EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton issued a ringing indictment of critics of Europe’s handling of the ongoing Syrian crisis Tuesday at a debate at the European Parliament plenary session in Strasbourg, as she warned not to “leap to conclusion that unless we engage in military solutions we are inactive”.
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.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) rebukes Iran for defying demands to curb uranium enrichment, failing to clarify concerns on program; US envoy accuses Iran of ''systematically demolishing'' Parchin facility.
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.
Israel on Wednesday denied any connection to an anti-Islamic film which was reportedly produced by a US national with Israeli nationality, which sparked attacks on the US missions in Egypt and Libya.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton spoke of the need for EU member states to work together to address challenging global needs, as she launched a debate on the annual Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) report at the European Parliament plenary session in Strasbourg on Tuesday.
A film at the center of anti-US protests in the Middle East which killed the US ambassador in Libya was made by an Israeli-American who describes Islam as a "cancer," the Wall Street Journal reported.
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.
An Orthodox Israeli rabbi and former cabinet minister on Wednesday condemned as "garbage and slime" a film deemed offensive to Islam that has sparked deadly anti-US protests in Libya and Egypt.
The White House has denied press reports that President Barack Obama has rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s demand to meet with him in New York later this month.
