Will PA's UN vote be held on Rosh Hashana or Yom Kippur?

Foreign Ministry receives reports Palestinian move an attempt to neutralize Israel's ability to speak before the assembly or exert pressure behind the scenes

Abbas: We won't recognize Israel as Jewish state

Palestinian leader defiant ahead of UN statehood bid, urges international community to back off; 'Don’t order us to recognize Jewish state,' he says. Foreign Minister says world must tell Abbas state cannot come at Israel's expense

'Iran likely to close British embassy'

Wed Aug 10, 2011 6:47AM GMT

A British woman pleads with a police officer to release her son after they detained him on Tuesday, August 9, 2011 in north London, the United Kingdom.

Amid widespread unrest in the United Kingdom over the killing of a Black man in London, a senior Iranian lawmaker warns that Iran may shut down the British embassy in Tehran.