International Glance
Israel's policies in West Bank areas under its control prevent the Palestinian economy from flourishing, a World Bank report says.
The report published Tuesday examines the economic benefits of lifting Israeli imposed restrictions on access and movement in Area C, defined by the Oslo Accords as an area under full Israeli control, constituting 61 percent of West Bank territory.
World Bank: Israel hampers Palestinian economy
Binyamin Netanyahu takes hard line: occupation is not cause of conflict
The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has said there will never be peace with the Palestinians until they recognise Israel as a Jewish state, and has dismissed Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land and the growth of Israeli settlements as the root cause of the conflict.
In an uncompromising speech, Netanyahu insisted the Palestinians must abandon their core demand of the right of refugees to return to their places of origin. "Unless the Palestinians recognise the Jewish state and give up on the right of return there will not be peace," the prime minister said in an address at Bar-Ilan University on Sunday.
Egyptian officials: Massive explosion hits security headquarters in southern Sinai town
Video shows the aftermath of a massive explosion that hit the security headquarters in an Egyptian town near tourist resorts in southern Sinai, killing at least two people and wounding dozens.
The four-storey security headquarters in the town of el-Tor was seriously damaged, and officials said the blast was likely to have been caused by a car bomb detonated by remote control.
Russia to monitor 'all communications' at Winter Olympics in Sochi
Athletes and spectators attending the Winter Olympics in Sochi in February will face some of the most invasive and systematic spying and surveillance in the history of the Games, documents shared with the Guardian show.
Russia's powerful FSB security service plans to ensure that no communication by competitors or spectators goes unmonitored during the event, according to a dossier compiled by a team of Russian investigative journalists looking into preparations for the 2014 Games.
Libya demands answers after US raid captures prominent Al Qaeda militant
The Libyan government is demanding an explanation from Washington after the capture and abduction of a long-sought Al Qaeda leader by US special forces in Tripoli.
Abu Anas al-Libi has been on the run for 15 years and has already been indicted in a US court for the bombings of two US embassies, in Kenya and Tanzania.
The bombings left more than 200 people dead.
Suicide bomb attacks on Iraqi school, Shi'ite pilgrims, kill 29
Suicide car bombers attacked an elementary school and a police station in a small northern Iraqi village on Sunday while another on foot detonated his payload among Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad, killing at least 27 people including children, officials said.
The attacks are the latest in a relentless wave of killing that has made for Iraq's deadliest outburst of violence since 2008. The mounting death tolls are raising fears that the country is falling back into the spiral of violence that brought it to the edge of civil war in the years after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
String of attacks in Iraq kills at least 66
A suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of Shiite pilgrims passing through a mainly Sunni neighborhood in Baghdad and another detonated his explosives inside a cafe north of the capital, the deadliest of several attacks across Iraq on Saturday that killed at least 66 people.
The killings, which also included attacks on journalists and anti-extremist Sunni fighters, are part of the deadliest surge in violence to hit Iraq in five years. The accelerating bloodshed is raising fears that the country is falling back into the spiral of violence that brought it to the edge of civil war in the years after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
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