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US defends 'enormous' climate efforts at UN talks

DOHA, Qatar (AP) ? The U.S. defended its track record on fighting climate change on Monday at U.N. talks, saying it's making "enormous" efforts to slow global warming and help the poor nations most affected by it.

Other countries have accused Washington of hampering the climate talks ever since the Bush administration abandoned the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 treaty limiting emissions of heat-trapping gases by industrialized countries. As negotiators met for a two-week session in oil and gas-rich Qatar, U.S. delegate Jonathan Pershing suggested America deserves more credit.

"Those who don't follow what the U.S. is doing may not be informed of the scale and extent of the effort, but it's enormous," Pershing said.

He noted that the Obama administration has taken a series of steps, including sharply increasing fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks, and made good on promises of climate financing for poor countries. A climate bill that would have capped emissions stalled in the Senate.

"It doesn't mean enough is being done," Pershing said. "It's clear the global community, and that includes us, has to do more if we are going to succeed at avoiding the damages projected in a warming world."

The two-decade-old U.N. talks have not fulfilled their main purpose: reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that scientists say are warming the planet.

The goal is to keep the global temperature rise under 2 degrees C (3.6 F), compared to pre-industrial times.

Efforts taken so far to rein in emissions, reduce deforestation and promote clean technology are not getting the job done. A recent projection by the World Bank showed temperatures are expected to increase by up to 4 degrees C (7.2 F) by 2100.

Scientists warn that dangerous warming effects could include flooding of coastal cities and island nations, disruptions to agriculture and drinking water, the spread of diseases and the extinction of species.

Attempts to forge a new climate treaty failed in Copenhagen three years ago, but countries agreed last year to try again, giving themselves a deadline of 2015 to adopt a new pact.

Several issues need to be resolved by then, including how to spread the burden of emissions cuts between rich and poor countries. That's unlikely to be decided in the current talks in the Qatari capital of Doha, where negotiators from nearly 200 countries are focusing on extending the Kyoto Protocol, and trying to raise billions of dollars to help developing countries adapt to a shifting climate.

"We owe it to our people, the global citizenry. We owe it to our children to give them a safer future than what they are currently facing," said South African Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, who led last year's talks in Durban, South Africa.

The U.N. process is often criticized, even ridiculed, both by climate activists who say the talks are too slow and by those who challenge the scientific near-consensus that the global temperature rise is at least partly caused by human activity, primarily the burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil.

The concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide has jumped 20 percent since 2000, according to a U.N. report released last week. The report also showed that there is a growing gap between what governments are doing to curb emissions and what needs to be done to protect the world from potentially dangerous levels of warming.

"Climate change is no longer some distant threat for the future, but is with us today," said Greenpeace climate campaigner Martin Kaiser, who was also at the Doha talks. "At the end of a year that has seen the impacts of climate change devastate homes and families around the world, the need for action is obvious and urgent."

Many scientists say that extreme weather events, such as Hurricane Sandy's onslaught on the U.S. East Coast, will become more frequent as the Earth warms, although it is impossible to attribute individual weather events to climate change.

The Kyoto Protocol is seen as the most important climate agreement reached in the U.N. process so far. It expires this year, so negotiators in Doha will try to extend it as a stopgap measure until a wider deal can be reached.

The problem is that only the European Union and a handful of other countries ? that together are responsible for than 15 percent of global emissions ? are willing to set emissions targets for a second commitment period of Kyoto.

The U.S. rejected the Kyoto accord because it didn't impose binding commitments on major developing countries such as India and China, which is now the world's top carbon emitter.

China and other developing countries want to maintain a clear division, saying climate change is mainly a legacy of Western industrialization and that their own emissions must be allowed to grow as their economies expand, lifting millions of people out of poverty.

That discord scuttled attempts to forge a climate deal in Copenhagen in 2009 and risks a recurrence in Doha, as talks begin on a new global deal that is supposed to be adopted in 2015 and implemented in 2020.

Environmentalists found the choice of Qatar as host of the two-week conference ironic. The tiny Persian Gulf emirate owes its wealth to large deposits of gas and oil, and it emits more greenhouse gases per capita than any other nation.

Qatar has not even announced any climate action in the U.N. process, and former Qatari oil minister Abdullah Bin Hamad al-Attiyah didn't do so when he opened the conference Monday.

