A 66-year-old Italian was held at Poland's Krakow airport after being found with barbed wire from the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz where his father had been a prisoner, police said Sunday.
Israel has welcomed Egypt's military efforts to stamp out Islamists in the Sinai Peninsula after Sunday's border attack that killed 16 Egyptian soldiers.
A Swiss hospital announced Friday that it has lifted a moratorium on religiously-motivated circumcisions imposed in July in the wake of a court ruling in neighbouring Germany.
A German radio presenter has been fired after saying ''Work Sets You Free'', a slogan used at some Nazi concentration camps and a symbol of atrocities committed by the Nazi regime, to listeners who had to work at the weekend, a Berlin newspaper said Thursday.
French security services had watched Toulouse shooter Mohamed Merah since the end of 2009 and judged his behaviour ''worrying'' in late 2011, according to declassified documents seen by AFP.
Talk of a possible military strike on Iran's nuclear Facilities dominated the Israeli press on Friday, as Defence Minister Ehud Barak said that a recently disseminated US intelligence report is closer than ever to Israel’s own intelligence estimates on Iran.
Prime Minister Netanyahu urges UN's Ban Ki-moon not to attend Non-Aligned Movement parley in Tehran, says such a visit would be a ''horrible mistake'' despite good intentions.
Approval necessary due to limits on weaponry in area dictated by Camp David accords; request to allow helicopters came from Barak; Egypt continues offensive against terrorists.
