Rocket attacks and air strikes threaten fragile ceasefire in Gaza. U.s. President's envoy to visit occupied West Bank following talks with Israel. Israeli leaders have been talking tough on security, a main voter concern. Parents to be given advice on how much children should drink at home.
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TheSun 2009-01-30 Page11 Violence Threatens Gaza Truce as US Envoy Visits
Rocket attacks and air strikes threaten fragile ceasefire in Gaza. U.s. President's envoy to visit occupied West Bank following talks with Israel. Israeli leaders have been talking tough on security, a main voter concern. Parents to be given advice on how much children should drink at home.
Rocket attacks and air strikes threaten fragile ceasefire in Gaza. U.s. President's envoy to visit occupied West Bank following talks with Israel. Israeli leaders have been talking tough on security, a main voter concern. Parents to be given advice on how much children should drink at home.
truce as US envoy visits GAZA: Palestinian rocket attacks planned to meet Palestinian and consolidated”. Two Hamas and Israeli air strikes threatened President Mahmoud Abbas in But with election approach- security men yesterday to undermine efforts the occupied West Bank follow- ing on Feb 10, Israeli leaders stand guard by US President Barack Obama’s ing talks on Wednesday in Egypt, have been talking tough on next to the Middle East envoy to reinforce a which has been trying to broker security, a main voter concern. destroyed fragile Gaza ceasefire. a long-term truce, and Israel. They have pledged a forceful bulding Militants in the Hamas-ruled Mitchell, repeating Obama’s response to an explosion that of the Gaza Strip launched one rocket call for a return to peace talks, killed a soldier on the Gaza Palestinian into Israel late on Wednesday said it was “of critical impor- border on Tuesday. – Reuters parliament – the first since the Jan 18 tance that the Gaza ceasefire which was ceasefire – and another yester- be extended hit by Israeli day. No one was hurt. missiles Israeli aircraft then during Israeli struck in the southern operation in Gaza Strip, attacking a Gaza City on metal workshop that the Wednesday. military called a weapons factory, causing no casu- alties, and a motorcycle, wounding two militants and 10 youths passing by, medical workers said. The surge of violence over the past two days threatened to reignite a war that Israel launched on Dec 27 with the declared aim of ending cross-border rocket fire. Former US senator George Mitchell, Obama’s envoy, EPAPIX
Parents to get advice on
children drinking at home LONDON: Parents are crime. Media reports have to drinking. Last year Government research to be given advice on said Donaldson will rec- Children’s Secretary Ed has found a decline in the how much their children ommend that parents not Balls and Health Secretary number of young drinkers should drink at home in a allow children under 15 to Alan Johnson published a over recent years. But it government consultation consume alcohol. Youth Alcohol Action Plan showed that those who do launched yesterday. The law leaves control which promised to provide drink are consuming more The Chief Medical Of- of drinking at home to a parents with guidance on alcohol and more often. ficer Liam Donaldson will parent’s discretion and their children’s drinking. Britain has one of the set out his guidance as part only bars the consump- They said the advice highest rates in the Euro- of government efforts to tion of alcohol by children would cover: pean Union of hospital ad- reduce the levels of youth under five. » the age at which children mission due to alcohol use drinking. Young people cannot and young people could by 15-16 year olds. Official The government is legally buy alcohol in a start to drink alcohol; figures released this week concerned at an increase bar or shop till they are 18 » how much it is sensible showed there had been in binge drinking among but many parents allow for them to drink; and an increase in the number teenagers and its detri- teenagers a glass of wine » how far parents or carers of alcohol-related deaths mental effect on health, or beer with a meal as a should supervise youth among people aged 15-34 anti-social behaviour and way of introducing them drinking. since 2005. – Reuters
Advisers. The three-member council Somali pirates seize
makes recommendations to the presi- briefs dent on policy options. – Reuters German gas tanker NAIROBI: Somali pirates yesterday Australian girl, four, hijacked a German gas tanker with 13 Filipino and Indonesian crew in thrown from bridge the Gulf of Aden, a Kenyan maritime Senate confirms retired MELBOURNE: A four-year-old Aus- official said. admiral as spy chief tralian girl died yesterday after “There was a heavy exchange of she was thrown off a bridge in gunfire (but) the crew is believed to WASHINGTON: The US Senate con- Melbourne and landed in the Yarra be safe,” said Andrew Mwangura who firmed retired Admiral Dennis Blair River, 58m below, police said. runs the Kenya chapter of the Seafar- to be the country’s top intelligence A man stopped his 4WD car on ers Assistance Programme. official on Wednesday. the West Gate Bridge during peak He added that it was still unclear As director of national intelligence, hour, stepped out of the car carry- whether the exchange was between Blair will oversee all 16 US spy agen- ing the girl and dropped her over different groups of hijackers or with cies, including the CIA. He will also be the edge, a police spokesman told foreign navies patrolling the pirate- responsible for delivering the presi- local media. infested waters. dent’s daily intelligence briefing. “The child suffered fairly exten- The MV Longchamp, with a crew During his confirmation hear- sive injuries and the paramedics of 12 Filipinos and one Indonesian, ing last week, Blair, declined to call spent some time trying to resus- was transporting liquefied petroleum waterboarding torture. His cautious citate the child,” said ambulance gas “from Europe to the Far East”, response reflected a public debate spokesman Paul Bentley. Mwangura said, without giving exact over whether to prosecute CIA The girl’s 35-year-old father was locations. employees who used the simulated arrested just an hour later outside The pirates took control of the drowning technique. Melbourne’s Federal Court, which Bahamas-flagged vessel and headed The Senate also confirmed Chris- hears family case matters, with for the Somali coast, he said. tina Romer, a professor at the Univer- two other children in his car, po- The seizure brings to 16 the number sity of California, Berkeley, to head lice said. The father was charged of ships currently in the hands of pi- the White House Council of Economic with murder. – Reuters rates. – AFP