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 […]

ROME — The head of Italy’s pharmacological agency says there is little data about the effectiveness of the anti-malaria drug promoted by U.S. President Donald Trump to treat coronavirus. Dr. Nicola Magrini offered a briefing on the various trials the Italian Pharmacological Agency had approved during the coronavirus crisis, including one involving hydroxychloroquine. Magrini says […]

TEHRAN (JNS) – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a cartoon this week showing the “final solution” of the State of Israel, or annihilation similar to what the Nazis attempted to do to the European Jewish population during World War II and the Holocaust. The caption, with the words “Palestine will be free, The […]

TEL AVIV (VINnews) — A Chareidi Giyores who has been living in Israel for over 20 years and converted to Judaism in Rav Nissim Karelitz’s Beis Din is under threat of deportation from Israel together with her 10 year-old son who studies in a Talmud Torah in Tel Aviv , despite the fact that both […]

LONDON (AP) — Ben Gee carries the coronavirus all over London. A bicycle courier, Gee zips from the city’s hospitals and clinics with medical samples of the virus, taking them to laboratories for processing. Gee faces a two-fold fear: exposure to the coronavirus and whether he will have a job after the outbreak. The British […]