"We should not concentrate on the per capita (emissions). We should concentrate on the amount from each country," al-Attiyah told reporters. "I think Qatar is the right place to host" the conference, he said.

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AP Environment Writer Michael Casey contributed to this report.

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Twinkies aren't dead yet: Hostess, union agree to mediation

On August 21, 1911, the Mona Lisa disappeared from the Louvre Museum in Paris. More than two years later, Italian-born Vincenzo Peruggia was arrested after attempting to sell Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting to an art dealer. As Time pointed out, Peruggia claimed he stole the artwork for patriotic reasons, but his true motivations remained unclear.

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Calif. unlikely to spur federal emissions cap soon

FILE - This March 9, 2010 file photo shows a tanker truck passing the Chevron oil refinery in Richmond, Calif. On Weds., Nov. 14, 2012, California?s largest greenhouse gas emitters will for the first time begin buying permits in a landmark ?cap-and-trade? system meant to control emissions of heat-trapping gases and spur investment in clean technologies. The program is a key part of California?s 2006 climate-change law, AB32, a suite of regulations that dictate standards for cleaner-burning fuels, more efficient automobiles and increased use of renewable energy. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

FILE - This March 9, 2010 file photo shows a tanker truck passing the Chevron oil refinery in Richmond, Calif. On Weds., Nov. 14, 2012, California?s largest greenhouse gas emitters will for the first time begin buying permits in a landmark ?cap-and-trade? system meant to control emissions of heat-trapping gases and spur investment in clean technologies. The program is a key part of California?s 2006 climate-change law, AB32, a suite of regulations that dictate standards for cleaner-burning fuels, more efficient automobiles and increased use of renewable energy. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

FILE - In this April 30, 2008 file photo, American flags are seen near the Shell refinery, in Martinez, Calif. On Weds., Nov. 14, 2012, California?s largest greenhouse gas emitters will for the first time begin buying permits in a landmark ?cap-and-trade? system meant to control emissions of heat-trapping gases and spur investment in clean technologies. The program is a key part of California?s 2006 climate-change law, AB32, a suite of regulations that dictate standards for cleaner-burning fuels, more efficient automobiles and increased use of renewable energy. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2007 file photo, the sun sets behind an oil refinery on Rosedale Highway, in Bakersfield, Calif. On Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012, California?s largest greenhouse gas emitters will for the first time begin buying permits in a landmark ?cap-and-trade? system meant to control emissions of heat-trapping gases and spur investment in clean technologies. The program is a key part of California?s 2006 climate-change law, AB32, a suite of regulations that dictate standards for cleaner-burning fuels, more efficient automobiles and increased use of renewable energy. (AP Photo/The Bakersfield Californian, Casey Christie) MANDATORY CREDIT, NO MAGS, NO SALES, TV OUT, ONLINE OUT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? California's new system for limiting industrial greenhouse gas emissions by putting a price on carbon is not likely to spur a similar federal program anytime soon, but it might influence other states to follow suit, energy policy experts said.

The state's Air Resources Board on Wednesday began auctioning permits called "allowances" for greenhouse gas emissions, launching the world's second-largest marketplace for carbon emissions.

Under the "cap-and-trade" program, the state sets a limit, or cap, on emissions from individual polluters. Businesses are required to either cut emissions to the cap levels or buy allowances through the auction from other companies for each extra ton of pollution discharged annually.

The results of Wednesday's closed, online auction ? indicating the price companies paid to emit a ton of carbon, and how many companies participated ? would be released Nov. 19, the board said.

Energy policy experts said lawmakers in Washington, D.C., are watching California's experiment closely, but it would likely take six months to a year to know its effects on the economy.

"In the short term, California's carbon market is unlikely to change our paralysis on climate legislation in Washington. But it will carry immediate impact with other jurisdictions looking at carbon markets, whether they be other states or other nations around the globe," said Tim Profeta, director of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University.

"Over the longer term, the success or failure of California to limit emissions in the world's ninth-largest economy will have a great influence on the conventional political wisdom regarding whether a federal climate approach is feasible."

The cap-and-trade plan is a central piece of AB32, California's landmark 2006 global warming regulations.

Only the European Union has implemented a similar plan in terms of scope, and it currently operates the world's largest carbon marketplace. A much less inclusive cap-and-trade scheme covers only electricity producers in the northeastern United States.

