-US authorities unveiled charges Tuesday against 17 people in a long-running scheme that fraudulently obtained some 42 million dollars from Holocaust compensation funds from Germany.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper suggested that his country recent failure to secure a seat on the UN Security Council can be blamed on the government's support for Israel in the face of growing anti-Israeli sentiment.
A row over the choice of a guest speaker clouded Tuezday Germany's main event to commemorate ‘Kristallnacht’, the anniversary of the beginning of deadly pogroms against Jews across Nazi Germany.
The United Nations should not erase 4,000 years of historic Jewish connection to the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron and Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem just to score a political point, Israeli Prime Minister Binjamin Netanyahu told told the international organization's Secretary General Ban Ki-moon during a meeting on Monday in New York, the Jerusalem Post reported.
European bomb detection experts will meet Friday to examine whether Europe needs to step up air cargo security measures following parcel bomb plots in Greece and Yemen, an official said.
srael suspended its cooperation with the Paris-based United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Wednesday to protest at the organization's description of the tomb of the biblical matriarch Rachel, near Bethlehem in the West Bank, as a mosque.
