October 2002

Surveys find high European anti-Semitism

More than one-third of the people in Belgium, Germany, France and Spain hold strongly anti-Semitic views, according to two new surveys conducted for the Anti-Defamation League. The figures show that “all of Europe is infected” with anti-Semiti

Settlement dispute explodes coalition

Israel’s national unity government collapsed after days of haggling over settlement funding that analysts said masked internal party politics. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s budget passed by a vote of 67-45, with two abstentions. But the victor

Child actors die in hostage crisis

Child actress Kristina Kurbatova called home from a cell phone hours after she, along with some 800 other people, was taken hostage by Chechen kidnappers at a Moscow theater. She told her parents she was very scared. She had reason to be; she was one of s

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