Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has compared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the ‘‘Paris terrorists’’ who carried out the bloody attacks last week in Paris, saying both had committed crimes against humanity.

Muslim leaders call new cartoons an unnecessary provocation and sign of disrespect.

US Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif engaged in ''substantive meetings'' on Wednesday, the State Department said.

Israel’s Ambassador to Britain, Daniel Taub, complained about comments made by a Liberal Democrat MP after Sunday’s solidarity march by world leaders in Paris.

France posthumously presented its highest honor to the four Jews who were killed lst week in the terrorist attack against a kosher supermarket in Paris, Phillipe Barham, Yohan Cohen, Francis-Michel Saada and Yoav Hattab.

''How can you see this individual who carries out state terrorism by massacring 2,500 people in Gaza waving his hand,'' Erdogan said.

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said the decision of the Israeli government to halt the transfer of tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority (PA) ‘’runs counter to Israel's obligations under the Paris Protocol.’’

Obama administration reviewing whether PA moves at UN have tripped legal wires.

Palestinian chief undaunted by failed bid to win a United Nations Security Council resolution mandating an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank.

''It should come as no surprise that there will be implications for this step, but we continue to review,'' a US official told Reuters.