THE Vatican sought yesterday to quell its latest public dispute with Jewish groups, saying the Pope’s decision to move Pope Pius XII closer to sainthood isn’t an act of hostility against those who say he didn’t sufficiently denounce the Holocaust.

Holocaust-denying British bishop Richard Williamson will not be allowed to enter any Roman Catholic church, school or other building in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

SO the Vatican has rejected Bishop Richard Williamson’s carefully worded half-apology for his remarks about the Holocaust. About time, too. He only said sorry for the “distress caused” but there is no sign he has revised his view that the gas chambers at Auschwitz were a Jewish invention. Williamson hasn’t had a change of heart; that much is clear.

GERMANY is considering issuing an arrest warrant on hate crime charges against a Holocaust-denying bishop, the country’s justice minister said yesterday.

Germany may issue an arrest warrant on hate crime charges against the British Holocaust-denying Catholic bishop Richard Williamson, the justice minister said today.

The Vatican today rejected an apology from Holocaust row Bishop Richard Williamson saying it was not enough to re-admit him to the church.

A British-born Roman Catholic bishop who was asked to leave Argentina after making “deeply offensive” comments about the Holocaust arrived back in Britain today.

The British bishop at the centre of the Catholic church Holocaust row fled Argentina today.

Argentina has thrown out Holocaust-denying British bishop Richard Williamson, saying he must leave the country in 10 days.

The Pope denounced Holocaust denial again today when he met Jewish leaders as the row over his reinstatement of a right-wing bishop rumbled on.

A British bishop who faces a Vatican demand to recant his denial of the Holocaust said he would examine the evidence of the Nazis’ mass killings, but it “will take time,” a German magazine reported today.

The ultra-Right British bishop readmitted to the Catholic church despite denying the Holocaust existed was today ordered to formally withdraw the comments.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel entered the row over the Catholic church and Holocaust denials today by demanding the pope give a “very clear” rejection of them.

A BISHOP recently rehabilitated by Pope Benedict XVI expressed regret yesterday to the pontiff for the “distress and problems” he caused by denying the Holocaust.

An English bishop has expressed regret to the pontiff for “distress and problems” caused by his denial of the Holocaust.

Israel’s highest Jewish body severed ties with the Vatican today in protest at the pope’s decision to reinstate a bishop who publicly denied millions of Jews were killed during the Holocaust.

North Korea wants talks with the United States alone to discuss its nuclear weapons programme and has snubbed efforts to include China, Russia and South Korea, US Secretary of State Colin Powell has told Congress.

JAPAN has warned it would launch a pre-emptive military action against North Korea if it had firm evidence Pyongyang was planning a missile attack.