Karin Laub

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In this photo taken Wednesday, April 16, 2014, a female member of an Israeli and foreigner's group tour that is organized by IPCRI, an Israeli Palestinian group promoting co-existence, listens to a Palestinian guide while visiting the outskirts of the West Bank city of Ramallah. This bustling center of Palestinian life is just a 20-minute drive from Jerusalem, but for Israelis it might as well be on the other side of the world. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Curious about Palestine, Israeli visitors return

Karin Laub · April 17, 2014 6:54 am

A masked Palestinian uses a slingshot to hurl stones toward Israeli soldiers during a protest calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, outside Ofer, an Israeli military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Friday, April 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Palestinians ready to widen global recognition bid

Karin Laub · April 7, 2014 6:14 pm

Palestinians wave its flags and Fatah's during a rally in support of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Nablus on Wednesday, April 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

New Palestinian recognition bid largely symbolic

Karin Laub · April 2, 2014 4:31 pm

In this March 10, 2014 file photo, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gestures during a meeting of the Fatah revolutionary council in the West Bank city of Ramallah. A long-running personal feud between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and a former powerful operative in his Fatah movement has erupted into the open with public accusations of deceit and corruption. Abbas' hour-long tirade against the exiled Mohammed Dahlan signals the battle is heating up over who will one day succeed the 79-year-old president. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)

Feud erupts between Palestinian leader, arch foe

Karin Laub · March 13, 2014 7:12 pm

Abbas aide: Extension of Mideast talks unlikely

Karin Laub · March 6, 2014 1:05 pm

Israel tightens grip on heart of West Bank

Karin Laub · March 5, 2014 2:08 am

Abeer Abu Ghaith, 29, third from left, the first female high-tech entrepreneur in the West Bank, talks to other Palestinian women in the village of Dura. Abu Ghaith set up an Internet employment brokerage and software development firm and has been relentless in the pursuit of her goals, showing how the Palestinian IT sector could transform the lives of other women by giving them access to jobs and financial independence. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Palestinian women make strides in high-tech

Karin Laub · February 11, 2014 7:19 pm

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Gali Tibbon, Pool)

Netanyahu: Boycott attempts won’t hurt Israel

Karin Laub · February 2, 2014 7:40 pm

Johansson steps down as humanitarian ambassador

Karin Laub · January 30, 2014 8:44 pm

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2013 file photo, actress Scarlett Johansson arrives for the screening of the film 'Her' at the 8th edition of the Rome International Film Festival in Rome. Oxfam International said Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, that American actress Scarlett Johansson's support of an Israeli company operating in a West Bank settlement was incompatible with her role as an Oxfam Global Ambassador. Johansson parts ways with Oxfam because of a dispute over her work for SodaStream, an Israeli company operating in a West Bank settlement that is featuring the Hollywood star in an ad during the Super Bowl. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

Scarlett Johansson, Oxfam part ways over politics

Karin Laub · January 30, 2014 8:25 pm

In this Tuesday, June 11, 2013 photo, an employee works at "Damashki" or "The Guy From Damascus" bakery co-owned by Bassel Shunar, a Palestinian by origin who was born in Syria but who fled the country and arrived in the Gaza Strip two months ago. The civil war in Syria is increasingly hurting Hamas-ruled Gaza financially, according to several officials in the Islamic militant group and in Islamic charities. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Gaza suffers drop in foreign aid over Syrian war

Mohammed Daraghmeh, Karin Laub · June 13, 2013 4:00 am

FILE - This Friday, May 3, 2013, citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, show an anti-Syrian regime protester holding up an Arabic placard reading, "If America does not know who used the chemical weapons, so it could be flying saucers from another planet," during a demonstration, in Sarmada town, in Idlib province, northern Syria. A U.N. report on Syria said Tuesday, June 4, 2013, that there are "reasonable grounds" to believe that limited quantities of toxic chemicals have been used as weapons in at least four attacks in Syria's civil war, but said more evidence is needed to determine the precise chemical agents used or who used them. (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN, File)

France, Britain confirm use of sarin gas in Syria

Karin Laub, Greg Keller · June 4, 2013 4:00 am