Paris area synagogue hit by firebomb attack

Two Molotov cocktails were hurled at a synagogue north of Paris, the latest attack in what the interior minister said Monday is a new wave of anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim attacks over the violence in Gaza.

President Nicolas Sarkozy met with French religious leaders and reiterated the need to avoid "transposing" onto French soil a foreign conflict that France has been working to ease, his office said. (AP)