FBI investigators were today probing an attack at Los Angeles International Airport during which a lone gunman shot two people dead.

Israeli troops have raided the West bank city of Jenin this morning, clashing with Palestinians.

Yasser Arafat’s agreement to allow the deportation of 13 suspected militants holed up in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity has angered many Arabs who see it as an ideological betrayal of the Palestinians’ long struggle for independence.

Israel's Foreign Ministry has accused the BBC of broadcasting blatantly biased reports about the country's Prime Minister in a bid to discredit the politician.

Palestinians fired a mortar shell at an Israeli settlement in Gaza early today, the third in a day, but there were also the first buds of truce efforts based on the report of an international commission.