The New York Times has denied rumors that it refused to print an opinion piece authored by jurist Richard Goldstone in which he retracted some of the statements made in his UN Human Rights Council report on the war between Israel and Gaza in 2008-2009, political columnist Ben Smith reports in Politico.
The International Criminal Court has evidence Muammar Gadhafi\’s government planned to put down protests by killing civilians before the uprising in Libya broke out, the ICC\’s prosecutor said on Tuesday.
The German government will increase funds given to Holocaust survivors by 15 percent. The new deal reached Tuesday between Germany and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, known as the Claims Conference, means that the German government\’s contribution to homecare funding for Holocaust survivors around the world will rise from $156 million in 2011 to about $180 million in 2012. The allocations will rise to nearly $200 million by 2014.
United States President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that with the winds of change sweeping the broader Middle East it was \”more urgent than ever\” to find a peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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