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THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Housing shortages, the environment, health care, education. Dutch voters have plenty of issues to consider in next week's election but one towers over all others: the COVID-19 pandemic.

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An employee of the Municipal Health Service GGD administers a Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to a health care worker at a coronavirus vaccination facility in Houten, Netherlands, in January. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong) BRUSSELS (AFP) — The EU’s planned digital “green pass” showing the status of vaccinated people will probably only take into account jabs authorized by the bloc’s medicines regulator, a top official said on Friday. The European Medicines Agency has so far authorized four C...

1,056 shares Ahlam Tamimi recalls her pleasure at early reports of the death toll in the Sbarro bombing (MEMRI screenshot) Interpol has reportedly dropped an international warrant for the Jordanian terrorist who orchestrated the 2001 Sbarro pizzeria bombing in Jerusalem that killed 15 people.   In a letter dated March 8 published in Arabic-language media, Interpol said Ahlam Tamimi was no longer “subject to an Interpol notice,” without further elaborating. Tamimi also appeared to hav...

316 shares ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda is seen through a plexiglass lectern in the court room of the International Criminal Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, September 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool) Israel faces a dilemma: should it argue its case to International Criminal Court investigators looking into alleged war crimes in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, or refuse to cooperate? Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a vocal critic of the ICC, declared Israel was “unde...

323 shares Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz attends a party conference in Tel Aviv on January 14, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90) The chairman of the left-wing Meretz party said Saturday that while he was pained by the International Criminal Court’s opening of a war crimes probe against Israel, “there were grounds for the decision,” sparking immediate uproar from other lawmakers, mostly on the right. “People tell us, ‘You want Israel to be brought before the Hague.’ I don’t want...

US vice president condemns ICC decision to investigate Israel for war crimes, congratulates premier for successful vaccine drive, PM's office says

Long-planned referendum to ban certain face coverings takes on new meaning during time of global pandemic

Vice President Kamala Harris, in a call with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday, reaffirmed U.S. opposition to an International Criminal Court probe of possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories, the White House said. The call, the first between the two since Harris and President Joe Biden took