Large fire erupts at luxury Dubai hotel
A large fire erupted at a luxury Dubai hotel on Wednesday, forcing guests and staff to leave and sending...
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EU estimates up to 80% of population has had COVID
The European Commission said that between 60% and 80% of the EU population was estimated to have been infected...
Belarus eyes wider death penalty use after anti-war railway sabotage
Belarus moved on Wednesday to make attempted acts of terrorism punishable by the death penalty after activists tried to...
Hundreds of yeshiva students join IDF
Hundreds of new recruits from many preperatory yeshivot in Israel were inducted this week. The yeshivot, which are part...
Guarneri violin predicted to fetch over $10M at auction
A near three-century-old instrument lauded as a Leonardo da Vinci of violins could fetch as much as 10 million...
Kellogg's sues UK over new sugar content rules
US food company Kellogg's K.N is taking the British government to court over new rules that would stop some...
China reports first case of H3N8 bird flu in humans
China has recorded its first human infection with the H3N8 strain of bird flu, but the risk of its...
Russia bars entry to 287 British MPs over 'Russophobic hysteria'
Russia on Wednesday imposed personal restrictions on 287 British members of parliament and banned them from entering the country,...
Education Ministry shelves high school finals in humanities
Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton presented Tuesday a reform for high school matriculation dealing a blow to humanities studies, where finals...
Beijing enforces lockdowns, expands COVID-19 mass testing
Police and new fencing restricted who could leave a locked-down area in Beijing on Tuesday as authorities in the...