Gaza: Thousands of Gaza residents returned to destroyed homes and neighborhoods today, searching for possessions and burying the dead, during a 12-hour humanitarian pause in fighting. Some large areas had been reduced to rubble.   Nearly 1,000 Palestinians have been killed. …

Ukraine: The US says Russia has been firing artillery across the Ukraine border to support pro-Russian rebels and that Russia is moving to ship heavier weapons to the rebels. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said, “We have new evidence that …