The European Union is preparing new restrictive measures against Iran over its nuclear activities, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy told a press conference in Washington on Monday after talks with US President Barack Obama in the framework of the annual EU-US summit.

Thousands of rabbis gather in front of Lubavitch World Headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, for a group picture on the occasion of the annual international conference of Chabad-Lubavitch ''schluchim'' or emissaries.

European Union’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has called for an end to the violence in Egypt between demonstrators and security forces ahead of Monday’s elections.

Semi-official Fars news agency says blast heard distinctly in several parts of the western Iran city; a uranium conversion plant near Isfahan went online in 2004.

John Key, the son of a poor, widowed Jewish immigrant from Austria, won a second term as Prime Minister at elections on Saturday.

FM fervently opposes transferring tax revenues to Palestinian Authority, says money is used to fund housing for terrorists.

PM says Israel considering transfer of money after Palestinians stopped pursuing unilateral moves in international organizations.

Mohamed Hussein Tantawi says security forces never sought to harm Egyptian civilians, claims willing to hold referendum on immediate transfer of power if people demand it.

Party heads say Supreme Council of Armed Forces agree to July 2012 regime change; parties power to be transferred on April 29, probe into the death of 36 protesters in last 4 days.

Albania is ''categorically'' opposed to attempts to secure recognition of a Palestinian state in the United Nations, Albanian Prime Minister Sali Barisha, said in a speech before the Israel Council on Foreign Relations (ICFR) in Jerusalem.