The head of a Tunisian Salafist group wanted by the authorities over an attack on the US embassy delivered a sermon Monday in a Tunis mosque that was surrounded by police.
The lawyer for US contractor Alan Gross, jailed in Cuba, rejected claims Thursday by Havana that he is in good health and renewed allegations by the man's relatives that his condition is worsening.
A US hostage held by Al-Qaeda urged his wife in a video to contact American Jewish communities to call on US President Barack Obama to help secure his release, SITE Intelligence Group said Friday.
Four rabbis were ordained Thursday for the first time since the Holocaust in the German city where a court ruling has touched off an emotional debate about religious circumcision.
Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Morsi condemned attacks on American diplomatic missions but he also harshly denounced ''defamation against Islam or any other religion'', in a reference to a US-made anti-Islam film which mocks the prophet Mohammed and sparked violent protests in Cairo, Yemen and Libya where the US ambassador was killed.
The President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso warned of the rise of racism and anti-Semitism due to the economic problems in Europe, in a greeting message to the European Jewry on the occasion of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, which begins Sunday at sundown.
Around 500 mainly Jewish but some Christian and Muslim protesters gathered in Berlin on Sunday to demand the right to circumcision after a disputed court ruling in Germany outlawing the rite.
European Jewish Congress President Moshe Kantor told a gathering of senior European Jewish and Muslim leaders in Paris that to combat increasing hate, violence and extremism all must join together to become part of the solution.
