A roundup of today's other world news in brief:
Fuel supplies into Gaza stop after attack
GAZA- The flow of fuel from Israel into the Gaza Strip came to a halt yesterday, a day after Palestinian militants attacked a border terminal used to supply the Hamas-controlled territory.
Two Israeli civilians were killed in the attack. Two Palestinian militants and two civilians were also killed when Israeli troops backed by tanks responded.
Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert vowed Israel would strike Hamas in such a manner that the Islamist group "will not be able to continue to operate as it does today".
- (Reuters)
Halt to BAE inquiry 'unlawful'
LONDON- Calls were made for a full public inquiry yesterday after the high court ruled that the British government and serious fraud office "unlawfully submitted" to threats that there could be "another 7/7" unless they dropped bribery investigations involving BAE Systems and Saudi Arabia.
Two senior judges condemned the government's "abject surrender" to the "blatant threats" that Saudi co-operation in the fight against terror would end unless the inquiry into corruption was halted.
- (PA)
McCanns call for EU alert system
BRUSSELS- The parents of missing British girl Madeleine McCann urged the EU yesterday to implement a cross-border alert system for abducted children, similar to one used in the United States.
Kate and Gerry McCann want the bloc's 27 countries to roll out an EU answer to the US's Amber Alert which operates like a severe weather warning, with messages flashed on radio, TV and motorway signs when a child disappears.
- (Reuters)