Israel’s opposition leader on Thursday called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cancel his upcoming speech to the U.S. Congress, saying it will cause “strategic damage” to ties with Washington. Isaac Herzog, head of the opposition Labor Party, has led a chorus of voices in Israel urging Netanyahu to renege and not deliver the speech, which was engineered with congressional Republicans without the knowledge of the White House. Six small bombs exploded Thursday in the Giza district across the Nile from Cairo, killing one person and wounding 10 others, security officials said. The attack appears to be the latest in a campaign waged by Islamist militants since the military ouster of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood in July 2013, the officials said. An Al Jazeera journalist will face court for illegally flying a drone in Paris, amid a spate of drone flyovers that have confounded French authorities amid heightened security concerns. The number of people killed in a massive avalanche in a mountain-bound valley in northeastern Afghanistan rose on Thursday to 165 as lack of equipment and the sheer depth of snow that buried entire homes and families hampered rescue efforts. German authorities defused an unexploded World War II bomb Thursday close to Dortmund’s soccer stadium after evacuating the area.