If the California program fails, it would be a devastating blow to carbon control efforts nationally, said Severin Borenstein, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and an expert on energy economics.

"Cap-and-trade is still probably the most likely way we eventually could get to a national carbon mitigation program," Borenstein said.

For the first two years of the program, large industrial emitters will receive 90 percent of their allowances for free in a soft start meant to give companies time to reduce emissions through new technologies or other means.

The cap, or number of allowances, will decline over time in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions year-by-year.

If a business cuts emissions below its cap, it could profit by selling its extra allowances at a later auction.

Firms can also generate credits by investing in forestry and other projects that remove carbon from the atmosphere. Those credits can satisfy up to 8 percent of a company's mandated emissions reductions.

Some businesses targeted by the program have argued the increased costs will drive jobs out of California. Executives also argue it could result in increased emissions by businesses in neighboring states that boost production to grab business.

"Raising costs in California will allow out-of-state firms to lower prices and take market share," said Shelly Sullivan of the AB32 Implementation Group, a business coalition that supports greenhouse gas reductions but opposes the auctioning of allowances.

"As it stands now the auction equates to a tax for these businesses to continue to operate in the state," Sullivan said. "Those costs will be passed through to consumers."

The California Chamber of Commerce has filed a lawsuit challenging the air board's authority to sell the allowances to generate revenue for the state. It claims the sale of allowances is an illegal tax because taxes need a two-thirds vote by the Legislature.

The board has said it expects cap-and-trade to withstand legal scrutiny.

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Qatar backing puts Glencore's Xstrata deal on track

LONDON (Reuters) - Commodity trader Glencore's $32 billion takeover of Swiss miner Xstrata looked set to go ahead after winning the backing of Qatar Holdings, the bid target's second-largest shareholder.

Qatar, an unexpected kingmaker in Glencore's bid for Xstrata, said on Thursday it would vote for two key resolutions on the takeover, which is aimed at creating a mining and trading powerhouse.

In a snub to Xstrata management, Qatar said it will abstain from voting on a multimillion-pound management retention plan, which increases the chances of that aspect of the deal being voted down.

"In a nutshell, this means the deal is all but done," Liberum analysts said.

Qatar's support for the deal, first announced in February, came after its surprise opposition to terms in June and brought Glencore within weeks of sealing its long-running pursuit of Xstrata.

Separately, sources told Reuters that Glencore offered to sell Xstrata's German smelter to try to win European Union approval for the takeover, in addition to its existing offer to scrap a key zinc sales deal.

Through a series of votes, Xstrata investors will be able to express their views on the management retention plan without endangering the merger.

Xstrata has said the retention plan was necessary to the success of the merger because it will ensure key managers stay on to oversee the shift into a phase of significant volume growth at the company's mining projects.

"If the management incentive arrangements do not get passed, it raises some question marks about the success of the deal," Macquarie analyst Jeff Largey said.

Several Xstrata shareholders, including Standard Life Investments and Fidelity, have criticized the pay plan, arguing that it is unnecessarily greedy.

"I expect the deal to be approved but there to be considerable dissent about the retention packages," one top 40 investor told Reuters.

Qatar was reluctant to become involved in the debate over management pay, which has been raging in Britain since the so-called shareholder spring. Though Qatar has taken an active role in its investments, it was also reluctant to be branded an as an activist investor.

The tiny, gas rich Gulf state of Qatar has built up a stake of more than 12 percent in Xstrata - a key position in a deal structure that allows only 16.5 percent of Xstrata shareholders to block any bid.

Qatar's abstention on the retention plan, which offers more than 70 top executives a total of roughly 140 million pounds ($222 million), will be an embarrassment for Xstrata, which until last month insisted that the takeover be tied to the pay deal.

Macquarie analyst Largey said that Xstrata's image would not be enhanced by its attempt to be "a little too cute" with its stance on the retention scheme and vote.

INVESTOR PRESSURE

The position of Xstrata Chairman John Bond, set to retain the role at the enlarged group, will look difficult if there is a vote against the retention scheme. Such an outcome could strengthen the view of some shareholders that, having been behind a retention plan that risked sinking the deal, he should not remain at the helm of the merged entity.

