Deputy Interior Minister Stefano Candiani says that such evacuations, in which the U.N. screens asylum-seekers in situ, are the way people deserving of protection should arrive in Europe.

IDF says order to fire came from Islamic Jihad commander Baha Abu al-Ata, who was acting on instructions from the group's Damascus-based leader.

According to the London-based pan-Arabic daily Asharq Al-Awsat, officials in Damascus say that more Syrian and Druze prisoners could be traded for the bodies of IDF soldiers being held by Syria.

The Times' total, blinding hatred of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has replaced the traditional demonization of Jews by anti-Semites, including the anti-Semites among the Jewish people.

In first video appearance in five years, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, to whom the Sri Lanka bombers pledged their loyalty, says the Easter Sunday attacks "struck the homes of the crusaders."