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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suspended talks with EU institutions after a decision to label Israeli settlement products.

Almost daily Palestinian stabbings, car rammings and shootings have killed 19 Israelis and one U.S. citizen since Oct. 1.

The previous Coptic pope banned worshipers from traveling to Jerusalem more than three decades ago, despite a 1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.

"This is accreditation to the International Renewable Energy Agency, nothing else. It is in Abu Dhabi, not a mission to Abu Dhabi," an Israeli official noted.

An aide said the Kremlin had received a request from Ankara regarding a possible meeting between the two leaders at a climate conference in Paris.

International powers are preparing to lift sanctions against Iran following a nuclear deal worked out in July, and states across the region are working to update their defenses.

A senior State Department official said the United States will not attempt to continue negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

A surge in street violence since Oct. 1 has challenged Israel's security system and alarmed the United States.

The U.S. secretary of state's three-day tour is expected to encompass stops in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Ramallah, as well as Abu Dhabi.

The suspect was believed to be an illegal worker from Hebron.

Pollard was released from jail after 30 years in prison for giving intelligence to Israel.

Security was boosted in Jewish neighborhoods after a kosher market siege in January, but now anyone can be a target.

Jonathan Pollard, now 61, was convicted of selling American intelligence secrets to Israel in 1987, and given a life sentence.

A U.S. citizen and a Palestinian were among five people killed Thursday by Palestinian assailants, authorities said.

According to a report by Haaretz, the Israeli government is considering taking the European Union to court at the WTO for its decision to label products manufactured in settlements in the West Bank and Golan Heights.

“The problem is not with Islam; it is with extremist people, it is with hateful people," Rabbi Gil Steinlauf said.

“We should remember, we are not to blame for the terrorism directed against us, just as the French are not to blame for the terrorism directed against them," Netanyahu said.

ISIS threatened “to cut the tongue of anyone who publicly used the acronym Daesh," the AP wrote in September 2014.

Some country's in the bombing coalition in Syria are operating on the basis of self-defense, but because ISIS is not an actual state it makes the legal justification less clear.

Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom compared the situation of Palestinians under Israel to the conditions fostering Islamic extremism.

The country began dismantling the centrifuges about two weeks ago; the nuclear agreement requires that Iran disassemble most of its 19,000 centrifuges.