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UNITED NATIONS – The United States has blocked approval of a U.N. Security Council statement calling for an immediate cease-fire between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers, diplomats said.

French U.N. Ambassador Jean-Maurice Ripert, the council president, said the 15 council members could not agree on a statement in closed discussions held after Israel launched a ground invasion into the Gaza Strip on Saturday. But he said there were “strong convergences” among the members to express concern about the deteriorating situation in Gaza and the need for “an immediate, permanent and fully respected cease-fire.”

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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Israeli ground troops and tanks cut swaths through the Gaza Strip early Sunday, bisecting the coastal territory and surrounding its biggest city as the new phase of a devastating offensive against Hamas gained momentum.

Thousands of soldiers in three brigade-size formations pushed into Gaza after nightfall Saturday, beginning a long-awaited ground offensive after a week of intense aerial bombardment. Black smoke billowed over Gaza City at first light and bursts of machine gun fire rang out

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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israel, under international pressure, is considering a 48-hour halt to its punishing four-day air campaign on Hamas targets in Gaza to see if Palestinian militants will stop their rocket attacks on southern Israel, Israeli officials said Tuesday.

Any offer would be coupled with a threat to send in ground troops if the rocket fire continues.

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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — A ninth body has been found in the rubble of a home that was set afire after a shooting rampage by a man in a Santa Claus suit, the Los Angeles County coroner’s office said Friday.
A car exploded outside the home of Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, who is suspected in the deaths of nine people.

A car exploded outside the home of Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, who is suspected in the deaths of nine people.

On Thursday night a pipe bomb exploded in a rental car used by the man suspected in the Christmas Eve attack, police said.

The car was parked outside a Sylmar, California, home where Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, 45, committed suicide hours after he opened fire at a holiday party and then started a raging blaze inside a Covina, California, home, police said.

Investigators have yet to identify the charred bodies recovered from the burned house, which belonged to the parents of Pardo’s ex-wife. Eight bodies were found in the hours after the fire; the ninth person had been counted as missing. Video Watch how the massacre unfolded »

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No one expected to find Donna Molnar alive.

Searchers had combed the brutal backcountry of rural Ontario for the housewife from the city of Hamilton, who had left her home three days earlier in the middle of a blizzard to grocery shop.

Alongside his search-and-rescue dog Ace, Ray Lau on Monday tramped through the thick, ice-covered brush of a farmer’s field, not far from where Molnar’s van had been found a day earlier.

He kept thinking: Negative-20 winds? This is a search for a body.

“Then, oh, all of a sudden, Ace bolted off,” said Lau. “He stooped and looked down at the snow and just barked, barked, barked.”

Lau rushed to his Dutch shepherd’s side.

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Update: Now ninth body found ruins of home
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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — At least three people were found dead after a man dressed as Santa Claus started shooting at a Christmas Eve party in suburban Los Angeles, police said Thursday.
Bruce Jeffery Pardo is a “person of interest” in the incident, authorities say.

Bruce Jeffery Pardo is a “person of interest” in the incident, authorities say.

An 8-year-old girl and a woman in her 20s were hospitalized with gunshot wounds that authorities do not consider life-threatening.

Crews took a third person to a hospital with an injury that wasn’t life-threatening and wasn’t caused by gunfire, said police in Covina, a city about 20 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.

The shooting started around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday.

When police arrived at the two-story house, they discovered a fire that caused “significant damage.” Authorities found three people dead inside but said they do not know how the three died. Their identities had not been released Thursday morning.

“There was some source of ignition that caused the fire,” Covina police Lt. Pat Buchanan said at a news conference Thursday morning. “We’ve not been able to identify it yet.”

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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Fourteen crew and officers, mostly from the Philippines, have been stranded for three months in an Argentine river on a cargo ship abandoned by its owner, surviving on charity donations of food and water.

The Philippine consulate was working to help the crew, who had not been paid, leave the ship and fly home, a coast guard official told Reuters.

The Symphony I, a Liberian-flagged vessel owned by Greek-based Harmony Navigation, sailed into Argentina’s River Plate in September, planning to load soy oil, the coast guard said.

But local authorities detained the ship because of lawsuits against its owner for not paying clients and providers. The company abandoned the vessel and the crew anchored it in the huge river, a few miles from the city of La Plata.

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A philandering husband allegedly strangled his wife to death, smeared her in peanut butter and dumped her body in a ditch hoping wild animals would devour the evidence, a report claims.

New York police say William Walsh, 29, has admitted to killing wife Leah after the pair had an explosive argument about his infidelities in the early hours of October 26.

Walsh dumped her body then tried to make it appear like she had been kidnapped by making public pleas for help, police allege.

Now a report in the New York Post claims Walsh’s morbid plan included having his wife’s body eaten by wild animals. Police earlier stated the dead teacher’s body was found covered in peanut butter.

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