Month January 2021
Iran has exceeded 17 kilograms of 20% enriched uranium within a month’s time, state media reported Thursday, moving its nuclear program closer to weapons-grade enrichment levels amid heightened tensions with… Read more » The post Iran: Production of Enriched Uranium… Continue Reading →
The Knesset is slated to vote Sunday to increase fines for violations of the ongoing coronavirus lockdown in a move which is aimed at ensuring support for a government decision… Read more » The post Israel Poised to Extend Lockdown… Continue Reading →
China said Friday it will no longer recognize the British National Overseas passport as a valid travel document or form of identification amid a bitter feud with London over a… Read more » The post China Derecognizes British National Overseas… Continue Reading →
A Russian court on Thursday rejected an appeal by opposition leader Alexei Navalny for his release from jail, while authorities detained several of his allies and warned social media companies about promoting more protests after tens of thousands rallied across… Continue Reading →
Israel recorded its largest number of coronavirus-related fatalities since the pandemic began this week, according to data released by the Health Ministry. A total of 403 coronavirus-related deaths were reported… Read more » The post Over 400 COVID-19 Deaths in… Continue Reading →
AstraZeneca offered eight million more doses of its COVID-19 vaccine to the European Union to try to defuse a row over supplies, but the bloc said that was too far… Read more » The post EU Holds Out for More… Continue Reading →
A Lithuanian lawmaker from the country’s ruling Homeland Union party has drawn widespread condemnation for the outrageous claim that Jews took part in the Holocaust. In an opinion piece in… Read more » The post Lithuanian MP Sparks Outrage With… Continue Reading →
President Joe Biden has named Robert Malley as special U.S. envoy for Iran, a senior official said on Thursday, giving the veteran diplomat a leading role in one of most… Read more » The post Former Obama Aide Malley Named… Continue Reading →
A World Health Organization-led team of experts investigating the origins of COVID-19 on Friday visited a hospital in the Chinese city of Wuhan that was one of the first to… Read more » The post WHO Team in Wuhan Visits… Continue Reading →
Israel’s Health Ministry identified three cases of the South African variant on Wednesday after carrying out sequencing on a random batch of test samples. The three Israelis who tested positive for the variant have not been in contact with the… Continue Reading →
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief called Thursday for global rules to regulate powerful social media companies like Twitter and Facebook. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he believes it shouldn’t be a company that has the power to decide… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden and aides showed touches of prickliness Thursday over growing scrutiny of the new president’s heavy reliance on executive orders in his first days in office. The president in just over a week has already… Continue Reading →
BEIJING (AP) — After a two-week quarantine, the real work can begin. Maybe. A World Health Organization team of researchers emerged from their hotel Thursday for the first time since their arrival in the central Chinese city of Wuhan to… Continue Reading →
After 18 years of denial, the Pakistani suspect convicted and later acquitted in the 2002 beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl has told a court he played a “minor” role in the killing, the Pearl family lawyer said Wednesday. A… Continue Reading →
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In his last State of the City address, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced his plans for the city as he enters his last year in office. He… Read more » The post Mayor Bill De Blasio Delivers… Continue Reading →
See why Bochurim from all over the tri-state area, from Lakewood to Waterbury and all communities in between, flock to Yeshiva Ohavei Torah of Riverdale. Watch the film that was screened at Ohavei’s Open House and get a glimpse of… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday ordered government health insurance markets to reopen for a special sign-up window, offering uninsured Americans a haven as the spread of COVID-19 remains dangerously high and vaccines aren’t yet widely available. Biden… Continue Reading →
A 35-year-old Israeli was attached to an ECMO machine on Wednesday after suffering a deterioration in his condition as a result of the coronavirus. Dekel Levi, a father of three young children, is a member of the Chabad community in… Continue Reading →
In spite of the slowly diminishing morbidity rate in Israel, high ranking officials in the Health Ministry told Channel 12 news in Israel that they are currently weighing options with regard to instating a strict lockdown over the holiday of… Continue Reading →