1 hour ago
NEW DELHI (AP) -- "We have three foreigners, including women," the gunman said into the phone. The response was brutally simple: "Kill them." Gunshots then rang out inside the Mumbai hotel, followed by cheering that could be heard over the phone....
[From AP Top Headlines At 7:21 a.m. EST]
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