EU corrects Ashton speech transcript after Israeli anger

The European Union issued Tuesday a corrected version of a speech by its foreign policy chief which had angered Israel because it appeared to link a French school shooting and Gaza.

The new transcript of Catherine Ashton's remarks mentions the situation of children in both Gaza and the southern Israeli town of Sderot after the first version only mentioned the Palestinian territory. A video of her speech Monday showed she indeed mentioned Sderot, a town often hit by Palestinian rocket attacks. (AFP)