Israeli settlement construction in the occupied West Bank has nearly doubled since last year, the Israeli campaign group Peace Now has said.

TBILISI (Reuters) – Georgia’s parliament approved a resolution on Thursday calling on the government to cut diplomatic ties with Russia after Moscow backed the secession of two Georgian rebel regions.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – U.S. forces arrested the deputy head of a committee that purged Iraq’s government of members of Saddam Hussein’s party, an ally said, but the U.S. military said he was a wanted militia leader behind a deadly Baghdad bombing.