Thursday, April 18, 2024

Politics

Israeli PM Tests Positive For COVID, Is Working From Home

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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s prime minister has tested positive for the coronavirus and is working from home, his office said Monday, after he held a series of in-person meetin...

Ukrainian Military Intel: Russia May Try To Split Up Country ‘Under Korean Scenario’

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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s military intelligence chief says that Russia could try to break Ukraine in two. Kyrylo Budanov said in remarks released by the Defense Ministry on Sund...

Madeleine Albright’s Role In Israeli-Palestinian Diplomacy Reverberates To This Day

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“Close the gates! Close the gates!” It sounds like lines ripped out of a movie, but it was Madeleine Albright running in her heels in the United States ambassador’s residence in Pa...

Zelenskyy: West Needs More Courage In Helping Ukraine Fight

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LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused the West of lacking courage as his country fights to stave off Russia's invasion, making an exasperated plea fo...

German Family Minister Anne Spiegel Visits Refugees From Odessa Childrens Home Hosted By Local Chabad

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Germany’s Family Minister Anne Spiegel, a member of the government cabinet, paid a special visit to the Chabad House in Berlin last week. The Chabad House is c...

Israel Hosts Foreign Ministers Of US, Bahrain, Morocco And Egypt At Historic Negev Summit

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid will host his counterparts from the US, UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and Egypt today, in a historic summit at the Negev kibbutz o...

DeSantis Signs Bill Targeting Explicit Books In Schools

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Saying Florida public schools are making sexually explicit books available to children, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Friday to give parents a...

Trump DC Hotel Gets Ok To Sell To Miami Investment Fund

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NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump's luxury hotel near the White House, which drew diplomats, lobbyists and plenty of controversy while he was president, received government approval Fri...

Biden Budget Seeks Minimum Tax On Households Worth $100M

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden intends to propose a minimum tax of 20% on households worth more than $100 million and cut projected budget deficits by more than $1 trillion ...

Biden Mistakenly Tells US Soldiers They’re Going to Ukraine?

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POLAND (VINnews) — On Friday, President Biden appeared to tell US soldiers that they are heading to Ukraine. In his latest blunder, Biden told US troops in Poland Friday that th...

Calling Putin A Butcher, Biden Says This Man Cannot Remain in Power

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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — President Joe Biden said Saturday that Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power,” dramatically escalating the rhetoric against the Russian leader after his brut...

Explainer: What Made North Korea Test Giant New ICBM?

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In firing an almost cartoonishly massive intercontinental ballistic missile into space, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has turned back the clock to the “fire and fury” days of 201...

Ivanka Facilitates One Million Meals for Ukraine Refugees, Donates Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars

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FLORIDA (VINnews) — Ivanka Trump, wife of renowned orthodox businessman Jared Kushner, has donated 1 million meals to Ukrainian refugees, according to a report quoted in the Washin...

Putin’s War In Ukraine Nearing Possibly More Dangerous Phase

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine is approaching a new, potentially more dangerous phase after a month of fighting has left Russian forces stalled by an o...

Israel To Host Top Arab Diplomats During Blinken’s Visit

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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel said Friday it would host the foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and Bahrain during U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit early...

REPORT: Jewish Businessman Paid Vandals to Paint Swastikas in Ukraine Before War

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UKRAINE (VINnews) — A Jewish oligarch reportedly paid people to paint swastikas around Ukraine, during the months preceding the Russian invasion. According to a report in Rollin...

OUTRAGEOUS: US Offering $1m To Exposers Of Human Rights Violations In Israel- Here’s Our Exposé

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — The US State Department has offered a grant of up to $987,654 for projects that include reporting human rights violations by Israel, according to a Jerusalem P...

McConnell Says He’ll Vote Against Jackson For Supreme Court

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell announced Thursday that he will vote against confirming Ketanji Brown Jackson, saying he “cannot and will not” support th...

Russian Ally Belarus Warns Of World War III

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LVIV, Ukraine — Belarus’ authoritarian leader has warned that a Polish proposal to deploy a Western peacekeeping force in Ukraine could trigger World War III. President Alexande...

NATO Helps Ukraine Prepare For Chemical Attack

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the military alliance is stepping up its defenses against chemical and nuclear weapons as concern mounts that Russia might use such wea...