Malia Bouattia, National Union of Student's first black Muslim woman president, was elected on the same day the Union argued against an amendment for campuses to commemorate the Holocaust.
Romanian watchdog group on anti-Semitism said it was worried by the mayoral candidacy of Marian Munteanu who said local Jews lied for money about the number of brethren killed in Holocaust.
Twenty-one people were wounded, including two seriously, when an explosive device blew up aboard a bus in Jerusalem on Monday afternoon, causing it to catch on fire while it was driving, in what the defense establishment suspects to be a terror bombing.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed a resolution adopted by UNESO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, in which Jewish ties to the Temple Mount and the Western Wall area in Jerusalem’s Old City are totally ignored.
An international conference to tackle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the best way to bring peace, French President Francois Hollande declared after meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Paris.
Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada or parliament Thursday confirmed the appointment of Volodymyr Groysman as new Prime Minister in a bid to end months of political gridlock and unlock vital aid to the war torn-state.