German Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned anti-Semitism during a ceremony to mark 70 years since the liberation of the Dachau Nazi concentration camp.

As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces next Wednesday deadline to form a coalition government, Avigdor Lieberman, current Foreign Minister and leader of the Yisrael Beitenu party, said he was resigning from his post and that he would not join the new coalition.

Meretz leader Zahava Gal-On took aim at the premier's intention to pass a law allowing Israelis abroad to vote in parliamentary elections.

Leftist students set up booths on their schools campus and held signs reading ''Sieg Heil - Hell No.''

''If a serious regional effort has not emerged in the Middle East during the last five years, it is not because of Israel,'' read the statement.

EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini has expressed the hope that a final nuclear agreement with Iran would clear the way for Tehran to play a “major but positive role” in the conflicts in the Middle East, particularly in Syria.

Israel has sent more manpower than any other country to assist Nepal following last Friday’s magnitude-7.8 earthquake that killed more than 5,000 people in the country, a chart published by CNN has revealed.

Italy opened Friday the Milan International Expo 2015, a prestigious event which is held every five years. The fair follows the 2010 Expo in Shanghai, China.

The European Union provides every year 300 millions euros to Palestine destined to intervene in the sectors of instruction, health and jobs but not all of these funds arrive at destination, according EU officials who spoke Wednesday in Strasbourg during a debate on EU funds for the Middle East, in the European Parliament delegation for relations with Israel.

Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, a former Auschwitz prisoner and member of Poland's underground WWII resistance who helped save Jews and later served twice as the country's Foreign Minister, died in Warsaw at the age of 93.