Global News Archives

June 2007

29

Katsav resigns presidency after plea bargain deal	Chávez says that Venezuela could become nuclear power	Jewish cemetery in Ottawa desecrated for the third time

28

Germany agrees to pension increase for Shoah victims	Hugo Chávez seeking weapons in Russia, Iran and Belarus	Egyptian Jews want recognition of suffering, property restitution

27

Tony Blair to become new Middle East peace envoy	Nationalized Egyptian hotel returned to Jewish owners	Groundbreaking ceremony for Warsaw’s new Jewish museum

19

Italian Jews picket office in Rome as convicted Nazi begins work	New Hampshire man sentenced to six years for anti-Semitic letters	Author who claims Jews exploit anti-Semitism rejected by US University

15

Former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim dies at 88	French banking patron Guy de Rothschild passes away	Another World War II mass grave found in Ukraine

14

Russian banker plans to launch global Jewish television channel	Head of Columbia University condemns British boycott plans	Italians upset about day-time release of Nazi war criminal

13

Shimon Peres elected as new president of the State of Israel	Rabbis curse anyone taking part in Jerusalem gay pride parade	Former Indonesian president slams Ahmadinejad’s Shoah denial

12

German forced labor compensation fund fulfills mandate	Shoah survivor appeals for tolerance in Muslim Indonesia	Iranian economists issue warning to Ahmadinejad over inflation

08

Conference on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe held in Luxembourg	Jews and Muslims call for dialogue at Protestant church event	Paintings Looted by Nazis discovered in Swiss bank safe

07

WW II mass grave of massacred Jews discovered in Ukraine	Senior Vatican official defends controversial wartime Pope	Olmert says ‘Israel has no intention of going to war with Syria’

06

Polish Jewish girl’s ghetto diary handed over to Yad Vashem	Kiev mayor cracks down on kiosks selling anti-Semitic literature	German Jewish leader unhappy about Israeli push for aliyah

04

Iranian President announces “Countdown for the destruction of Israel”	Investigator concludes that Geneva synagogue fire was arson	Norway provides money for salaries to Palestinian government

01

Man accused of Seattle Jewish center shooting pleads insanity	Swiss FM proposed conference on ‘different perceptions’ of Holocaust	G8 Ministers criticize Iran on Holocaust and nuclear program