Eastern Europe

Gas company workers were doing maintenance work on a pipeline when they discovered the bones.

Israeli President Rivlin told Ukraine's lawmakers in a special session that his thoughts are "with my friend, Shimon Peres."

The Azerbaijani parliament approved an historic motion on Friday to open an embassy in the State of Israel – the first Muslim Shi’ite majority nation to do so.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Witold Waszczykowski will, visit Yad Vashem on Wednesday.

Dan Propper, a 78-year-old Israeli Czech businessman, was named honorary consul.

The United States has issued a warning to its citizens of an imminent terror threat in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Clearly, this faux pas has allowed us a glimpse into the mind of a modern-day Lithuanian anti-Semitic politician.

The Report includes an extensive discussion about Cyprus, presenting it as a model to be emulated.

Gliński is irate at the exhibition which presents Poland, France and Ukraine as states and nations that collaborated with the Holocaust, while Germany is presented "only as the country that exemplifies the holocaust."

"The challenges we face are quite similar and we need to learn from your experience," said Georgia's Prime Minister.

For the first time since the Holocaust the famous tunnel used by the prisoners of Ponar to escape from the Nazis had been located using new technologies for underground predictive scanning.

A 22-member delegation was sent by the Jewish State to battle the flames, which began last week.

In addition, Moldova closed its airspace Tuesday without giving any immediate explanation, according to Air Moldova.

The pig’s forehead was carved with a swastika.

Showers installed in front of Auschwitz are simply a 'public safety measure' to ward off the summer heat, says the museum.

"The Germans incessantly lied to the Jews they deported for extermination. They told them about resettlement, work and life in a different location."

The airline is a subsidiary of the China-based Hooling Group established in 1988.

“It’s a dramatic step but it embodies a clear message that we are not willing to accept the distortion of history ."

Albania is the only country in Europe that had more Jews after World War II than before the war.

Out of the 26,513 people who have received the honor, 6,706 are Poles, 5,516 are Dutch.

This is the first visit by a sitting Israeli Prime Minister to Hungary since the resumption of diplomatic relations.

Two of the Israeli students involved in the accident were from Rahat, Israel's largest Bedouin city.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is pushing a plan calling on Turkey to stop the flow of refugees and take some of them back — for a price.

For more than two years, the Living Memorial has served as a site for regular talks, lectures, discussions groups, musical performances and commemorations.

Austria's government committee has suggested a "profound architectural redesign" to Hitler's birth house, rather than demolition.

The Czech Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday passed a resolution strongly condemning all manifestations of anti-Semitism, including against the State of Israel, and condemning any call for boycotting the Jewish state.

A Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel called the UNHRC a “cynical, shameless and hypocritical body, probably in need of urgent mental treatment.”

Foreign firefighting heroes who came to help Israeli firefighters battle nearly 2,000 fires are heading home.

President Morales said he made the decision after speaking earlier in the day with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Somehow supporters of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) campaign nevertheless managed to politicize Netanyahu’s visit.