JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli aircraft hit three targets in the Gaza Strip early Friday but there were no reports of injuries, Palestinian security officials and eyewitnesses said.

MOSCOW (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday called US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton amid a dispute over Israeli settlements in east Jerusalem, her spokesman said.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Pentagon on Thursday said it might extend a deadline for bids for a new aerial refueling tanker after Airbus parent EADS signalled it could return to the competition.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The World Bank on Thursday said it was providing India with 1.05 billion dollars to improve education, the development lender's largest investment in education to date.

CHICAGO (AFP) - The United States has agreed not to extradite a Pakistani-American man who admitted to scouting out sites for the deadly 2008 Mumbai siege, prosecutors said Thursday.