Ashton Carter writes of US ''deterrence and containment'' of a nuclear Iran in 2008 Harvard paper; Colleague notes active role in US-Israel partnership.
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday the West had used the Ukraine crisis and the annexation of Crimea as a pretext to slap sanctions against Russia.
France has agreed to pay 60 million dollars in compensation to American Holocaust victims deported by the French rail company SNCF to concentration camps during WWII.
The 2014 Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research has been awarded to Professor Jan Grabowski for his book, 'Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland.'
The leaders of the various political factions in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, agreed that new elections will take place on March 17, 2015, in a meeting with Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein on Wednesday morning.
