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Israel News Israel in talks with Pfizer after it announces major progress on coronavirus vaccine
Israel is in advanced stages of negotiations to secure the supply of a coronavirus vaccine with Pfizer Inc., who made the groundbreaking revelation on Monday that its experimental vaccine was more than 90 percent effective in preventing COVID-19 based on initial data. Currently, Israel only has agreements with two drug companies developing coronavirus vaccines: Moderna,…
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Fast Forward Florida Man Sentenced To Prison For Anti-Semitic Death Threats Against Sanders
(Reuters) – A Florida man was sentenced to 15 months in prison on Friday for threatening to behead U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, federal prosecutors said. The man, 58-year-old Robert Pratersch of Kissimmee, in September 2018 left three voicemail messages at Sanders’ Vermont office where he made anti-Semitic threats and threatened to…
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Fast Forward France’s Oldest Auschwitz Survivor Dies At 101
PARIS (Reuters) – Henriette Cohen, France’s oldest survivor of Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz concentration camp, has died. She was 101. Cohen stayed silent about the horrors she lived through at the death camp in Poland for four decades before finding the strength to describe it to younger generations. She said it was necessary to speak out…
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Fast Forward U.S. Ambassador Says Israel Has The Right To Annex Part Of West Bank
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The U.S. ambassador to Israel did not rule out an Israeli move to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, land that the Palestinians seek for a state, in an interview with the New York Times published on Saturday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in the run-up to an April election…
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Fast Forward This German Heiress’s Views On Nazi Slave Labor Are About What You’d Expect
BERLIN (Reuters) – The heiress of a German biscuits empire has stirred outrage after she appeared to play down the hardship suffered by dozens of people forced to work at the family business under Nazi rule. Verena Bahlsen, whose father owns the Bahlsen company that makes some of Germany’s most famous biscuits, told the mass-selling…
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Fast Forward Measles Outbreak Hits ‘Completely Avoidable’ 25-Year High
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The number of measles cases in the United States has reached a 25-year peak, propelled by the spread of misinformation about the vaccine that can prevent the disease, federal health officials said on Monday. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 704 cases as of April 26, a 1.3…
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Fast Forward Trump Approved $2M Payment To North Korea For Otto Warmbier’s ‘Care’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump approved payment of a $2 million bill presented by North Korea to cover its care of comatose American Otto Warmbier, a college student who died shortly after being returned home from 17 months in a North Korean prison, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. The Post said an invoice…
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Fast Forward New York City Tickets 12 For Defying Measles Vaccination Order
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City has issued civil summonses to 12 people it said were not complying with a mandatory measles vaccination order as the number of recorded cases in the city’s worst outbreak since 1991 rose to 390, according to data released on Wednesday. The city’s outbreak of the highly contagious and…
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