Jerusalem court

Bulgarian Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov on Monday dismissed suggestions that Omar Zayed, a Palestinian man whose dead body was found in front of the Palestinian Embassy in Sofia, might have been murdered.

He told reporters that the post-mortem examination of Zayed's body had shown no signs of violence.

Thousands of Israelis attended demonstrations across the country on August 1, two days after an ultra-Orthodox Jew stabbed six people at Jerusalem's gay pride parade, leaving one teenager in critical condition.

A Jerusalem court sentenced former prime minister Ehud Olmert to eight months in prison on May 25, after convicting him of corruption in a March retrial, Israeli media reported.

A Jerusalem court found former Israeli premier Ehud Olmert guilty of corruption March 30 in a retrial of allegations he received envelopes of cash from a US businessman, the verdict read.