An elderly former Dutch resistance worker confessed to murdering a suspected collaborator 65 years ago, only to find out years later her victim was in fact saving Jews from Nazi persecution, authorities said Thursday.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogann has blamed Israel and its supporters for what he says is international media hostility to the country’s Islamic-leaning ruling party.
The seemingly absurd struggles of the Middle East and the revolutions of the Arab Spring mingle on stage as the background to a new play by New York Jews about a love affair between a young Muslim woman and an Israeli secret agent.
The man who typed up Oskar Schindler's list which helped save more than 1,000 Jews from the Nazis, Mietek Pemper, has died in Germany aged 91, the Bavarian city where he lived said Thursday.
Salah al-Bardaweel, a high-ranking Hamas leader in Gaza, refutes press reports that the group may exclude itself from a future government to avoid international isolation.
Russia, China vote against a resolution rebuking Syria for stonewalling an IAEA probe into a desert site bombed in 2007; move coincides with Western condemnations of Syria's crackdown on protests.
The European Union has strongly condemned the burning of a mosque in the West Bank village of Al-Mughayyir, urging the Israeli authorities to bring the perpetrators to justice.
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre commended the Canadian justice system after it allowed Hassan Diab to be extradited to France on grounds of responsability in the October 1980 Paris Copernic Synagogue bombing.
