Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was hospitalized after testing positive for the coronavirus earlier this week, a government official said on Thursday. “He first went home, but decided to move to Feofania (hospital). To accurately isolate and not expose anyone,” the official told Reuters. The official added that Zelensky’s condition is “nothing serious” but “there are […]
Dr. Luca Cabrini was certain his hospital in the heart of Lombardy‘s lake district would reach its breaking point caring for 300 COVID-19 patients. So far, virus patients fill 500 beds and counting. Italy, which shocked the world and itself when hospitals in the wealthy north were overwhelmed with coronavirus cases last spring, is again […]
Three global airline alliances are urging governments to put into practice common guidelines for passenger testing and digital health pass technology, to help people start flying again. Oneworld, Star Alliance and SkyTeam said testing could be part of an overall approach to restart international travel, by reducing reliance on the “blunt instrument” of quarantines aimed […]
By: Shira Perlstein Following record breaking enrollment in Fall 2020, Sara Schenirer announces an expanded set of undergraduate and graduate degree offerings for Spring 2021, which begins in January. “Because of
President-elect Joe Biden’s top allies on Capitol Hill adopted a combative posture on COVID-19 relief on Thursday, pressing their case for a $2 trillion bill that’s a nonstarter for Republicans and faulting the GOP for dragging its feet on acknowledging Biden’s victory. The message from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck […]
Developers of Sputnik V, Russia’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine, announced Wednesday that early, interim data from a large trial suggests the shot appears to be 92% effective. The statement, which did not include detailed information about the trial, comes just two days after a similar one from Pfizer Inc., but is based on far fewer virus […]
President-elect Joe Biden quietly pushed forward with the business of preparing to become America’s next commander in chief on Wednesday, ignoring President Donald Trump’s unprecedented push to block his Democratic rival’s transition. Biden stepped away from his closed-door planning only to honor the nation’s fallen soldiers for a Veterans Day tribute at the Korean War […]
Brian Contreras represents the worst fears of the lucrative business travel industry. A partner account executive at a U.S. tech firm, Contreras was used to traveling frequently for his company.
The popular video-sharing app TikTok, its future in limbo since President Donald Trump tried to shut it down earlier this fall, is asking a federal court to intervene. TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, has until Thursday to sell off its U.S. operations under an executive order that Trump signed in August. Trump in September gave his […]
President Donald Trump visited the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday, emerging in public for the first time since Election Day to take part in
Iran continues to increase its stockpile of low-enriched uranium far beyond the limits set in a landmark nuclear deal with world powers and to enrich it to a greater purity than permitted, the U.N.’s atomic watchdog agency said Wednesday. The International Atomic Energy Agency reported in a confidential document distributed to member countries and seen […]
As politicians around the world, including left-wing Israelis, eulogize Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat, who died on Tuesday in an Israeli hospital, some Israelis refuse to join the chorus. Jerusalem
The term “meis mitzvah” is one that evokes the purest, most genuine and heartfelt feelings among Jews. Many people might assume that it is a mitzvah that is reserved for a select few, the heroes of the chevrah kadisha who undertake the burial of those without family. But that is not the case. The Hebrew Free Burial Association is […]
President-elect Joe Biden feels at home on Capitol Hill, but the place sure has changed since he left. The clubby atmosphere that Biden knew so well during his 36-year Senate career is gone, probably forever. Deal-makers are hard to find. And the election results haven’t dealt him a strong hand to pursue his legislative agenda, […]
Mohammed al-Sisi, the head of the Foreign Affairs, Defense and National Security Committee in the Bahraini Council of Representatives, the lower house of the national legislature, told The Media Line
Iran’s Foreign Minister transmitted a message earlier this week to the Islamic country’s rivals that they won’t be able to count on the US anymore to help them, an Aljazeera report said. “Trump’s gone in 70 days but we’ll remain here forever,” Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stated on Twitter in English and Arabic, in […]
Israel’s Knesset Tuesday ratified the country’s recent agreement establishing formal diplomatic relations with the Gulf state of Bahrain by an overwhelming majority. The agreement was approved by a 62-14 margin, with only the members of the Arab Joint List party voting against. The vote was largely a formality, following last month’s signing of an agreement […]
For over half a century, a massive graveyard on the edge of Iran’s capital has provided a final resting place for this country’s war dead, its celebrities and artists, its thinkers and leaders and all those in between. But Behesht-e-Zahra is now struggling to keep up with the coronavirus pandemic ravaging Iran, with double the […]
Team Trump says they have 234 pages of sworn affidavits under penalty of perjury alleging election irregularities from just ONE county in Michigan. All types of allegations of fraud are
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