Relatives and Palestinian officials said 20-year-old Sayfollah Musallet, a U.S. citizen from Florida, was beaten to death by Israeli settlers last week.

In a statement, Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee called for Israel to investigate Musallet's death, which he described as a "criminal and terroristic act."

There has been an increase in killings of and attacks against Palestinians by settlers and security forces in the occupied West Bank in recent weeks, the United Nations human rights office said on Tuesday.

Thousands of residents near Gretna lost power Thursday morning as a tropical disturbance in the Gulf began dumped rain across south Louisiana.

Top church leaders in the Holy Land have condemned intensifying Israeli settler violence on the only entirely Christian Palestinian village remaining in the occupied West Bank.

Growth in the 15 member states that make up the Economic Community of West African States, or ECOWAS, is likely to inch down to 5.0% this year from 5.1% last year, the bloc's regional development bank said on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Israel and Hamas appeared no closer to a breakthrough in talks meant to pause the 21-month war and free some Israeli hostages.

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