Tag: bank
Israel approves controversial E1 settlement plans in West Bank
ReutersIsrael has given final approval for a controversial settlement project that would effectively cut off the occupied West Bank from East Jerusalem and...
BBC witnesses West Bank attack by masked Israeli settlers
The BBC's Lucy Williamson was reporting on allegations Israeli settlers had destroyed a Palestinian man's olive groves when she witnessed masked settlers launch...
BBC witnesses settlers attack on Palestinian farm in West Bank
Lucy WilliamsonBBC News, Turmus Aya, in the occupied West BankTensions between local residents and settlers are complicated by the increasingly heavy control of...
Israeli settlers intensify campaign to drive out West Bank Palestinians
Jeremy BowenInternational editor, reporting from the occupied West BankOren Rosenfeld/BBCMeir Simcha agreed to talk, but he wanted to do it somewhere special, because...
US ambassador calls on Israel to ‘aggressively investigate’ West Bank killing
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee says he has asked Israeli authorities to "aggressively investigate" the killing of a Palestinian-American in the occupied...
Two Palestinians killed in West Bank settler attack, health ministry says
AFPTwo Palestinians have been killed in an attack by Israeli settlers on a town in the north of the occupied West Bank, according...
Trump calls for US central bank head to quit immediately
US President Donald Trump has called for the chair of the Federal Reserve to quit "immediately", in an escalation of his attacks on...
World Bank Ends Its Ban on Funding Nuclear Power Projects
The world’s largest and most influential development bank said on Wednesday it would lift its longstanding ban on funding nuclear power projects.The decision...
How India’s ‘biggest art deal’ buried masterpieces in a bank vault
Cherylann MollanBBC News, MumbaiPundole Art GalleryOne painting shows an unlikely group chatting on a bench, symbolising Husain's call for peaceful dialogue and coexistence...
World Bank U-turn ends loan ban to Uganda over gay rights
The World Bank says it is lifting a ban on loans to Uganda that it had put in place two years ago when...
