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Pictures are put together on a pavement beside candles during the ‘Jewish Community Vigil’ for Israel in London on Oct. 9, 2023. AP Photo/Kin Cheung by James Forest, UMass Lowell Hamas, the Gaza-based Palestinian militant group that mounted a deadly surprise attack on Israel that has killed – at last count – at least 1,200 … Continued
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\t While no one claimed responsibility for the attack, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif pointed the finger at Israel, calling the killing an act of ``\"state terror.''
\t ``Terrorists murdered an eminent Iranian scientist today. This cowardice _ with serious indications of Israeli role _ shows desperate warmongering of perpetrators,'' Zarif wrote on Twitter.
By Tia Goldenberg Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long cultivated a symbiotic relationship with the country's ultra-Orthodox parties, doling out generous subsidies and leaving their insular way of life unperturbed in exchange for ironclad backing that has helped crown him Israel's longest serving leader. Now, with the coronavirus pandemic raging and the Jewish High Holidays approaching, Netanyahu finds himself caught between his ultra-Orthodox partners and the need to drive down surging infection rates. This balancing act could plunge the country into a new lockdown ahead of the holidays, which begin next week. […]
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World leaders congratulated US President-elect Joe Biden on his victory but some have noted there are challenges ahead.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered his congratulations on Twitter and said he had a \"long and warm\" personal relationship with Biden for nearly 40 years.
But he also thanks incumbent President Donald Trump for the \"friendship\" he showed to Israel. He also credited Trump for recognising Jerusalem as the Israeli capital and the Golan, and for pulling out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
Netanyahu said Trump was Israel's strongest-ever ally in the White House, but a Biden administration could be a set back for Netanyahu, according to experts.
Meanwhile, a Hamas spokesman urged and end to a \"US policy of bias\" towards Israel.
\"We call on the US President-elect Joe Biden to make a historic correction of this unjust American policy against the Palestinian people.\"
In India, there were more colourful celebrations, as Vice-President elect Kamala Harris has roots there.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave his \"heartiest congratulations\" to Harris, saying her success was \"breathtaking\" and a matter of immense pride for all Indian-Americans.
In Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison, like much of the world, said he looked forward to growing relationships.
\"I look forward to forging a great partnership in the spirit of the relationships that have always existed between prime ministers of Australia and presidents of the United States.
\"I particularly look forward to this with President-elect Biden because he comes to this relationship with a deep experience and a deep history. \"
But Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said it was too soon to offer his congratulations. referring to Trump's legal challenges against the election result.
\"We will wait for all legal issues to be resolved. We don't want to be imprudent.\"
\"President Trump has been very respectful with us and we have reached very good agreements, and we thank him because he has not interfered and has respected us,\" said the left-wing populist.
Trump sparked anger in 2016 after he branded Mexican migrants \"rapists\" and drug dealers and vowed to build a wall across the southern US border.
But Lopez Obrador has managed to maintain cordial relations with Trump and even visited him in July on his first foreign trip since taking office.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard vowed Saturday there would be dangerous consequences for the United Arab Emirates after it announced a historic deal with Israel to open up diplomatic relations. The UAE is the first Gulf Arab state to do so and only the third Arab nation to establish normalized relations with Israel, Iran's regional archenemy. The Iranian Guard called the deal a 'shameful' agreement and an 'evil action' that was underwritten by the U.S., according to the group's statement on a website it runs, Sepah News. The Guard warned that the deal with Israel will set […]
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(CNN) — Americans are flocking to their favorite restaurants again, especially those that have set up outdoor and indoor seating that follows the rules of social distancing.
Given that you can't wear a mask while eating, is that enough to protect you from Covid-19? CNN asked infectious disease and indoor environmental quality experts to weigh in.
Is it safer to eat indoors or outdoors at a restaurant?
\"Eating outside is less risky than eating inside, if everybody is six feet apart and the wait staff are all wearing masks. That keeps the risk as low as it can be,\" said infectious disease expert Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville.
