French secret service documents relating to the surveillance of Toulouse killer Mohamed Merah have been declassified and handed over to judges investigating his claimed links to Al-Qaeda.
Residents of Kibbutz Kerem Shalom told to stay in their homes; Palestinians report exchanges of fire between Israel, Palestinians; Gaza sources report at least 11 policemen killed in attack on police station in Sinai near Egypt-Israel border.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) responded to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s allegations of a “horrendous Zionist clan ruling world affairs” with caution Thursday, as it warned of the danger of such statements as “a hallmark of the hate filled and irrational nature of the Iranian regime”.
Slovak justice authorities said Thursday more charges have been filed against the alleged Nazi-era war criminal Laszlo Csatary, detained in neighbouring Hungary.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman travelled to Albania on an official visit, where he opened a new embassy, according to a statement by the Israeli Foreign Minister
A Hamas official has criticised a publicised visit to Auschwitz death camp by a Palestinian Authority (PA) adviser for perpetuating the “big lie” of the Holocaust.
Madonna has provided further controversy on her world tour after inadvertently scheduling her Warsaw concert on the anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, the renowned 1944 revolt by the Polish resistance army to liberate the capital from Nazi occupation.
US Defence Secretary met with the Israeli Premier and his counterpart Ehud Barak on the first day of his visit to Israel Wednesday, as Benjamin Netanyahu warned him “neither sanctions nor diplomacy have yet had any impact on Iran’s nuclear weapons program”.
