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Israeli general says Palestinians quietly aiding U.S. peace drive

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Palestinian administration in the West Bank has tried to help the latest U.S. peacemaking drive by quietly cutting off funds for grassroots campaigners against Israel's occupation of the territory, a senior Israeli general said on Tuesday. Full story

Hungary indicts Nazi-era suspect for war crimes

Hungarian prosecutors indicted a 98-year-old former police officer Tuesday for abusing Jews and assisting in their deportation to Nazi death camps during World War II. Full story

Israel toughens law against anti-Palestinian vandals

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel approved new measures on Sunday against Jewish ultranationalists who vandalise Palestinian property in a drive to mire security forces in sectarian violence in the occupied West Bank. Full story

Russia sees ends to U.S. row as Jewish texts moved to museum

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that a years-long spat with the United States over thousands of Jewish religious writings should end now that some are on display in Moscow's new Jewish museum. Full story

Israel's PM opens historic exhibit at Auschwitz

Standing in front of a former prisoner block at the infamous Auschwitz death camp, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the world Thursday of not doing enough to stop the Holocaust and said Israel can only rely on itself to prevent such a tragedy from ever happening again. Full story

Long-lost diary of top Hitler aide offers window into Nazi soul

WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - U.S. officials on Thursday unveiled the 400-page diary of Alfred Rosenberg, a top aide to Adolf Hitler, who oversaw the genocide against Jews and others during World War Two. Full story

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Hungarian Csatary, suspected of war crimes against Jews during Word War Two, leaves the prosecution building in Budapest
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File photo of Csatary, who is suspected of war crimes, leaving the prosecution building in Budapest
File photo of Csatary, who is suspected of war crimes, leaving the prosecution building in Budapest

Hungarian Laszlo Csatary, who is suspected of war crimes against Jews during Word War Two, leaves the prosecution building in Budapest in this July 18, 2012 file photo. Hungarian prosecutors on June 18, 2013 charged Csatary, 98, with war crimes committed during World War Two, saying he helped deport

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A Jewish worshipper prays in front of a fire during a ceremony marking the 19th anniversary of the death of Rabbi Shalom Ifergan at his grave-site in the southern town of Netivot June 13, 2013. Organised by Rabbi Shalom Iregan's son, Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Ifergan, the annual memorial ceremony draws h

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