Britain, France, US believe UN report leaves ''no doubt'' that Assad regime used chemical weapons; Russian UN envoy tells counterparts not to ''jump to any conclusions''; Ban: Worst chemical attack since Iraq in 1988.
Israei Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the US-Russia understandings to remove Syria’s chemical weapons ‘’will bear fruit and that they be judged by their results, the full destruction of all chemical weapons stores held by the Syrian regime, weapons it has used against its own civilians.’’
Thomas Bach, the new German elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), will resign Monday from all his other positions, news reports said.
The conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) party, Chancellor Angela Merkel's Chistian Democrats allies, swept to victory in a regional election in Bavaria on Sunday, only one week before national elections in Germany.
In unanimous verdict, nine-judge panel overturns government policy, gives state 90 days to free more than 2,000 migrants being held in Negev detention center.
The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton welcomed a Russian-US agreement to destroy Syria's chemical weapons stockpiles and offered the bloc's help with implementing the agreement.
The German publisher of InTouch and numerous other magazines said Friday that it would stop publishing a pulp magazine criticized by an American Jewish group for heroic portrayals of German war criminals in World War II.
In the Jewish tradition, Yom Kippur is the most important of holidays. It ends the ten days of atonement during which the fate of a person is decided for the coming year. Yom Kippur is the day when one asks forgiveness for every mistake made during the previous year.
European Union and Israeli high level delegations met Thursday in Brussels to continue negotiations on Israel’s participation in the EU’s flagship Horizon 2020 programme, a 80 billion euro research and innovation project aimed at securing Europe's global competitiveness as part of the drive to create new growth and jobs.
Pope Francis has praised Jews for keeping their faith despite the Holocaust and other “terrible trials” throughout history, and reaffirmed Judaism as the “holy root” of Christianity.