France may turn a donors' conference on a future Palestinian state set for June into a political meeting to relaunch the stalled Middle East peace process, Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said Wednesday.

‘Britain is a good friend of Israel and our support for Israel and Israel’s security is something I have described in the past and will do so again as unshakeable.　We are strong friends of Israel,” said British Prime Minister David Cameron when his Israeli counterpart at 10 Downing Street in London on Wednesday.

Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon called on Europeans to ''make it clear to the Palestinians that failure to comply with the Quartet's conditions will be met with sanctions.''

Palestinian journalist tells A-Shams radio that PA President Abbas is insisting that he be the chief representative of the interim unity government, giving him control of foreign policy - a point of contention between Hamas and Fatah.

Dozens of Yemeni Jews rallied in the capital Sanaa in support of embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Tuesday, witnesses said.

British Foreign Minister William Hague on Tuesday criticized the Islamic movement Hamas for mourning Osama bin Laden's death.

One of the world's most wanted Nazi war criminals, Sandor Kepiro, 97, goes on trial in Budapest Thursday charged with the murder of 36 Jews and Serbs in Novi Sad, Serbia in 1942.

In interview with L'Express magazine, French President Sarkozy says if 'peace process is still dead in September, France will face up to its responsibilities on the central question of recognition of a Palestinian state.'

White House spokesman Jay Carney says the al-Qaida leader resisted before he was shot by U.S. troops; White House evaluating possibility of releasing photos of bin Laden's body, but they are concerned that the 'gruesome' pictures could be inflammatory in the Mideast.

Announcement of his elimination coincides with the commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day