As tensions mount in Israel between Israelis and Palestinians, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is calling the Zionist state evil.
The Russia has vetoed four U.N. Security Council resolutions on Syria in four years.
India, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has stepped up its defense purchases -- from Rafale jets to Apache choppers.
Some say the new names are part of "ongoing attempts to judaize Al-Quds and falsify history" that only add tension to relations between the two groups.
"What's important is Putin's commitment not to get mixed up in arming Hezbollah, which should help Israel," an Israeli official says.
The plan has come under criticism by those who say the laborers will be susceptible to exploitation. About 3,700 Chinese laborers are already in the country, but China and Israel do not have a bilateral labor agreement.
The vote would mark the first time the U.S. has refrained from opposing an official U.N. condemnation of its 54-year-old embargo on Cuba.
Israel is concerned about the risk of Russian weapons reaching militants on its borders.
No person or group has claimed responsibility for the blast, though unrest has been growing in the nation throughout the summer.
The cross-border violence comes at a time of heightened tensions amid clashes over Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque.
Israel has called up border police reservists amid some of the worst violence Jerusalem has seen in years, which has spread to the West Bank.
The congressional review period for the Iran deal ends Thursday.
She wrote: "How many f---ing Jews do these people think there are in the United States?"
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina moved up to the main event debate on Wednesday night and was a consensus winner.
"The humanitarian impact and damage [from the embargo] is extreme and cannot be measured [only] in numbers," Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said Wednesday.
The congressional review period for the Iran nuclear deal is scheduled to end Thursday.
Protesters threw stones at police, who entered the compound in large numbers and lobbed stun grenades in response, reports said.
The warning came after a second day of clashes at the Al-Aqsa mosque in annexed East Jerusalem.
“We have to stop illegal immigration,” the Republican front-runner told more than 20,000 Texans Monday night.
Israeli security forces and mosque officials accused each other of instigating the clashes at the site, which is considered holy by both Muslims and Jews.
Here are the portions from the Torah that are read in synagogues around the world during the two-day holiday of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year.
With global attention focused on Syria and other Middle Eastern countries, Palestine is struggling not to become invisible.
