Throngs of Israelis attended funerals Wednesday for four people killed in a stabbing and car-ramming rampage by a convicted Islamic State group sympathiser, in one of the country's deadliest attacks in recent years.
Mourners carried the body of 67-year-old stabbing victim Menahem Yehezkel, draped in a blue and white Israeli flag, in southern Israel's Beersheba, where the attack took place a day earlier.
As Morocco withers under its worst drought in 40 years, experts warn that a combination of climate change and bad resource management could trigger severe drinking water shortages.
"The country hasn't seen a situation like this since the start of the 1980s," said water policy expert Abderrahim Hendouf.
While it was usually farmers who bore the brunt of repeated droughts in the North African kingdom, today water supplies to cities are under threat, water minister Nizar Baraka told parliament in mid-March.
The moment Hussein got permission to work in Israel, the Palestinian resident of Gaza City said he was ready to quit university to seek the attractive wages offered for menial Israeli jobs.
"I felt that the doors of heaven were opened for me," said Hussein. Like other Gazans who have abandoned their studies to take low-skilled work inside Israel, embarrassment led him to ask that his full name be withheld.
A man wielding a knife stabbed several people and ran over another in southern Israel on Tuesday, killing four, in one of the deadliest attacks in the country in recent years.
The assailant, who Israeli media have identified as a Bedouin man who previously tried to join the Islamic State group, was shot dead by armed locals following the attack in the southern city of Beersheba, police said.
Egypt hosted the Israeli and UAE leaders for unprecedented three-way talks Tuesday as the Ukraine war rocks energy and food markets and major powers inch toward a revived Iran nuclear deal.
The summit was held in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh between Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and the UAE's de facto ruler, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed.
It comes nearly a month after Russia invaded Ukraine in a move that sparked concerns about security and sent prices of oil, wheat and other key commodities soaring.
With the world focused on Ukraine, UN mediators are trying to avoid a political crisis degenerating into new violence in Libya, where Russia has long been a major player.
The war-battered North African country found itself with two governments earlier this month after the eastern-based House of Representatives appointed ex-interior minister Fathi Bashagha in a challenge to the Tripoli-based premier, Abdulhamid Dbeibah.
Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett held a three-way summit Monday in Egypt with the Egyptian and Emirati leaders against the background of the Iran nuclear talks, Israeli media said.
Bennett's surprise visit to Egypt where he met President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was reported by Israeli media.
Shortly afterwards, the official Emirati news agency WAM said that Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and de facto UAE leader Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan was also in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh for talks with Sisi.
A Lebanese judge Monday charged central bank chief Riad Salameh with "illicit enrichment" and money laundering after he failed to attend a court hearing for the fifth time, a judicial source told AFP.
Judge Ghada Aoun also charged Salameh's brother Raja with "facilitating money laundering" after he was arrested last week over financial misconduct, the source said.
The same charge was filed against Ukrainian national Anna Kosakova, who jointly owns a company with Raja Salameh.
A head-on collision between two passenger trains injured 95 people Monday in the south of the Tunisian capital, emergency services said.
"The injured were taken to hospitals and there were no deaths," civil defence spokesman Moez Triaa told AFP, adding that only one of the trains was carrying passengers.
Most of the injured suffered bruises or fractures, none of them life-threatening, he said.
Many passengers were in shock, he added, saying around 15 ambulances had been dispatched to treat the wounded or take them to hospital.
A British-Iranian charity worker held in Tehran for six years said on Monday that the UK government could have helped free her earlier, and called for all "unjustly detained" prisoners in Iran to be released.
Speaking publicly for the first time since returning home, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe said the UK government knew that Tehran wanted a historic £400-million ($530-million, 480-million euro) debt to be paid for her to be liberated.
