The barracks on view in Washington are half of a wooden building where prisoners slept in cramped, filthy and often freezing conditions as they awaited extermination, often in gas chambers.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has condemned the conferring of a Russian prestigious cultural state award to a Syrian writer who has expressed anti-Semitic beliefs and publicly welcomed the 9/11 terror attacks.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton’s spokesperson said Wednesday she ''is deeply concerned by the approval by the Israeli Civil Administration of new construction in the settlements of Shvut Rachel and Shilo as well as the retrospective approval granted for housing units already built.''
Iran denied involvement in recent attacks on Israeli diplomats and accused Israel of assassinating its nuclear scientists, in a letter to the United Nations Security Council.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his extreme-right election rival Marine Le Pen traded blows on Tuesday over claims that all meat in the Paris region is prepared using Islamic halal methods.
Huffington Post report follows revelation that parents of Holocaust survivor and Jewish rights advocate Simon Wiesenthal were posthumously baptized, along with Mitt Romney's atheist father-in-law Edward Davies.
A German court quashed a British bishop's high-profile conviction for Holocaust denial for procedural reasons but said he may face a new trial on the same allegations.
The president stresses that 'Israel has the right to defend itself against dangers' after Haaretz reported earlier that Peres is due to tell Obama that he objects to an Israeli attack on Iran.
The European Union is expected to announce new sanctions against Syria when EU Foreign Ministers meet next Monday in Brussels as EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton condemned the killing of two journalists in the Syrian city of Homs.
