The Austrian town of Braunau announced Friday it was annulling honorary titles granted to native son Adolf Hitler, following a scandal in the country over surviving honours from the Nazi era.
Israel was preparing to expel 124 mostly European activists who had managed to arrive on flights to the country as part of a pro-Palestinian protest, an official said on Saturday.
The Obama administration, joined by U.S. Jewish groups, called for the United Nations to dismiss Richard Falk, its rapporteur on Palestinian rights, after he posted an anti-Semitic cartoon on his blog.
''We reaffirmed our country's position that a negotiated solution between the parties, with no unilateral solution, is the only way to ensure real and solid grounds for a lasting peace,'' said Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc after a meeting Wednesday in Bucharest with his visiting Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu.
UN Watch, a Geneva-based human rights monitoring organization, has called on United Nations rights chief Navi Pillay to fire the UN Human Rights Council’s Palestine expert who admitted that he published a ''strongly anti-Semitic'' cartoon.
A lone French yacht carrying activists hoping to run the Israeli blockade on Gaza was on Thursday blocked in Crete by the Greek coast guard when it stopped to refuel, an organiser said.
Taiwan's defence ministry on Thursday apologized to Israel over an incident in which three students were photographed wearing Nazi uniforms at a military-organised summer camp.
