WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — One of New Zealand’s largest media organizations will be sold for a single dollar to its chief executive, the owners announced Monday. The organization Stuff prints many of the nation’s daily newspapers and runs a popular news website of the same name. It employs about 900 staff, including 400 journalists. […]

WASHINGTON — The White House has announced a ban on travel to the U.S. from Brazil due to the spread of coronavirus in Latin America’s hardest-hit country. Press secretary Kayleigh McEnany says in a statement Sunday evening that the ban applies to foreign nationals who have been in Brazil in the 14 days before they […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Shimon Ragovey, a senior medical advisor to the Chareidi sector in Israel, warned against opening shuls and stated that it could be dangerous especially on Shavuos night. In an interview with Kikar Hashabat, Rabbi Ragovey said that “Shavuos night holds a much more potent danger since it involved a very large […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Just prior to his appearance in court, Prime Minister Netanyahu met with Holocaust survivors who came from all around the country to express their support for him. One of the survivors said that she was praying for him like she prayed for her sister in the forest when she was wounded and […]

LONDON — Toilet experts say urinals may be consigned to history as part of measures to make public conveniences safe for the post-coronavirus world. Raymond Martin, managing director of the British Toilet Association, says business and governments need to adapt public toilets to make them infection-resistant, adding technology such as foot-operated flushes and sensor-activated taps. […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — “The Qur’an instructed Muslims to be righteous and benevolent to non-Muslims as long as they are peaceful and do not attack you or fight you. Muslims treated well the Jews who refused to enter Islam, starting with the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, until our time,” said Sheikh Mohammed […]

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — When the plane jolted violently, Mohammad Zubair thought it was turbulence. Then the pilot came on the intercom to warn that the landing could be “troublesome.” Moments later, the Pakistan International Airlines flight crashed into a crowded neighborhood near Karachi’s international airport, killing 97 people, all of whom are believed to […]

MICHIGAN (VINnews) — During a visit on Thursday to a Ford plant which formerly made cars but has now been refurbished to manufacture ventilators, President Donald Trump once again toured the facility without wearing a face mask—despite the company saying it has adopted the policy of the White House requiring everyone to wear a mask […]

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A passenger plane belonging to state-run Pakistan International Airlines crashed near the southern port city of Karachi on Friday, killing all 107 passengers and crew, the city’s mayor said. The aircraft crashed into a crowded neighborhood on the edge of the airport. Mayor Wasim Akhtar said at least five or six […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Lieutenant Yerushalayim Andela is used to people taking a double take when she says her name: “When I told my friends from the army my name for the first time, they thought I hadn’t understood the question, but in our community it is not so uncommon,” the Ethiopian-born Andela says in a […]