Morocco Acquires 65 Million Vaccine Doses From China, UK
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Morocco announced it has acquired 65 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from China’s Sinopharm and Britain’s AstraZeneca, as the north African kingdom prepare...
Japan Confirms Cases Of New Coronavirus Variant
TOKYO -- Japan’s health ministry has confirmed the country’s first cases of infection with the new variant of the coronavirus that was identified in Britain.
The five people arr...
US To Require Negative COVID-19 Test From UK Travelers
ATLANTA (AP) — The United States will require airline passengers from Britain to get a negative COVID-19 test before their flight, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention an...
Israeli Chief Rabbi Refuses To Allow Vaccinations On Shabbos Until They Are Given 24/7
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli Chief Rabbi David Lau was asked by health minister Yuli Edelstein, who is an orthodox Jew himself, whether he would permit vaccinations on Shabbos due...
South Korea Reports Record Surge, Ramps Up Testing
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has reported its largest daily increase in coronavirus infections on Christmas Day, as the prime minister pleaded for vigilance to arrest a vi...
Mexico Starts Giving First Shots Of Pfizer-Biontech Vaccine
MEXICO CITY (AP) — An intensive care nurse in Mexico City on Thursday became the first person in Latin America to receive an approved coronavirus vaccine.
Mexico began administe...
Doctor Who Claimed Racial Discrimination While Being Treated For COVID-19 Dies Of Virus
NEW YORK (VINnews) — An Indianapolis doctor who complained publicly about her treatment for coronavirus and claimed that due to her color she received inferior treatment died of t...
New Jersey Adds Virus Measures For UK Travelers
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — United Airlines travelers to New Jersey’s Newark Liberty Airport from the United Kingdom will have to show a negative COVID-19 test beginning next week.
New...
Breakthrough: UK And EU Reach Post-Brexit Trade Agreement
BRUSSELS (AP) — Just a week before the deadline, Britain and the European Union struck a free-trade deal Thursday that should avert economic chaos on New Year's and bring a measure...
Graffiti Reading ‘Murdering Jews We Will Hang You’ Painted At Spanish Jewish Cemetery
MADRID (JTA) - Graffiti reading “good Jew dead Jew’ and “murdering Jews we will hang you” were written on the gate of a Jewish cemetery near Madrid, Spain.
The graffiti, featuri...
Africa CDC: New Virus Variant Appears To Emerge In Nigeria
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Another new variant of the coronavirus appears to have emerged in Nigeria, Africa’s top public health official said Thursday, but he added that further invest...
Rabbi Yehuda Herzl Henkin Passes Away At 75
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Yehuda Herzl Henkin, one of the prominent Poskim in the religious Zionist community and a grandson of Rabbi Yosef Henkin, passed away Thursday at the ag...
Rabbi Yitzchak Zilberstein: Vaccine Has The Authority Of Beis Din- And Should Be Taken
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — Rabbi Yitzchak Zilberstein, a member of the Council of Torah Sages and a world-recognized authority on matters of medicine and Halacha, published Wednesday a ...
Court Orders Release Of Man Charged In Daniel Pearl Killing
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A provincial court in Pakistan on Thursday ordered the release of a British-born Pakistani man charged in the 2002 murder of American journalist Daniel Pea...
Inventor Of Pfizer Vaccine Says Virus Will Cause More Outbreaks ‘For The Next 10 Years’
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Ugur Sahin, the Turkish-German inventor of the world's first approved vaccine for coronavirus, says that the virus could still be causing outbreaks in 10 years...
Virus-Linked Isolation Of UK Eases But Backlog Persists
DOVER, England (AP) — Gridlock at an English port kept thousands of truckers and travelers stranded Wednesday despite a deal with France to lift a two-day blockade imposed because ...
Following Attack On US Embassy In Iraq, Trump Warns Iran
WASHINGTON (JNS) - Following a rocket attack on the U.S. embassy in Iraq earlier this week, U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday blamed Iran for the action and warned that the ...
150 House Democrats Sign Letter Backing Biden’s Bid To Reenter Iran Nuclear Deal
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A letter backing President-elect Joe Biden’s plan to reenter the Iran nuclear deal without any new conditions has garnered 150 signatures from House Democrats — ...
Amia Bombing Suspect Acquitted In Historic Trial, Sparking Outrage From Argentine Jewish Groups That Vow To Appeal
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — Argentine Jewish groups were expecting a long-awaited victory on Wednesday in the 26-year struggle for justice in the 1994 AMIA Jewish center terror...
Russia Cuts Size Of COVID-19 Vaccine Study, Stops Enrollment
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Health Ministry agreed Wednesday to cut the size of a study of a domestically developed coronavirus vaccine and to stop the enrollment of volunteers.
The ...