UN secretary-general announces he will attend meeting of Non-Aligned Movement in Tehran, says he will use opportunity to convey to Iranian leadership int'l community's concerns over nuclear program.
Israel’s Chief Rabbi has suggested that doctors train people who carry out circumcisions in Germany, after a Cologne court in June had ruled the procedure illegal as a religious rite carried out on children without their consent.
UN watchdog to meet Iranian officials over concerns about possible military dimensions to Islamic Republic's nuclear program; Western diplomats say they do not expect any breakthrough.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry published a letter on its website Monday by its UN envoy calling on the UN Security Council to condemn Iran’s “outrageous statements, which called for the destruction of Israel and spread vile anti-Semitism”.
The European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said that remarks by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who called Israel a ''cancerous tumour with no place in a future Middle East,” were ''outrageous and hateful''.
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood reignited Israeli fears of a rupture of its peace accord with the Islamist country Tuesday, after newly-appointed Information Minister Salakh Abd al-Maksud claimed Egyptians relations with Israel would not be upgraded “until occupied Palestinian land is freed”.
The White House invigorated the international row over Lebanese Hezbollah’s links to terrorism last week as US Treasury and State Department officials accused the group of working in league with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards to train and advise Syrian government forces.
