NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Monday he had seen evidence that had convinced him that Syria was responsible for a chemical weapons attack on August 21.
The leader of the extreme-right Greek Golden Dawn party, Nikolaos Michaloliakos, has made a racist slur against the Greek basketball player of Nigerian descent Giannis Antetokounmpo and described a former US senator as a ''fanatical Jew and Zionist but also a big and active antifascist activist''.
The Mamilla Mall, near the Old City of Jerusalem, was to have been the target of a Hamas terrorist bombing operation planned for the Jewish holiday season beginning this week, Israel’s General Security Service (GSS), announced Sunday.
Pope Francis on Monday wished Jews around the world a sweet and peaceful year 5774, called for increased dialogue among the world’s religious communities and opposed fundamentalism in any faith.
’I want to reassure you that together with the other European institutions and the governments of the EU member states, we will vigorously oppose the forces of anti-Semitism,’’ wrote European Commission President José Manuel Barroso in a letter to European Jewry on the occasion of Rosh Hashanah, the 5774 Jewish New Year that begins this week.
In an exclusive with ''Le Figaro,'' Syrian President Bashar Assad dismisses American and French accusations of using chemical weapons against his own people, and warns France that Syria could be their worst enemy.
Following release of American intelligence report that found the Assad regime responsible for chemical weapons attack in Damascus, Obama says the United States is looking at limited response, still in the planning process.