The vote, scheduled for November 20, comes after Glencore bowed to investor pressure with a raised bid in September. Glencore increased its offer to 3.05 new shares for every Xstrata share, from an earlier bid of 2.8 per share.

Shares in Xstrata rose 1.7 percent to 963.7p at 1238 GMT on Thursday, moving closer to Glencore's offer, indicating that the market expects the deal to go ahead, while Glencore's shares traded down 0.54 percent.

EU competition regulators will give their verdict on the tie-up two days after the Xstrata shareholder vote.

The regulators have said that Glencore's offer to end an exclusive zinc sales deal and sell its minority stake in world No. 1 producer Nyrstar is not enough, two people familiar with the matter said on Thursday, prompting Glencore to offer to also divest an Xstrata smelter in Germany which produced 148,000 tonnes of zinc last year.

Antoine Colombani, spokesman for competition policy at the European Commission, would not comment on the matter. ($1 = 0.6310 pound)

(Additional reporting by Clara Ferreira Marques, Sinead Cruise and Foo Yun Chee; Editing by Rhys Jones and David Goodman)

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Supercomputer uses Twitter to tell how you're feeling

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Global Twitter Heartbeat isn?t the first project to offer a nifty map illustrating what we're doing in the Twitterverse at a given point in time.

A?Twitter map developed by Vertalab, for example, pinpointed where the??friendliest? and ?rudest? Americans live?by scanning tweets containing the phrases ?"Good morning," and "F--- you." Another color-coded map, noted in an issue of Cartographic Perspectives, analyzed tweets to reveal where in the U.S. Twitter profanity is worst (or best).

This latest heat map, however, offers a real-time analysis of random data?via supercomputer???the SGI UV 2000 Big Brain supercomputer at the University of Illinois???to process an impressive amount of raw information very quickly. ?(You can see how everybody's feeling on Twitter?right now?by going here.)?

According to the description on?Global Twitter Heartbeat project?s Facebook page, it works like this:

The Global Twitter Heartbeat project performs real-time stream processing of ten percent of Twitter?s 400M daily tweets as they are posted. The project analyses every tweet to assign location (not just GPS-tagged tweets, but processing the text of the tweet itself), and tone values and then visualizes the conversation in a heat map infographic that combines and displays tweet location, intensity and tone. With SGI UV, the entire process from data analysis to heat map was produced once per second.

As you can see in this video of real-time Twitter tracking during last week?s election (below), the result is a pretty accurate picture of what?s going on in the United States at any point in time. When you hear the technorati go blah blah blah about ?Big Data,? this is pretty much?what they?re talking about.

In the video above, blue represents pro-Barack Obama tweets, and red is for pro-Mitt Romney tweets. Note how blue blows up big at the time President Obama gives his victory speech.

The Global Heartbeat Project, a partnership between supercomputer supplier SGI Kalev H. Leetaru of the University of Illinois and Dr. Shaowen Wang of the CyberInfrastructure and Geospatial Information (CIGI) Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, also analyzed tweets during superstorm Sandy. Using red for negative tweets and blue for positive tweets regarding Sandy, the map reveals the mood in various areas of the U.S. as Sandy progressed up the East Coast. ?

Of course, these maps aren?t telling us anything we didn?t know???Obama won the election, people were really?freaked out about Sandy. So what?s the point of using what SGI calls ?the world's largest data-mining machine? which could ?ingest the entire contents of the U.S. Library of Congress print collection in less than three seconds? to make videos to show us a bunch of pretty colors?

"This real-time data analysis approach is like having a new telescope in our hands,? project co-founder?Leetaru said in a press statement. ??We are just seeing the Twittersphere in this way for the first time and we're still not entirely sure how to make sense of it all and what it tells us, but it is allowing us for the first time to peer in the messy chaotic world that is the heartbeat of our society."

Which means it'll eventually be used for advertising.?

Helen A.S. Popkin goes blah blah blah abut the Internet. Tell her to get a real job on?Twitter?and/or?Facebook. Also,?Google+.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/supercomputer-uses-twitter-tell-how-youre-feeling-1C7073314

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Quick health care in Hawkesbury draws Quebecers across border ...

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Quebecers frustrated with long wait times at the emergency room are flocking to Ontario to take advantage of speedy, free health care in Hawkesbury.

