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ON THE GO India records 314,835 COVID cases — world’s highest single-day count India has recorded more than 300,000 cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours — making it the highest single-day tally in the world.Advertisement According to the country’s ministry of... Newspaper Headlines: 45 killed in Zamfara, and FG’s town-hall meeting adopts state police Attacks on citizens, police and army formations by gunmen dominated the headlines of Nigerian newspapers. The senate...

The IOM is an agency of the United Nations. The Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM), according to the agency, gathers and analyses data to disseminate critical multi-layered information on the mobility, vulnerabilities, and needs of displaced and mobile populations that enable decision-makers and responders to provide these populations with better context-specific assistance. The figure compiled is aside other scores of unreported cases of displacement as IOM uses direct observation and a broad ...

199 Jeje Jouly Touk, a hairdresser who was forced to switch to a dog groomer due to COVID-19 restrictions on beauty salons, brushes a dog at her shop in the Israeli northern city of Acre. (REUTERS/ Ali Sawafta) Acre, Israel, April 7 Her tool of work has not changed - a pair of scissors - but hairdresser Jeje Jouly Touk has switched customers from humans to dogs. COVID-19 restrictions on beauty salons left her jobless, so she became a professional dog groomer, a relatively rare occupation for ...

Israel revs up to reopen for tourism feature Israel revs up to reopen for tourism Until then, work on your bucket list. Or, as Sara Salansky, a senior official in Israel’s Ministry of Tourism, says: Our slogan is “Dream now, travel later.” (March 15, 2021 / JNS) Bring us your tired, your down-clad and pandemic-weary souls yearning to breathe … a lungful of Israeli air. With apologies to Emma Lazarus and her poem “The New Colossus” that adorns the Statue of Liberty, for many, that ye...

Attractive. Vaccinated. Accessible. Visit Israel Orit Farkash-Hacohen Orit Farkash-Hacohen, Minister of Tourism and Minister of Strategic Affairs, Israel The country is home to some of the famous landmarks in the world The Abraham Accords signed between the UAE and Israel are truly historic. In a very short time, talks of normalisation became a reality, and working relations between our countries exist in all realms of life. While governments sign treaties - people are the ones who build lastin...

Ten fabulous fortresses in Israel feature Ten fabulous fortresses in Israel With its palaces hanging off a cliff in the desert to knights’ halls and imposing castles, Israel is the place to imagine yourself in shining armor. By Naama Barak (February 25, 2021 / Israel21C) When you think of Israel, castles aren’t the first thing that comes to mind, which is a shame considering that the country boasts some truly magnificent ones. Some date back thousands of years, while others are more recent....

Follow No more excuses, please.   Not for the vicious racism and neo-fascism of Itamar Ben Gvir and the band of thugs that he has gathered around him. Not for Benjamin Netanyahu, who, in a despicable display of political narcissism, stage-managed a merger of right-wing parties that will bring Ben Gvir and his racist cronies into the Knesset.   Not for AIPAC and the American Jewish Committee, which were critical of Ben Gvir in the past, but, in this Israeli election campaign, have chosen to ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Olalekan Adetayo and Chima Azubuike THE President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Sunday regretted that Nigerians had shed enough blood over issues that could have been peacefully resolved. According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President spoke while reacting to the violence in Gombe State arising from the Billiri chieftaincy tussle. The statement was titled, ‘Billiri chieftaincy tussle: President...

As my 30 th birthday was approaching, it became clear that restaurants would not yet be open and my usual preferred way to celebrate – with friends, over good food, wine, and music – was becoming seemingly impossible. As someone who has lived across the street from Jerusalem’s Machane Yehuda market for the past number of years, I have become a regular at Chef Asaf Granit’s restaurants, particularly his quieter and classier joint, Dekel 3. Lucky for me, one of the chef’s left the hustl...

Michael Solomonov is Sharing Stories and Recipes The Philadelphia-based chef brings it home to Pittsburgh for the eighth episode of his live-streaming show “Bringing Israel Home.” February 19, 2021 PHOTOS BY MICHAEL PERSICO Like most of us, Michael Solomonov, the Philadelphia-based chef with Pittsburgh roots, misses traveling. He’s longing to return to Israel, where he came of age and later found his culinary voice. He typically visits the country several times every year. Rather than dw...