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U.S. Health Secretary Alex Azar says the push to develop a COVID-19 vaccine is “not a race to be first.” Azar’s comments during a visit to Taiwan on Wednesday follow Russian…
Iran's president and foreign minister lashed out on Wednesday at a revised proposal by the U.S. that would extend a U.N. arms embargo on Iran indefinitely, the latest in the…
With a coronavirus vaccine still months off, companies are rushing to test what may be the next best thing: drugs that deliver antibodies to fight the virus right away, without…
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his new running mate, Senator Kamala Harris, will make their first appearance as a ticket on Wednesday in Wilmington, Delaware, as the campaign for…
Israel's Defense Establishment thwarted a cyberattack on Wednesday that targeted various Israeli defense companies, according to a statement from the Defense Ministry. The attempted cyberattack was conducted by an international cyber…
Israel
Israel’s national coronavirus commissioner Professor Ronni Gamzu visited Yerushalayim on Wednesday, meeting with Mayor Moshe Lion and other municipal officials, as the city has the most highest number of coronavirus…
The Knesset voted down on Wednesday a Yesh Atid bill which would bar Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu from seeking reelection. The bill, to ban anyone under indictment for serious crimes…
The Knesset plenum voted – 56 MKs in favor to 41 against – on Wednesday afternoon on a preliminary reading of a bill that would postpone the deadline for passing…
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The years-long, €8.3 million ($9,750,000) restoration of the Carlebach shul in the city of Lübeck, in northern Germany, has been completed, but the gala reopening— which would have included hachnasas…
The Sadigura community in particular and in the Chassidus in general are in deep mourning with the petirah of the Sadigura Rebbe, zy”a, late Monday night, at the age of…
National
Hundreds of thousands of residents in Iowa’s three largest cities remained without electricity Wednesday, two days after a rare wind storm that hit the Midwest devastated the state’s power grid,…
A federal appeals court has agreed to give prosecutors another month to decide their next step after the court tossed Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence. The 1st Circuit…
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Russia said on Wednesday the first batch of its COVID-19 vaccine would be ready for some medics within two weeks and rejected as “groundless” safety concerns aired by some experts…
Paris Prosecutors Investigate Apparent Anti-Semitic AttackFrench police are investigating an apparent anti-Semitic attack on a 29-year-man in an apartment building in northeast Paris. A group that tracks anti-Semitic violence and hate speech in France, BNVCA,…
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