AP - Israeli forces grabbed a Hamas field commander from his Gaza home Saturday, setting off heavy fighting that killed the wanted man's 14-year-old daughter and wounded 10 Palestinians, including seven gunmen.
AP - Yossi Harel, the ship commander whose attempt to bring Holocaust survivors to Palestine aboard the Exodus 1947 built support for Israel's founding, died on Saturday. He was 90.
Reuters - Billions of aid dollars pledged to
the Palestinians to bolster peace talks with Israel are having
a muted economic impact because of Israeli restrictions on
travel and trade, the World Bank said on Sunday.
AP - As of Saturday, April 26, 2008, at least 4,052 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,306 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
AP - The remains of an Ohio soldier missing since he was captured in Iraq almost four years ago were returned to his home state on Saturday, and hundreds of mourners lined the streets with American flags as a police procession led his casket to a memorial service.
AP - Turkey's prime minister flew to Damascus Saturday and said he was trying to restart direct talks between Syria and Israel, stepping up his nation's behind-the-scenes efforts to negotiate a peace deal between the longtime enemies.
AP - The chief of Hamas said Saturday that the Palestinian militant group would accept an Egyptian proposal for a cease-fire with Israel but it would be a "tactic" in the group's struggle with the Jewish state.
AP - Conservatives consolidated control of Iran's legislature in run-off elections but opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gained strength, according to final results Saturday.
AFP - A missile fired from a US unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) killed two Shiite militiamen in Baghdad's Sadr City on Saturday, the American military said in a statement.
AP - Iraq's Sunni Arab vice president on Saturday called the return of his boycotting political bloc to the Shiite-led Cabinet a priority, saying the government needs to reconcile quickly to "save Iraq."