US President Barack Obama paid homage to victims to the Holocaust on Monday, saying it underscores the need for ''standing up against intolerance and injustice.''

Israel’s Deputy Minister of Health, Yaakov Litsman, who is currently in Moscow to attend the World Forum of Health Ministers, paid a visit to the Moscow Jewish Community Center in the Marina Roscha neighborhood.

Traffic ground to a halt across Israel and pedestrians stopped in their tracks for two minutes on Monday as the Jewish state paused to remember the horrors of the Holocaust.

Senior administration officials say the body was handled according to Islamic practice and tradition, requiring the body to be buried within 24 hours.

Mastermind of 9/11 attacks had been missing since he disappeared in Afghanistan in late 2001; military operation is major coup for U.S. president and his national security team; Bush: This is a 'momentous achievement.'

Incidents of anti-Semitic nature worldwide fell sharply in 2010 compared to the previous year, but the numbers rose overall over the past decade, Tel Aviv University said in a report on Sunday.

Hours before the beginning of Holocaust Remembrande Day (Yom HaShoah in Hebrew), Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said that the ''lessons of the Holocaust have not been learned.''

The European Union has agreed to impose sanctions against Syria for its brutal repression on anti-government protesters.

Ban Ki-moon says the unity agreement should not undermine peace with Israel and wants Abbas' more moderate Fatah movement to lead any unity government.

After years in exile in Damascus, the Hamas political leadership, headed by Khaled Meshaal, will leave the Syrian capital for the Arab emirate city just days after historic Fatah-Hamas reconciliation deal.