Emphasising on Israel's right to "self-defence", US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has asked many world leaders to use their influence to work for an immediate de-escalation of tensions in Gaza.
Liverpool twice squandered the lead, trailed 3-2 and then scored three times in the last 25 minutes to win 5-3 at Young Boys in an enthralling but blunder-prone Europa League tie on Thursday.
Chairman of the moderate, All Parties Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Moulvi Umar Farooq on Friday lambasted the government for 'wooing tourists from Israel'.
'If there is a vulnerable family anywhere in the world, it is the Gandhis,' notes Aakar Patel.
Any potential attacker planning to threaten the Olympic Games that begin next month will find London a "hard target" to penetrate, a former British security minister has said.
62-year-old Israeli writer Susan Nathan is in the eye of the storm ever since her book The Other Side of Israel was published in Kozhikode.
Narendra Modi addressed the Indian diaspora at the Tel Aviv Convention Centre at an event which was also attended by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
A report in a daily said that Pakistan was worried over the visit as it could have serious implications on strategic stability in the region.
The breadth, indicating strength of the market was strong
United States President Barack Obama has said that he would order the US military to destroy Iran's nuclear programme as a final option, if economic sanctions fail to compel Tehran to shelve its nuclear ambitions. "I don't bluff," Obama said while delivering his most explicit threat to Tehran till date, warning that "all options are on the table" and that the final option is the "military component."
We are aggressively building our diamond business. In this respect, from the budget we are looking forward to the Presumptive tax which will help the Indian diamond industry to compete with Antwerp and Tel Aviv as a premier diamond trading hub.
Asking the international community to draw a "red line" against Iran's support to acts of terrorism, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday accused Tehran of jeopardising world peace. "Iran is the biggest exporter of terror in the world. Iran's terror operations are now exposed for all to see," Netanyahu said during a Knesset (Israeli parliament) session, a day after a botched terror attack in Thailand, which Israel believes was meant to target its ambassador.
Agreeing to set the agenda for the next decade, India and Israel on Monday came together to raise a toast to each other with Israeli President Shimon Peres saying that India is the greatest democracy on earth and that Tel Aviv was following New Delhi with "great care and interest".
Air India delays Delhi-Tel Aviv flight, while Air India Express has cancelled flying to Tehran
Anderlecht kept up their 100 percent record in the Europa League with a 2-0 win at Sturm Graz while Udinese struck late to sink Atletico Madrid by the same score in Thursday's top match.
Air Marshal N A K Browne, an ace MiG-21 and Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter pilot, will be the next chief of Indian Air Force.
Several hundred members of the Indian American community in the Washington DC area packed the synagogue at the Julia Bindman Suburban Center in Potomac, Maryland, to pay tribute to the late Ambassador Raminder Singh Jassal at a memorial service in his honour on March 27, organised by the National Council of Asian Indian Associations and the American Jewish Committee.
The Israel Football Association on Monday said national team coach Luis Fernandez could resume his duties after FIFA lifted its ban on him from all soccer activity due to an outstanding debt to a former club.
Former Israel and Liverpool defender Avi Cohen was severely injured in a motorcycle accident in Tel Aviv on Monday, his family and hospital officials said.
Lebanon-based terrorist group Hezbollah has acquired an arsenal of more than 50,000 rockets as well as 50 Fateh missiles capable of reaching Tel Aviv raising fears of a conflict to Israel, which could turn into a full-scale regional war.
Israel has told the US to keep a military strike option open to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons, a suggestion rejected by Washington. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the suggestion reportedly to the US Vice President Joe Biden during talks in New Orleans on Sunday.
The chinks in Inter Milan's armour were exposed again as Tottenham Hotspur beat the holders 3-1 in Champions League Group A and all three teams able to secure last-16 qualification flopped on Tuesday. Like Inter, 2009 winners Barcelona only needed a win to go through with two games to spare but drew 1-1 at FC Copenhagen in Group D while Olympique Lyon's three-match winning streak came to a halt in an enthralling 4-3 defeat at Benfica in Group B.
Manchester United will be getting used to life without Wayne Rooney at home to Bursaspor in the Champions League on Wednesday when holders Inter Milan unleash red-hot Samuel Eto'o on Tottenham Hotspur. Rooney has shocked United by saying he wants to leave but manager Alex Ferguson will not have to make an awkward decision about playing him against the Turkish side after the club said the England striker had gone down with an ankle injury.
Eric Bellucci, who killed his parents and then fled to Israel only to be extradited back to the US, was apprehended on Sunday by the New York Police Department.
Goals from Henrikh Mkhitaryan, who made a mockery of his two-month exile from the starting lineup with a superb individual effort, and Zlatan Ibrahimovic secured an easy win that banished memories of their earlier group stage struggles.
Sevilla, who reached the last 16 of the Champions League last season, were handed a shock playoff defeat by unfashionable Braga on Tuesday while Werder Bremen pulled off a spectacular escape act to oust Sampdoria.
VfB Stuttgart had to come from two goals down against Norwegian outsiders Molde on Thursday to scrape into the final qualifying round of the Europa League.
A US district court has dismissed a petition by Israel's Taro Pharmaceutical Industries to block leading Indian drug maker Sun Pharma from launching an open offer to acquire majority stake in the former.
Injured Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel was named on Monday in Nigeria's preliminary 30-man squad for the World Cup. A knee injury kept the 23-year-old out of the London club's last three games in the title run-in but Nigeria Lars Lagerback is banking on his return to fitness for the tournament in South Africa starting next month.
Noted Indian author Amitav Ghosh has won the prestigious Dan David Prize for his remarkable reworking of the great tradition of the Western novel in transnational terms.
Young men who smoke are likely to have lower IQs than their non-smoking peers, a new study has determined.
Britain expelled a senior Israeli diplomat on Tuesday, amid a diplomatic row with Tel Aviv over the cloning of UK passports to plot the assassination of a top Hamas militant by suspected Mossad agents.
Returning to the elite World Group of Davis Cup after 11 years, an acid test awaits India when they take on formidable Russia in their first round tie in Moscow on Friday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorised Mossad, the country's spy agency, to kill senior Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mahbouh in Dubai, a media report has claimed.
India and Israel have vowed to enhance cooperation in combating the menace of terror, with Tel Aviv terming 'New Delhi's security as important to it as its own.'
The terror strike at the German bakery in Pune's Koregaon Park locality has rekindled concern for the safety of Israelis and Jews in the country, but community members have said that the bombing will not scare them away.
Reiterating that "Iran must not acquire nuclear capability," Mullen after his arrival in Israel on Sunday said that if a regional confrontation were to break out following a strike on Tehran, it 'will be a big, big, big problem for all of us, and I worry a great deal about the unintended consequences of a strike'.
With many countries piling up massive debts in the wake of the global crisis, the International Monetary Fund has cautioned that 'fiscal sustainability' is going to be a big problem for the coming several years.
The 24 sides through from the group phase join the eight third-placed finishers in the Champions League in Monday's draw, including Manchester United and Ajax Amsterdam.
A group of over 50 Jews from India's northeast, who claim to be descendants of an ancient Jewish tribe, arrived in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, marking the beginning of the largest-ever exodus of Jews from the country to Israel.
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