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The IAEA says it has credible intelligence Iran has sought nuclear weapons technology - and that those efforts may be ongoing.

The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, described the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, as a “liar” in a private exchange with Barack Obama at last week’s G20 summit in Cannes that was inadvertently broadcast to journalists.

Slovak Foreign Affairs Minister Mikulas Dzurinda sent a condolence letter to his Israeli counterpart Avigdor Lieberman on Thursday.

Events will be held at London's Liverpool Street Station during the period 21 May - 21 June to commemorate the kinderstransport operation in 1939, which involved the rescue of 669 mostly Jewish children from the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia.

Back in February, the world raised an eyebrow as Egyptian Jamal Ibrahim named his newborn daughter “Facebook”, as a tribute to the role Facebook played in the revolution in Egypt.

Berlin and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany have agreed Germany will increase funding allotted to Holocaust survivors by almost $50 million in the next three years

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu started on Thursday his official visit to the Czech Republic, the first of its kind paid by an Israeli prime minister since 1948, in a move to promote bilateral relations.

Owners of an Austrian pastry shop that showcases cakes decorated with Nazi themes should be prosecuted, a Holocaust awareness group urged.

A statue by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin was stolen from the Israel Museum during renovations.

Arnost Lustig, an author who escaped from a Nazi death transport to make the Holocaust the main theme of his fiction died early Saturday. He was 84. Jana Jelinkova, spokeswoman for Prague's Kralovske Vinohrady university clinic, confirmed the death. Lustig had been battling cancer for five years.