Crossing the provincial border to get faster treatment is a growing trend in La Belle Province, with more Quebec residents making the journey each year, Le Journal de Montreal reports.

While it often takes as long as nine to 10 hours to get into emergency rooms in Montreal, Quebecers are able to see a doctor in as little as one to three hours at Hawkesbury?s General Hospital.

?It?s extraordinary,? Monique Taillefer told le Journal as she left the Ontario hospital.

?We don?t have to wait! The service is incredible.?

The biggest selling point is that Hawkesbury accepts Quebec health cards, which charges their fees directly to their health plans.

Taillefer?s experience is hardly an isolated case.

Between 2007 and 2011, the number of Quebecers crossing the border to cut down on their wait times has doubled.

But it?s the hospital?s parking lot that tells the true tale.

Nearly every second licence plate hails from Quebec, le Journal reports.

Even Gatineau residents are clueing in to the shorter wait times and driving to Hawkesbury.

?When it goes well at the emergency room, I only wait for an hour,? said Marie-Claude Blais, who travelled from Gatineau on Monday to get treated.

?In Quebec, it always takes eight or nine hours. So it?s really worthwhile.?

It doesn?t hurt that Quebecers migrating to the small bilingual community east of Ottawa are served in perfect French, and all of the hospital?s signage is bilingual.

?We?re better served in French here than at Lakeshore Hospital,? Vaudreuil resident Nadine Gourjade told le Journal. ?That?s really something we don?t quite understand in Quebec.?

But Denise Picard-Stencer, director of clinical care at the Ottawa Hospital, said the same commute doesn?t hold true between Gatineau and Ottawa.

?We haven?t seen an increase in Quebec residents coming to our hospitals, mainly because there are so many services already available in the Gatineau area,? she explained.

Yet for many in Montreal, the service in Ontario is worth coming back for.

?We can?t ask for better,? Monique Gravel told le Journal. Her husband had just gone through surgery in Hawkesbury.

?He was operated on within a few weeks. In Quebec, it would have taken seven months.?

Source: http://www.ottawasun.com/2012/11/13/quick-health-care-in-hawkesbury-draws-quebecers-across-border

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Israeli airstrike kills Hamas military chief in Gaza sparking fears of a new war

  • Ahmed Jabari was travelling in a car in Gaza city when it exploded
  • Jabari was the most senior Hamas official to be killed since an Israeli invasion of Gaza four years ago
  • He has been blamed for a string of bloody attacks, including the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit in 2006
  • Islamic Jihad declares: 'Israel has declared war on Gaza and they will bear the responsibility for the consequences'

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This is the moment a pinpoint Israeli airstrike blew up the one of the top Hamas military commanders in Gaza today.

Ahmed Jabari, the most senior Hamas official to be killed since an Israeli invasion of Gaza four years ago, was travelling in a car in Gaza city when it was struck by a rocket and exploded.

Video of the attack was then posted online by the Israeli Defense Force as it provided live updates of its Operation Pillar of Defense on Terror Targets in Gaza.

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Video released by the IDF shows the moment it targeted Ahmed Jabari, the head of Hamas' military wing, in the Gaza Strip. Here, Mr Jabari's car is driving along a residential road

Video released by the IDF shows the moment it targeted Ahmed Jabari, the head of Hamas' military wing, in the Gaza Strip. Here, Mr Jabari's car is driving along a residential road

As the car carrying Mr Jabari reaches a crossroads the missile is fired and then...

As the car carrying Mr Jabari reaches a crossroads the missile is fired and then...

The pinpoint attack hits, and Mr Jabari's car explodes in a ball of flame

The pinpoint attack hits, and Mr Jabari's car explodes in a ball of flame

Targeted: Hamas operative Ahmed Jabari's car explodes after it was hit by a missile fired by the Israeli Defense Force

Targeted: Hamas operative Ahmed Jabari's car explodes after it was hit by a missile fired by the Israeli Defense Force

The 46-year-old had long topped Israel's most-wanted list and was notorious in Israel, which blamed him for in a string of bloody attacks, including the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit in 2006.

Israel immediately admitted responsibility for the attack and said Jabari had been behind 'all terrorist activities against Israel from Gaza' in the last decade.

'The purpose of this operation was to severely impair the command and control chain of the Hamas leadership,' the Israeli military said in a statement.

