Investigators identify previously unknown complex in northwest of country, bolstering suspicions of nuclear ties between Assad regime and the father of Pakistan's atomic bomb.

The United States, saying it has no choice, will stop paying its dues to UNESCO following the U.N. cultural agency's vote to grant full membership to the Palestinians.

UNESCO's general assembly will vote Monday or Tuesday on whether to grant Palestine full member status, a move that would cut millions of dollars in US funding to the UN cultural agency, UNESCO sources said.

On November 1, Moscow witnessed the opening of a new kosher cafe.

EU foreign policy chief expressed concern on the exchange of fire in the Gaza Strip and condemned the targeting of civilians ''wherever they are.''.

For the first time ever, the community of Mountain Jews of Baku celebrated the holiday of Simchat Torah in their new synagogue.

Envoys renew diplomatic push to counter Tehran's nuclear ambitions in Foreign Ministry lobbying drive that began in mid-September.

Israeli ambassador to the EU, Yosef Hadas-Handelsman said that today the difference between anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli criticism has become blurred, along with intensifying attempts to delegitimize Israel , during an annual EU-Israeli seminar to discuss ways to fight anti-Semitism and xenophobia in Europe.

European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek urged again Monday the ''immediate release'' of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier held captive by Hamas since June 2006 in the Gaza Strip.

Instruction issued under pressure from the right in response to state's decision to demolish several outposts built on private Palestinian land.