* Hamas: Int’l force in Gaza Strip will be met with ‘shells and rockets’ The armed wing of Hamas rejected Palestinian Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s call for the deployment of international troops in the Gaza Strip.

* Pope to revive ‘anti-Semitic’ Mass The Vatican is expected to publish this week a document authorizing the use of a controversial Latin Mass.

* Any Kennebunkport in a storm The menu has been decided, security and secret service agents are in town and small Russian flags are already on sale. Vladimir Putin is about to get what has become known as the Kennebunkport treatment.

* Sarkozy promises Abbas $20 million Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas appealed for an international force for Gaza so the divided Palestinians can hold new elections.

* U.S., allies to Iran: No new sanctions if enrichment stops The United States and fellow permanent U.N. Security Council members have told Iran they will hold off on new sanctions if it stops expanding its uranium enrichment.

* Syrian paper: Blair can’t be peace envoy A state-run Syrian newspaper on Saturday lambasted Tony’s Blair’s appointment as a special Middle East envoy.

* EU ‘faces backlash from Turkey’ The European Union is risking an Islamic backlash in Turkey, according to the EU’s enlargement commissioner, Olli Rehn.

* Haniyeh tours Arafat’s house in Gaza The deposed Hamas PA prime minister toured the house of former Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat on Saturday.

* Car bombs come to London Police were last night hunting a suspected al-Qaida-inspired terrorist cell after the discovery of two “Iraqi style” car bombs.

* Gilad: Syria producing more missiles Syria is producing more missiles and preparing its army for possible armed conflict in other ways.