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TV footage showed police and rescuers using rubber boats to evacuate the 101 passengers and seven crew members.

Carmen Weinstein will be buried on Thursday in the Bassatine cemetery she herself worked to save since 1978. It is the only Jewish cemetery left in Cairo and is the largest in Egypt.

Witnesses say two gas bombs dropped on Aleppo from an army helicopter; Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says woman and two children killed; another airstrike kills 12 civilians in Idlib province, the group adds.

10th-grade teacher in Albany, N.Y., asked students to make a persuasive argument blaming Jews for problems of Nazi Germany.

Kicking off four days of talks in an East Asia beset by increasing North Korean threats, John Kerry tells reporters a missile test would only increase the regime's isolation.

New York man was arrested for hate crimes after 12 mezuzahs were vandalized in Brooklyn.

The Museum of the History of the Polish Jews, set to open its permanent exhibition next year, celebrates Jewish life in Poland before the Holocaust and confronts Poles with its own dark chapters of anti-Semitism.

Pentagon spy agency suggests North Korea may be able to arm ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead.

The boy's father says his 14-year-old son was taken into custody early last Friday morning by eight assault-rifle wielding soldiers.

G8 foreign ministers condemned rights violations in Syria, refraining however from taking sides in the conflict.

Organizers say the multimillion dollar museum in Birzeit will tell the diverse stories of Palestinians on their land and in the diaspora.

Leonard Lauder's gift to the Metropolitan Museum of Art includes 78 works by Cubism masters; Met calls the collection 'transformational,' plans to put it on display in fall of 2014.

Jabhat al-Nusra, considered the most effective fighting force among Syrian rebel groups, pledges obedience to al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri; however, it distanced itself from claims it had merged with al-Qaida in Iraq.

Officials close to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas say conditions remain that renewed peace talks must address borders and prisoners - regardless of pledges made by U.S. state secretary to aid ailing Palestinian economy.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says has agreed to work with both Israel and the Palestinians to advance economic projects in the West Bank in bid to revive Mideast peace process.

Authorities say Edmond Paolucci returned a share of the profits to Israel, where they say the drug distribution ring was based.

Union with Syria's Jabhat al-Nusra, designated a terror group by the U.S., further complicates effort to send arms to rebels from abroad.

Majdal Krum resident Milad Khatib is convicted of assisting an enemy in wartime.

Centers closed last week after dozens of Palestinians stormed the UN headquarters to protest the suspension of cash assistance to thousands of families.

Benny Gantz makes a speech to thousands of youths marching at Auschwitz-Birkenau in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Days after first flight in 30 years departs Cairo for Tehran, Sunni Islamists protest warming Egypt-Iran ties.

The U.K.'s Guardian newspaper reports redeployment of several thousand Syrian troops from the Golan Heights on Monday; nearly 9,000 government troops have been killed in two years of fighting, says Syrian humans rights group.

New allegations likely to keep Egypt's former president in jail.

Turkish FM tells visiting U.S. Secretary of State that Ankara still demands complete lift of Gaza blockade; Kerry says 'door is still open' for negotiated agreement with Iran.

U.S. official says Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel delays test out of concerns of exacerbating current crisis with North Korea; China expresses concern over tensions.