The Israeli army announced it would halt its bombardment of Gaza between 10am (0700 GMT) and 3pm (1200 GMT) local time following a UN request for a humanitarian truce.
AFTER six months of watching one town after another fall to the insurgents, the Americans and their Iraqi allies have gone on the offensive since their troops stormed the city of Samarra, some 100km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, which had see-sawed between central-government and insurgent control ever since American forces evacuated it under bombardment in July.
But, although it dispenses with flying sets, high-kicking chorines and orchestral bombardment, it is anything but artless: in fact it owes its success not just to its versatile performers but to the quiet brilliance of John Tiffany's direction and Bob Crowley's design.
The week-long bombardment, it turned out, had been impressive mainly for its noise.
Walk on the wrong street and it's constant bombardment.
After the bombardment it took the Indians 10 years before they got back on their feet.
Not only did it absorb the bombardment, but Herron also recklessly ordered his foot soldiers to attack — without realizing that trees behind the rebel cannons obscured Confederate infantry.
Fortunately for him, the fear passed before he moved to his new sanctuary, because a few years later it was under bombardment.
In the north, the army took control of the flashpoint village of Aziza, following several days of fierce bombardment, it said.
The camp, near Khost in the eastern reaches of Afghanistan, within miles of the Pakistan border, was once known locally as "rocket city" for all the enemy bombardment it used to receive.
