Abdel Aziz Duaik, a Hamas official and the speaker of the Palestinian parliament, reportedly arrested by IDF soldiers near Ramallah.

Thai Foreign Ministry says government informed Palestinian delegation and all UN member states that it ‘has given recognition to the state of Palestine.’

Chairman of U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff meets with Israeli officials at IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv; visit comes as U.S. is trying to coordinate steps with Israel in regard to Iran.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the historic ties between the Jewish people and Holland in a speech Wednesday in the 17th-century Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam.

Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon called British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg ''irresponsible and ill-informed'' for condemning Israeli settlements as ''deliberate vandalism'' of efforts to establish a Palestinian state.

The prestigious Lauder Business School (LBS) in Vienna, Europe's Unique Jewish university, opened registration for the next academic year which will start in October 2012.

Historians have cheered news that Adolf Hitler's ''Mein Kampf'' will be reprinted in Germany for the first time since the Nazi dictator's fall in 1945, just as Holocaust survivors hit out at the move.

Hungary's premier Viktor Orban rejected charges of authoritarianism while seeking to head off EU legal action for flouting democracy in a fiery European parliament debate Wednesday.

IAEA chief says he won't soften his report on the Islamic Republic; 'What we know suggests the development of nuclear weapons,' Amano says.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel’s two greatest enemies are The New York Times and Haaretz, the editor of The Jerusalem Post said in a speech.