The UN Security Council called early on Sunday for an immediate halt to all military activities in Gaza a day after Israeli air strikes in response to rocket fire by Gaza militants against Israel.
// Dec. 28, 2008 - 08:31 GMT
Israel is pulling tanks and infantry reinforcements close to Gaza in preparation for a possible attack on Hamas militants, Israel's Ynet web portal and the Israeli newspaper Jerusalem Post reported on Sunday.
// Dec. 28, 2008 - 09:06 GMT
The Israeli Air Force has bombed a major command post of the radical militant group Hamas in Gaza, killing at least four Palestinians, a source in the Palestinian enclave said on Sunday.
// Dec. 28, 2008 - 11:39 GMT
Russian diplomats have begun drawing up lists of Russian citizens for their possible evacuation from Gaza, which has been hit by massive Israeli airstrikes, the Russian embassy to Israel said on Sunday.
// Dec. 28, 2008 - 12:50 GMT
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov urged an end to military actions in the Gaza Strip and the need to allow humanitarian aid into the enclave, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.
// Dec. 28, 2008 - 14:37 GMT
A delegation of Ukrainian parliamentarians led by parliamentary speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn has arrived in Moscow to discuss the ex-Soviet republic's gas debt to Russia, Ukraine's news agency UNIAN reported on Sunday.
// Dec. 28, 2008 - 15:14 GMT