Israel has suspended all contacts with the Palestinian Authority in response to a West Bank shooting that killed three Israelis, the Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman said today.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has turned up the pressure on Israel to stop expanding West Bank settlements, it was revealed today.

Police shot and killed a suicide bomber outside the Israeli Embassy in the Uzbekistan capital today, the US Embassy in Tashkent said.

THE press officer of the Israeli Embassy in Dublin has been fired following her public condemnation of an Israeli air attack on Gaza City in a letter to the Irish Examiner.