Quartet of Middle East peace negotiators expected to announce resumption of direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, call for Palestinian state within two years.
The Palestinian Authority is very close to agreeing to direct talks with Israel and is likely to give a definitive go-ahead perhaps as early as Sunday, according to EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.
US President Barack Obama on Friday strongly defended the plan to build a mosque near Ground Zero, the site where Muslim terrorists flew airplanes into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 and killed nearly 3,000 Americans, saying Muslims have the right to do so.
Obama tells Turkish prime minister that Ankara's position on Israel and Iran could lower its chances of obtaining U.S. weapons, the Financial Times reports.
A fire that broke out overnight has destroyed a wooden barracks filled with the shoes of victims of the Majdanek Nazi death camp, in Lublin, eastern Poland, officials said.