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Immediate calls for revenge were broadcast over Hamas radio and smaller groups also warned of retaliation.

'Israel has declared war on Gaza and they will bear the responsibility for the consequences,' Islamic Jihad said.

The killing was a dramatic resumption of Israel's policy of assassinating Palestinian militant leaders and military spokeswoman Lt. Col. Avital Leibovitch said the attack is the 'start of a broader operation' - seen as a clear indication attacks on more Hamas leaders are planned.

Palestinians try to extinguish fire following an Israeli air strike on Gaza City

Palestinians try to extinguish fire following an Israeli air strike on Gaza City

Smoke rises following an Israeli air strike on a house in Gaza City

Smoke rises following an Israeli air strike on a house in Gaza City

Running for cover: Palestinians run out of their houses following the air strikes

Running for cover: Palestinians run out of their houses following the air strikes

Jihad Masharawi weeps while he holds the body of his 11-month-old son Ahmad, at Shifa hospital following a strike on their family house

Jihad Masharawi weeps while he holds the body of his 11-month-old son Ahmad, at Shifa hospital following a strike on their family house

Columns of smoke rise as Israeli airstrikes hit a series of targets across Gaza City

Columns of smoke rise as Israeli airstrikes hit a series of targets across Gaza City

A Palestinian helps a woman evacuate her house

A Palestinian helps a woman evacuate her house

No chance: People look at a wreckage of the car in which was killed Jabari, head of the in Gaza City

No chance: People look at a wreckage of the car in which was killed Jabari, head of the in Gaza City

The body: Israel's Shin Bet security service immediately admitted responsibility for the attack and said Jabari had been behind 'all terrorist activities against Israel from Gaza' in the last decade

The body: Israel's Shin Bet security service immediately admitted responsibility for the attack and said Jabari had been behind 'all terrorist activities against Israel from Gaza' in the last decade

Jabari, who ran the organisation's armed wing, Izz el-Deen Al-Qassam, was blamed by Israel for a recent wave of heavy rocket fire into the country from Gaza.

The Israeli military has already carried out retaliatory air strikes in Gaza and there were three more reported attacks yesterday on other targets in Gaza City, Khan Younis and Rafah.

Since Saturday, four Palestinian civilians and three militants, including Jabari, have been killed in Gaza, and dozens injured. Eight Israelis have also been hurt.

(File picture) An Israeli F-15 fighter bomber, the aircraft that carried out the strikes

(File picture) An Israeli F-15 fighter bomber, the aircraft that carried out the strikes

Israeli military officials said Jabari was identified by 'precise intelligence' gathered over several months.

Gunfire echoed round the streets of Gaza last night as Hamas fighters spoke of revenge and an escalation of attacks into Israel which could trigger another war in the region, drawing in Hezbollah and Lebanon, already a frontier of the conflict in Syria.

The killings come amid warnings Israel may try to topple President Mahmoud Abbas if he carries out a plan to ask the United Nations this month to upgrade the status of the Palestinian Authority, an official said yesterday.

'Part of a broader operation': The killing was a dramatic resumption of Israel's policy of assassinating Palestinian militant leaders

'Part of a broader operation': The killing was a dramatic resumption of Israel's policy of assassinating Palestinian militant leaders

Surveillance: Israeli military officials said Jabari was identified by 'precise intelligence' gathered over several months

Surveillance: Israeli military officials said Jabari was identified by 'precise intelligence' gathered over several months

Fears of war: Immediate calls for revenge were broadcast over Hamas radio and smaller groups also warned of retaliation against Israel

Fears of war: Immediate calls for revenge were broadcast over Hamas radio and smaller groups also warned of retaliation against Israel

The upgrade would give the Palestinians a place in the world body similar to that of the Vatican - short of full membership as a sovereign state but as close as they can get without the full recognition that Israel says can only come from a peace treaty.

Ransomed soldier: Jabari has been blamed in particular for the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit in 2006. He was returned home after five years in captivity in exchange for hundreds of Hamas prisoners

Ransomed soldier: Jabari has been blamed in particular for the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit in 2006. He was returned home after five years in captivity in exchange for hundreds of Hamas prisoners

A draft document from the office of Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, said Israel must confront this challenge by means that could include 'toppling (Abbas) and dismantling the Palestinian Authority'.

