The Israeli troops divided the gas sector on Sunday on Sunday, reaching the Enclave center from the east border to the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, RIA Novosti reports. The offensive, which began the night before , develops in five directions. The troops operate within the limits or environs of the northern cities of Beit Khan, Beit Lahia and Dzhebalia, in the city of Rafaha, in the Gaza city of the city of Gaza, in the border with Egypt.

The elected US President Barack Obama moves from Chicago to Washington on Sunday in the afternoon, representatives of the staff of the Obama transition administration told reporters. The arrival of the Obama plane at the US Air Force "Andrews" under Washington is expected after 18:30 in time of the east coast of the United States (after 02:30 Moscow time on Monday, January 5).

On January 3, at the 96th year of his life, the oldest Soviet intelligence officer Anatoly Markovich Gurevich, one of the members of the legendary Red Capella, died, Peterburger reports. In the thirties, under the name of Antonio Gonzalez, the Lieutenant of the Republican Fleet, Gurevich fought as a volunteer in Spain. At the same time, he conducted intelligence work. Before the Second World War and during the war, Gurevich worked in Europe under the pseudonym Kent.

Three police officers were injured as a result of an explosion in the city of Khasavyurt, Interfax reported on Sunday in the duty unit of the Khasavyurt GOVD. "The explosion report was received at 11:02. In the village of Sadoviy, an explosive device worked on the path of the patrol uas. One employee received fragmentation wounds, two other patrols controversial. The investigation group works on the spot," the duty officer said.

At least 13 people died during the explosion of a pyrotechnician production plant in east of China, Sinhua agency reports on Sunday. The explosion occurred in the evening on Saturday at one of the pyrotechnics production factories in the city of Wifean of the Province of Shandun. According to the agency, the company acted illegally. At first, three victims were reported, but during rescue work the bodies of another ten people were discovered. The causes of the explosion are not reported.

A week after the start of air strikes on the facilities of the Hamas group, Israeli troops began a ground operation in the Gaza Strip. In the north of the Palestinian autonomy, fierce battles are underway. The operation, according to Newsru Israel , began about 21 hours on January 3. The tank units of the IDF entered the Gaza sector from the north and east and, with the support of combat helicopters, moved to Beit-lachia.

A fire on the territory of the market in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow Region is extinguished. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the press service of the Central Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia. "At present, the fire is eliminated, there are no dead and victims," ​​the agency’s interlocutor said. However, firefighters are still working at the scene of the incident, which are spilled with water for the collapsed structures.

Russia will not refuse to test the Bulava naval ballistic missile, RIA Novosti said on Sunday, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Colonel General Anatoly Nogovitsyn. "The missile will take place. We see where we started and at what stage of development it is now. This is a great contrast," said Nogovitsyn.

With the onset of darkness, the advance of the Israeli troops surrounded on Sunday the city of Gaza was suspended, since the Israelis did not enter the tank columns, fearing anti -tank weapons, which, perhaps, has the Hamas movement, which defends this Palestinian territory, Interfax reports. Both warring parties provide data on the loss of the enemy, which cannot be verified.

The militants of the Taliban radical movement on the night of Sunday were released from the captivity of the journalist of the Abo-speaking television channel Al-Jazeera, stolen on the east of Afghanistan, the Afghan news agency Pazhvak said on Sunday. As previously reported, the Taliban captured Said Abdallah Nazami in the county of Dara-Pich Province Kunar during the preparation of a report.

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan will provide a temporary refuge about 500 homeless people, who on the eve of the New Year defeated the tent town in the center of the Japanese capital. Among them - former temporary employees of companies who are reduced and lost their official housing, Tokyo media reported today. The spontaneous settlement arose on December 31 in the Park of Khibia.

India will convey the US evidence that the November attack of terrorists on Mumbai was planned and prepared in Pakistan, the Indian press writes on Sunday with reference to sources in the government of India. According to the Indian investigation, a group of ten terrorists on November 26 arrived in Mumbai by sea from Pakistani Karachi and arranged a bloody massacre at the lively points of the city, after which the bandits settled in fashionable hotels.

Strong snowfalls, ice on the streets and highways today have become a real disaster for the East German federal land of Saxony. In a number of places of weather, she led to failures in the work of transport, reports ITAR-TASS. The accident occurred on autobahns (high -speed highways) number 4 Dresden - Aizenah, number 13 Dresden -Berlin and number 17 Dresden - Prague. The victims are not reported. Material damage is calculated by hundreds of thousands of euros.

Gazprom sent a letter to the European commission with an offer to ensure independent monitoring of transit volumes through Ukrainian territory, Gazprom, Sergei Kupriyanov, official representative of Gazprom told reporters. According to him, this was done taking into account the fact that observers attracted by Gazprom are not allowed to gas measuring nodes in Ukraine.

Due to several small accident on Sunday, small "traffic jams" in the east of Moscow were formed. According to the correspondent of Interfax , the clash of the Gazelle cargo and the Hundai car, on a bend from the enthusiasts highway, the tram movement was paralyzed to the third transport ring. In addition, due to a petty accident, a cork was formed on the inside of the third transport ring from the enthusiasts highway to Nizhny Novgorod Street.