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France has stepped up police patrols around Jewish sites following the deadly shooting of two Israeli embassy staff in Washington. The attack is being treated as an anti-Semitic terror act. At the same time, Paris has sharply rejected Israeli claims that European governments are encouraging anti-Israeli violence.

COMMENT: The killing of two Israeli embassy workers outside a Jewish event in the US capital shocked the world – but it will also have grave diplomatic repercussions, says Mary Dejevsky

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Friday that he had again pressed US President Donald Trump on tariffs, in a phone call ahead of fresh talks on easing the levies.

Ofir Akunis, the consul general of Israel in New York, spoke out after the shooting deaths of two staff members of the Israeli embassy in Washington by a suspect who reportedly said ‘free Palestine’ after the killings

On 21 May 2025, two Israeli Embassy staff were shot dead outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. The suspect, Elias Rodriguez, shouted 'Free Palestine' during his arrest.

Outrage over George Floyd's killing by police catapulted Black Lives Matter into one of the largest protest movements in US history, with angry crowds chanting the slogan at rallies from Los Angeles to Washington.

The suspect accused of gunning down two Israeli embassy staffers outside a Jewish museum in Washington was charged Thursday with murder, as international tensions over anti-Semitism erupted over the attack.

Critics of Israel’s atrocious conduct in Gaza should be clear that their focus is the authors of that violence – not Israeli civilians

Elias Rodriguez is accused of murdering Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim outside a Jewish museum in Washington on Wednesday