UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The president of the U.N. General Assembly said Monday that world leaders will not be coming to New York for their annual gathering in late September for the first time in the 75-year history of the United Nations because of the COVID-19 pandemic. But Tijjani Muhammad-Bande told a news conference that […]

MINNEAPOLIS (VINnews) — At a demonstration Saturday in Minneapolis against racism and police brutality in the wake of George Floyd’s death, Minnesota State congresswoman Ilhan Omar addressed the large crowd of protesters. Omar, a naturalized Somalian refugee who uses her position to fight for the rights of woman and Afro-Americans, referred to the fact that […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – The World Health Organization says it still believes the spread of the coronavirus from people without symptoms is “rare,” despite warnings from numerous experts worldwide that such transmission is more frequent and likely explains why the pandemic has been so hard to contain. Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO’s technical lead on COVID-19 said […]

BERLIN (AP) — A man has been arrested in Germany after allegedly threatening an attack on Muslims, citing the assailant who attacked mosques in New Zealand last year, prosecutors said Monday. The 21-year-old from the northern city of Hildesheim is suspected of announcing his intention to carry out an attack “with multiple dead” in an […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The disturbing pictures of George Floyd’s arrest and subsequent murder reminded a young Chareidi Jerusalem resident of his traumatic arrest at the hands of Israeli policemen just half a year ago. Now he has decided to pursue damages from the police officer involved as well as demanding an internal investigation of the […]

BEIJING (AP) — Senior Chinese officials released a lengthy report Sunday on the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, defending their government’s actions and saying that China had provided information in a timely and transparent manner. China “wasted no time” in sharing information such as the genome sequence for the new virus with the World […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A number of leading Chabad rabbis have expressed public opposition to the peace plan being developed by the Trump administration which includes annexation of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria as well as the establishment of a Palestinian state on the remaining lands, according to a Kikar Hashabat report. One of the […]

TEL AVIV (VINnews) — Thousands of Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv Saturday evening to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s pledge to begin annexing parts of the West Bank next month. Police had initially sought to block the demonstration but after organizers promised that participants would wear masks and maintain social distancing, they relented and allowed […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of protesters streamed into the nation’s capital and other major cities Saturday in another huge mobilization against police brutality while George Floyd was remembered in his North Carolina hometown by mourners who waited hours for a glimpse of his golden coffin. Military vehicles and officers in fatigues closed off much of […]

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — French forces have killed Abdelmalek Droukdel, the leader of al-Qaida’s North Africa affiliate, the France’s defense minister announced late Friday, in what would be a major victory for France after years of battling jihadists in the Sahel. There was no immediate confirmation of his death from al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, […]