Their call through social networking websites came after seven protesters were killed late Saturday during mass demonstrations in Lattkiya, 350 kilometers northwest of Damascus, activists said.

Six terrorists failed in their attempt to blow up a pipeline carrying natural gas to Israel and Jordan from Egypt.

Israel's Chief Rabbinate has suspended interfaith dialogue between Jewish and Muslim religious leaders in Israel until terror attacks on Israel are denounced.

Canada's Parliament passed a bill to establish a national Holocaust monument, just hours before the government fell.

The son of a leader of a West Bank Jewish human rights group was sentenced to prison for the kidnapping and assaulting of a Palestinian teen.

The United States is not ready to send troops to Syria, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said.

No casualties were reported but considerable damage was caused to the home; the attack is the latest in a week-long wave of escalation in the conflict with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

Three reportedly killed in Damascus, 20 in Sanamein; Syrian information minister says situation ''completely calm.''

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) condemned a decision by the University of Johannesburg (UJ) in South Africa to sever its ties with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), calling it ''misguided and shortsighted.''

The European Union, whose top leaders met at a two-day summit in Brussels, has adopted further sanctions against Libya under a United Nations Security Council resolution ''to insure that oil and gas revenues do not reach the Kaddafi regime.''