Hamas shut down Gaza City's only power plant, claiming Israel did not provide enough fuel to run it.
The businessman tied to the Ehud Olmert probe reportedly paid Olmert's nearly $5,000 hotel tab for a one-night stay in Washington.
Israel will hear Egypt's proposal for a truce with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The Bush administration may link Israel to a U.S. missile-defense system.
Senior members of Israel's ruling Kadima Party voiced solidarity with Ehud Olmert despite his legal woes.
Egypt temporarily opened its border with the Gaza Strip.
Belarusian Jews remembered the mass killing of Minsk Ghetto Jews 65 years ago.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg called on the leaders of Northern Ireland to take down the so-called "peace walls."
A demonstration protesting Israel's role as guest of honor at the Turin Book Fair proceeded without incident.
An Israeli was killed in a Palestinian mortar barrage on a kibbutz outside the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Authority's top peace negotiator said the police investigation of Ehud Olmert could stymie talks with Israel.
Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke reportedly was invited to judge a local beauty pageant.
Threats to Israel are also threats to Canada, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said.
Britain does not intend to boycott the 2009 U.N. anti-racism conference, the foreign secretary indicated.
A former Australian prime minister has called opposition to negotiating with Hamas a "major mistake."