A Selection of News Stories (05/01/2009).

Envoys race to halt Gaza violence (BBC News) - [text online]

Anti-apartheid icon Suzman buried (BBC News) - [text online]

Israel rains fire on Gaza with phosphorus shells (The Times) - [text online]

Gaza sliced in two by Israel's land assault (The Independent) - [text online]

With the troops: 'This is a war that we have to fight' (The Independent) - [text online]

Rod Liddle: 'I've never had a go at Muslims, only Islam' (The Independent) - [text online]

Bruce Anderson: Israel is in danger of fighting the last war, not the next one (The Independent) - [text online]

Leading article: Gaza will not find peace until Hamas ceases to be a threat (The Independent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation Report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip 04 Jan 2009 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation Report from the Humanitarian Coordinator 04 Jan 2009 as of 17:00 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Displaced Populations Report Jul - Dec 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

OPT: Ground incursion compounds humanitarian crisis in Gaza Strip (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: Cholera death toll tops 1600, number of cases continues to mount - WHO (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

OPT: WFP launches emergency food distributions to families affected by conflict in Gaza (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Iraq: 95 percent of families want free food programme to continue, finds survey (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

DR Congo: UN to assess needs of survivors of LRA attack (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Somalia: No power vacuum after pull out, Ethiopia pledges (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

1.8m foreigners move to capital as Britons leave (The Guardian) - [text online]

White working class feels ignored over immigration, says Hazel Blears (The Guardian) - [text online]

Weaving themselves back into the Afghan social fabric (UNHCR) - [text online]

Gaza: chaos as conflict intensifies (ICRC) - [text online]

Gaza: as the conflict intensifies, the ICRC urges all parties to respect civilians (ICRC) - [text online]

Early success for new points system (Home Office Press Release) - [text online]

First ID cards issued to foreign nationals in Sheffield (Home Office Press Release) - [text online]

Government ratifies European convention against human trafficking (Home Office Press Release) - [text online]

Work restrictions will continue for Bulgarians and Romanians (Home Office Press Release) - [text online]

A record 5,000 foreign lawbreakers removed from UK (Home Office Press Release) - [text online]

AFGHANISTAN: Little to eat for IDPs in makeshift Kabul camp (IRIN News) - [text online]

YEMEN: Jews in north increasingly being harassed (IRIN News) - [text online]

Returning refugees to Afghanistan struggle to earn a living wage, say UN agency (UN News) - [text online]

DR Congo: UN calls on rebels to resume talks with Government (UN News) - [text online]

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