Warplanes kill at least 28 people day after over 240 killed; United Nations envoy Lakhdar Brahimi arrives in Syria to push cease-fire, supported by Iran, Turkey.
“There’s no common position in the EU Council” on the viability of it supporting the ACAA agreement on European trade with Israel at the European Parliament (EP)’s plenary vote on the issue next week, Cypriot Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis told Thursday a meeting of the parliament’s foreign affairs committee.
An eleventh-hour intervention by Russia saved Israel from UNESCO condemnation at Wedensday’s meeting of the General Executive of the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation in Paris.
British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg joined with 200 students from England Thursday in visiting the grounds of former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, to mark the 100th tour of the camp by outreach organisation the Holocaust Educational Trust.
Government officials question wisdom of UN envoy Prosor's decision to send letter to UN's Ban asking him to stop Swedish ship Estelle, saying it gave ''free publicity'' to small ship: ''One ship does not a flotilla make.''
A 21-year-old Bangladeshi man was arrested on Wednesday in an FBI sting after attempting to blow up a fake car bomb outside the Federal Reserve building in Manhattan.
Ahmadinejad says US influence in world affairs waning due to massive debt and loss of legitimacy, adds West increasingly questioning legitimacy of ''Zionist regime,'' hints EU hurt more by sanctions than Iran.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the European Union on Tuesday for the latest round of sanctions imposed on Iran, but reserved judgment on whether it would halt its nuclear drive.
