More than a thousand protesters gathered on Monday in the Tunisian town of Jendouba to condemn the weekend killings of four people by suspected Islamist militants.

As the four victims were buried, new Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa said the state would not be undermined by "terrorism."

Israeli President Shimon Peres on Monday hailed remarks by Mahmoud Abbas on the Palestinian refugee issue, which he said showed the Palestinian president's "seriousness about reaching peace."

"I was happy to hear him," Peres' office quoted him as saying at the start of a meeting with Peruvian President Ollanta Humala.

South Korean tourists wounded in a deadly bus bombing that killed four people near the border with Israel were in hospital Monday in Egypt's Sinai resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

Police said a suicide bomber was probably behind the attack that killed three South Koreans and their Egyptian driver.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Iran is the only beneficiary of nuclear talks with world powers and accused Tehran of "continuing its aggressive behavior."

His remarks came on the eve of fresh talks between Iran and the P5+1 group -- Britain, France, the United States, China and Russia plus Germany -- aimed at reaching a comprehensive accord on Tehran's controversial nuclear program.

Attacks in Iraq, including a series of car bombs in Baghdad, killed at least 22 people Monday, officials said, as the country struggles with its worst violence in six years.

In the deadliest attack, at least one car bomb exploded in the Urr neighborhood of north Baghdad, killing at least eight people and wounding at least 27.

A 14-year-old Indian schoolgirl jumped to her death from the 17th floor of a Dubai tower after her father scolded her for cheating in an exam, local media reported Monday.

A cleaner alerted police after he found the girl's body lying on the ground in the Jumeirah Lake Towers neighborhood, Khaleej Times reported.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Paris Wednesday to discuss peace talks with Israel, U.S. and Palestinian officials said Monday.

The top U.S. diplomat has spent months trying to get the two sides to agree on a framework for resolving their decades-old conflict, but the negotiations have shown little sign of progress, with each side blaming the other.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Abu Dhabi late Monday for talks on Syria and the Middle East hours after criticizing Russia for "enabling" the Assad regime.

Arriving from Jakarta on the sixth day of his latest diplomatic tour, Kerry began a meeting with Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed and Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed. He is expected to join them later for dinner.

More than a thousand protesters gathered on Monday in the Tunisian town of Jendouba to condemn the weekend killings of four people by suspected Islamist militants.

"Tunisia is free, terrorism out," and "Faithful to our martyrs," were among the slogans chanted by the protesters outside the governor's office in the town in northwestern Tunisia, before marching down the main street, Agence France Presse reported.

Syria's army and rebels agreed a truce in the capital's southern suburb of Babbila Monday, the latest in a series of local ceasefires in Damascus flashpoints, Agence France Presse reported.

The truces come more than a year into fierce daily battles in and around several areas of the city that have led to rebels and President Bashar Assad's forces deciding to compromise, with neither side able to claim victory.