Newspaper reports say Israel instructed its ambassadors to warn it may revoke all or part of the 1993 Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation, which set up the Palestinian Authority under an interim peace agreement.

The Palestinians are currently an observer 'entity' at the United Nations. An upgrade could grant them access to bodies such as the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where they might file legal suits against Israel.

Targeted killings are controversial but advocates say they are an effective deterrent without the complications associated with a ground operation, chiefly civilian and Israeli troop casualties. Proponents argue they also prevent future attacks by removing their masterminds.

Critics say they invite retaliation by militants and encourage them to try to assassinate Israeli leaders. They complain that the strikes amount to extrajudicial killings.

During a wave of suicide bombings against Israel a decade ago, the country employed the tactic to eliminate the upper echelon of Hamas leadership.

Israeli aircraft have previously assassinated the previous commander of Hamas' military wing, Salah Shehadeh, the movement's spiritual leader, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, his successor, Abdel Aziz Rantisi, and dozens of other senior Hamas military commanders.

Top level: Jabari, right, meets with Palestinian leader of Hamas Khaled Mashaal. The 46-year-old had long topped Israel's most-wanted list and was notorious in Israel, which blamed him for in a string of bloody attacks

Top level: Jabari, right, meets with Palestinian leader of Hamas Khaled Mashaal. The 46-year-old had long topped Israel's most-wanted list and was notorious in Israel, which blamed him for in a string of bloody attacks

Hamas has governed Gaza since 2007 and does not recognise Israel's right to exist. It has been emboldened by the rise to power in neighbouring Egypt of its spiritual mentors in the Muslim Brotherhood whom it views as a 'safety net'.

Israel last staged a full-scale attack on Gaza during a three week conflict in 2008 and 2009 in which 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed.

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Eccentric tech wizard wanted for questioning in Belize slay

John McAfee, the tech wizard who developed the McAfee anti-virus software in the 1980s and helped pioneer instant messaging in the 1990s, is wanted for questioning by Belize Police in connection with the murder of a neighbor and fellow American expatriate.

Police say 52-year-old Gregory Faull was found dead in his tropical island hacienda on Sunday -- discovered lying face down in a pool of blood by his housekeeper. Police say he was shot in the back of the head. Gang Suppression Unit commander Marco Vidal told ABC News that McAfee was one of several individuals wanted for questioning. Belize Police spokesman Raphael Martinez also said that McAfee is one of several "persons of interest" in the inquiry.

But McAfee told Wired magazine he was innocent, and that he watched police search his property from a hole he'd buried in the sand ? covering himself with a cardboard box. "It was extremely uncomfortable," he told Wired, adding, 'You can say I'm paranoid about it but they will kill me, there is no question. They've been trying to get me for months."

He said Belizean authorities had targeted him, but killed the wrong American. Authorities in Belize denied any wrongdoing, telling ABC News they are just trying to investigate the murder and McAfee's possible connection.

McAfee and Faull lived in adjacent lots on the Belizean jungle island of Ambergris Caye and had traded barbs and nearly blows over McAfee's nine dogs. Faull's father, Arthur Faull, told ABC News his son had demanded that McAfee quiet them down. McAfee allegedly threatened Faull that the next time he set foot on his property he'd shoot him. Faull promptly filed a complaint. He was shot a few days later.

McAfee's life began unraveling in 2008, when he lost most of his estimated $100 million fortune in the combined collapse of the stock market and real estate market. He auctioned off everything he owned in an open auction filmed by ABC News Nightline.

WATCH the 'Nightline' report on McAfee.

He then moved to Belize, where he established a company that sought to transform jungle plants into modern medicine. That company began to fall apart in 2010, after an investor fled the country.

The combative McAfee kept running afoul of police. In May, said Vidal, his teams raided McAfee's home and lab, finding an unknown substance thought to be narcotics, which McAfee insisted was a natural antibiotic. He was not charged with a crime.

According to freelance writer Jeff Wise, who profiled McAfee's decline on the website Gizmodo.com, McAfee had become deeply enmeshed in the world of gangs, narcotics and arms. Wise told ABC News McAfee had become something of a prophet of "bath salts," crowing about the "super perv powder" and the drug's erotic effects on various hardcore drug message boards.

Bath salts, synthetic drugs that can mimic the effects of cocaine, have been linked to numerous bizarre and violent incidents in the U.S.

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