UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Thursday reprimanded Iran for ''outrageous'' comments denying the Holocaust and Israel's right to exist, and called on the two countries to drop threats against each other. .
A French court has opened a murder inquiry into the 2004 death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, following claims by his widow Suha and a TV investigation that he may have been poisoned, Agence France Press reported.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has invited Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi to visit Israel, saying the was encouraged by the president’s recent comments on the peace treaty between the two countries.
Families of the victims of last month's bomb attack on an Israeli bus that killed six at Bulgaria's Burgas airport gathered Tuesday at Sofia's synagogue to remember the victims.
Task force to streamline IAEA's work; upcoming nuclear report to confirm 350 new centrifuges in Fordow underground facility, AFP reports; West urges Arabs not to target Israel's nukes.