Western oil industry workers who lost five colleagues in a Saudi Arabian shooting rampage finalised plans today to pack up and leave the kingdom.

ISRAELI troops backed by tanks, attack helicopters and bulldozers raided a Palestinian refugee camp early yesterday.

Israeli troops backed by tanks, attack helicopters and bulldozers raided a Palestinian refugee camp early today, exchanging fire with gunmen that killed at least four people, witnesses said. Two others died in the West Bank.

Four Palestinians were killed today when Israeli tanks, accompanied by attack helicopters, invaded a refugee camp near the Gaza-Egypt border.