Hollywood star and U.N. special envoy Angelina Jolie on Thursday visited Turkey's largest camp for Syrian refugees near the border, where overjoyed thousands welcomed her, Turkish media reported.

Jolie, accompanied by U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonia Guterres, met with some of the 12,000 refugees at Oncupinar camp in southeastern Kilis city, which lies right on the border with their conflict-wracked homeland.

Israeli prosecutors have charged six Jewish minors with a hate attack on a Palestinian man in a Jewish neighborhood of Jerusalem last week, the justice ministry confirmed on Thursday.

It said in a statement received by Agence France Presse that the six set upon Ibrahim Abu Taa, a 28-year-old hotel employee from mainly Arab east Jerusalem, late last Wednesday as he and a Jewish workmate drove a female colleague home in the blue-collar Katamon neighborhood after partying at a west Jerusalem club.

U.S. President Barack Obama called the leaders of Egypt and Libya to discuss security cooperation following the violence in Cairo and Benghazi, the White House said Thursday.

Obama urged Egypt to uphold its commitments to protect U.S. diplomats and called on Libya to work with U.S. authorities to bring those behind the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate, which killed the U.S. ambassador, to justice.

Gunmen kidnapped a Turkish tourist bus driver in southern Yemen on Wednesday to apply pressure on the authorities to release a fellow tribesman, an official in Abyan province said.

He said the driver, returning with his empty vehicle from Mukala, the capital of Hadramaut province, was intercepted in the Abyan town of Shakla.

The U.N. Security Council and U.N. leader Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday hit out at the killing of the U.S. ambassador in Libya as "unjustifiable."

The 15-nation council put aside divisions over the NATO military action in Libya and the Syria conflict to agree on a statement condemning the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi "in the strongest terms."

A U.S. hostage held by al-Qaida made a "one Jew to another" appeal for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to help secure his release, SITE Intelligence Group reported on Wednesday.

Warren Weinstein, a relief worker with USAID who was captured in Lahore, Pakistan, in August 2011, appeared in a video on Islamist websites, the U.S.-based monitoring group said.

Tunisian police on Wednesday fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of Salafist demonstrators outside the U.S. embassy in Tunis gathered to condemn a film deemed offensive to Islam, an Agence France Presse photographer said.

He said the intervention came as the demonstrators, estimated to number 300, started to try to break through the gates of the embassy compound after having demonstrated peacefully for several hours outside.

Hundreds of Muslims protested on Wednesday outside the U.S. consulate in Morocco's largest city Casablanca to decry a film deemed insulting to Islam that already sparked deadly violence in Libya, an Agence France Presse photographer reported.

The protesters, numbering between 300 and 400 mostly young activists, gathered around 200 meters (yards) from the consulate amid a heavy police presence.

Israel on Wednesday denied any connection to an anti-Islamic film which was reportedly produced by a U.S. national with Israeli nationality, which sparked attacks on the U.S. missions in Egypt and Libya.

"It is nothing to do with us, Israel is not connected in any way to this story," foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor told Agence France Presse, condemning the amateurish film as "intolerable intolerance."

A Casablanca court on Wednesday sentenced five members of Morocco's February 20 opposition movement to between eight and 10 months in jail for holding an "unauthorized demonstration," their lawyer said.

"Three were condemned to 10 months in prison, two to eight months and a young woman, who appeared in the court freely, got a six-month suspended sentence," Omar Benjelloun told Agence France Presse.