WHO Report: Covid Likely 1st Jumped Into Humans From Animals
GENEVA (AP) — A joint World Health Organization-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most li...
Covid Vaccine Found Highly Effective In Real-world US Study
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. government’s first look at the real-world use of COVID-19 vaccines found their effectiveness was nearly as robust as it was in controlled studies.
The t...
Auschwitz Museum Says ‘Damage Done’ By New Yorker Article
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Auschwitz-Birkenau state museum said Monday that damage was done by a New Yorker article that explores efforts to stifle Holocaust scholarship in Poland, ...
China Summons Foreign Diplomats In Protest Over Sanctions
BEIJING (AP) — China on Tuesday said it summoned foreign diplomats in protest after the United States, the European Union, Canada and Britain jointly imposed sanctions on senior Ch...
White House: North Korea Conducted Short-Range Missile Test
WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korea fired short-range missiles this past weekend, just days after the sister of Kim Jong Un threatened the United States and South Korea for holding joint...
Exit Polls: Netanyahu Can Establish Right-Wing Gvt. With Razor-Thin Majority
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Exit polls from the three main television channels in Israel reveal that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu may be able to form a coalition with right-wing par...
Israeli Companies Adopt ‘If You Don’t Vaccinate, You Can’t Work’ Policy
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — After a landmark Labor Court decision allowed employers to prevent workers who have not vaccinated or taken negative COVID-19 tests coming to work, a number o...
Video: Police Arrest Man Who Assaulted Pregnant Jewish Woman Outside London
LONDON (JNS) - Metropolitan Police in London arrested a man on Monday seen on video attacking a young Jewish woman last week in the heavily Jewish neighborhood of Stamford Hill.
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Polish Writer Facing Prison For Calling President ‘Moron’
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A popular Polish writer is facing a potential sentence of up to three years in prison for calling the nation's president a “moron” on social media.
Jakub Z...
Analysis: Netanyahu’s Incredible Timing May Prove Gamechanger
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — As Israelis drag themselves for the fourth time in two years to the polling booth, there is no assurance that this election will end the political impasse whi...
Brazilian Political Party Leader Says Jews ‘Sacrificed Children’
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Jewish groups have filed a criminal complaint against the head of a major Brazilian party for putting the age-old anti-Semitic blood libel trope in a social ...
Putin To Get Coronavirus Vaccine Shot In Russia On Tuesday
MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin said he will get a coronavirus vaccine shot on Tuesday, several months after widespread vaccination started in Russia.
Kremlin opponents h...
EU Slaps Sanctions On 4 Chinese Officials Over Uyghur Abuses
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union imposed Monday sanctions on four Chinese officials accused of responsibility for abuses against Uyghur Muslims, provoking swift retaliation from ...
German Lawmaker Dies After Collapsing On Flight Home
BERLIN (AP) — A lawmaker with German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party has died after collapsing on a plane during a flight home to Germany.
Karin Strenz, 53, was flying back fro...
Mexico Limits Non-Essential Travel On Southern Border
CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico (AP) — The Mexican banks of the Suchiate river dawned Sunday with a heavy presence of immigration agents in place to enforce Mexico’s new limits on all but e...
Whiskey Makers Face Worsening Hangover From Trade Dispute
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A hangover from Trump-era tariff disputes could become even more painful for American whiskey distillers unless their entanglement in a trans-Atlantic trade ...
Indian ‘Eldest Mother’ Who Gave Birth To Twins At Age 73 Widowed 12 Months Later
NEW YORK (VINnews) — An Indian woman who gave birth to twins at the age of 73 and is thought to be the oldest mother in the world has been widowed just over a year later. Mangayamm...
US, Belgium, France And Japan Hold Mideast Naval Exercise
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Navy said Sunday it will hold a major naval exercise alongside Belgium, France and Japan in the Mideast amid tensions over Iran's nuclea...
AP Sources: Iran Threatens US Army Base And Top General
TEHRAN (AP) - Iran has made threats against Fort McNair, an Army base in the nation's capital, and against the Army’s vice chief of staff, two senior U.S. intelligence officials sa...
Watch: Israel And UAE Hold First Friendly Rugby Game, With Friday Night Kiddush Afterwards
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Israeli national rugby team held a historic first friendly game with the UAE's national team in Dubai Friday as part of what has been termed the Abraham A...