\"Studies have shown that when you're just talking, the larger [respiratory] droplets don't really travel farther than three to six feet,\" said Lindsey Marr, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech, who has been studying Covid-19 transmission.
What if people walk by your table while you're eating outside?
\"We think that that's not a danger or if it is a very, very small one,\" Schaffner said. \"Because in order for Covid-19 transmission to be at all efficient, what you want is at least 15 minutes of contact face-to-face in an enclosed environment.
\"So that risk should be very low, but those passers-by should be masked,\" he added.
It's always going to be less dangerous outside, where the virus can dissipate into the air, say experts. To illustrate that, imagine for a moment that the virus is the smoke from a cigarette.
\"If you put somebody smoking inside a room, the first puff puts a little bit of smoke out. The second puff puts a little bit more out, and it builds on the first one,\" said Erin Bromage, an associate professor of biology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
\"The smoke in that room builds up unless you have good filtration and good air exchange,\" said Bromage, a CNN contributor who wrote a blog post in early May -- \"The Risks -- Know Them -- Avoid Them,\" that got over 13 million views in one week.
However, Bromage said, when you're outside and someone takes a puff, you get a blast of smoke but then it's over. You get another blast and it's over.
\"It's not an accumulating threat, like we see inside,\" he said.
Do 6-foot spacing and partitions protect you indoors?
\"You have to have good ventilation in that bar or restaurant,\" she added. \"And since I can't wear a mask while I'm eating, I'm just avoiding indoor restaurants until this is over.\"
As should anyone in high-risk categories, experts suggested.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently added to its growing list of those who may be hardest hit by Covid-19: pregnant women, the elderly, people with heart, lung or kidney disease, diabetes, immune disorders, people with moderate to severe asthma and those with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher, which includes 42% of
[Monitor] President Museveni on Sunday congratulated US President-elect Joe Biden, expressing hopes of unity and cooperation following four years of explosive Donald Trump diplomacy.
President Donald Trump announced via Twitter early Friday morning that he and his wife, First Lady Melania Trump , have tested positive for the coronavirus. Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2020 The shocking news comes just hours after the White House confirmed presidential aide Hope Hicks, who has traveled extensively with the first couple this week, had tested positive and was experiencing symptoms. The President's diagnosis raises serious concerns for his own safety, as well as that of his family and close advisors and anyone with whom he's had close contact recently. The news also casts great uncertainty over the presidential election just a month before Election Day. And it highlights the severity of the global COVID-19 pandemic, which has hit the United States harder than nearly every other country. Just days...
As the war between Israel and Hamas reached its third day, the regional and international communities stepped up their response on Monday.
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia Today, in a display of unity, the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), representing the Black Press of America, issued a resolute […]
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Yotam Gidron has done us all a huge service by putting Israel and Africa back on the agenda.
Sub-Saharan Africa allows Israel to triangulate its commercial, security and longer-term political interests; it can sell its specialized security technologies and consolidate links with evangelical churches that are linked to pro-Zionist churches in the United States.
African leaders are always on the lookout for more efficient technologies of repression, and insofar as the \"war on terror\" gave them a political cover story, Israel stepped in as a supplier unhindered by human rights legislation.
Israel's security strategy for Africa isn't an updated version of Cold War-style ideological alignment but rather a fusion of the principles of transactional politics--the transnational political marketplace--with specialist service provision drawn from its counter-terror assemblage.
This is where Israel steps in: in Washington's eyes, a country that recognizes Israel and cooperates with it cannot be a state sponsor of terror.
By TIA GOLDENBERG and ARON HELLER Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday announced a new countrywide lockdown will be imposed amid a stubborn surge in coronavirus cases, with schools and parts of the economy expected to shut down in a bid to bring down infection rates. Beginning Friday, the start of the Jewish High Holiday season, schools, restaurants, malls and hotels will shut down, among other businesses, and Israelis will face restrictions on movement and on gatherings. 'Our goal is to stop the increase (in cases) and lower morbidity,' Netanyahu said in a nationally […]
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