The strict lockdown in Israel easing today with home confinement ending for millions of people. But coronavirus restrictions closing schools and shopping centers remain in place.
The liberal "Haaretz" newspaper reporting that Orthodox Jewish religious schools are open in violation of those orders and the more conservative "Israel National News" noting that shopping centers are back in operation in many cases...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
"So for your health I ask you-do not come tomorrow"
Those words in a video from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asking his supporters to stay away from the court hearing tomorrow as his corruption trial moves into its key phase with the presentation of the evidence against him.
Netanyahu says he will be vindicated in the end "in the face of the fraudulent and false cases against me"...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
IRAN AND THE UNITED STATES STAKING OUT POSITIONS ON THE NUCLEAR ISSUE WITH IRAN'S SUPREME LEADRR AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI SAYING SANCTIONS MUST BE LIFTED BEFORE IRAN WILL RETURN TO THE JCPOA NUCLEAR AGREEMENT OF 2015...PRESS TV IRAN
US PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN SAYS THE US WILL NOT LIFT SANCTIONS UNTIL THE URANIUM ENRICHMENT IN VIOLATION OF THE JCPOA ENDS...YNET NEWS ISRAEL
MORE THAN 100 ARE MISSING AND AT LEAST SEVEN DEAD IN THE WAKE OF A TORRENT OF WATER UNLEASHED BY THE BURSTING OF A GLACIER IN THE HIMALAYA MOUNTAINS OF INDIA....CNN (VIDEO EMBEDDED)
The pipe-laying for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline resumed this weekend in Danish waters. The project to bring natural gas from Russia to Germany dogged by US sanctions...TASS
POLITICS IN THE USA THE REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE OF WYOMING VOTING TO CENSURE CONGRESSWOMAN LIZ CHENEY FOR SUPPORTING THE IMPEACHMENT OF FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP....NEWSWEEK
ELECTION DAY IN ECUADOR TODAY WITH SOCIALIST ANDRES ARAUZ AND BANKER GUILLERMO LASSO THE TOP CANDIDATES. A THIRD CANDIDATE REPRESENTING INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ALSO POLLING MORE THAN TEN PERCENT WITH SOME OTHER MINOR CANDIDATES. FOR A CANDIDATE TO WIN THE ELECTION OUTRIGHT EITHER A 50 PERCENT PLUS ONE VOTE IS NEEDED OR A 40 PERCENT WITH A TEN PERCENT LEAD VOTE...PRESS TV IRAN....TONIGHT RESULTS IN AND THE PROJECTION OF A RUNOFF BETWEEN SOCIALIST ANDRES ARAUZ AND INDIGENOUS CANDIDATE YAKU PEREZ...BBC NEWS
Thousands protesting across Myanmar today in opposition to the military takeover of the country. The protesters demanding the release of the country's democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi...BBC NEWS
Italian politics with the list of parties willing to support a "technocratic government" growing. It started with traditional "Left" and "Right" forces like the mainstream left-posturing Democratic Party and Viva Italia and the right-posturing Forza Italia.
Now the League of the Right and the Five Star Movement of the Left, the larger newcomer parties in Italy's parliament offering conditional support for a "technocratic" government led by former European Central Bank president Mario Draghi.
Italy has spent itself even deeper into the hole financially over the coronavirus and will have to work out a financial plan with European Union support...POLITICO EU
Cuba's government is saying it will now allow private businesses to operate in most industries...BBC NEWS
FORMER REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN CHARLIE DENT OF PENNSYLVANIA, A PROMINENT "MODERATE" AND CRITIC OF FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP, TALKING ABOUT THE NOTION OF NEW POLITICAL PARTY...THE INDEPENDENT UK
AUTHORITIES IN HAITI SAY THEY FOILED A PLOT TO KILL THE COUNTRY'S PRESIDENT AND OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT....DIGITAL JOURNAL
In Libya there is a new interim government following the conflict between the Government of National Accord in the West and the Libyan National Army in the East. The country's new interim Prime Minister will now try to form a government and win a vote of confidence in the country's parliament...DAILY SABAH TURKEY
George Shultz, the Secretary of State for President Ronald Reagan with a record of service to other Republican Presidents, is dead at the age of 100...GEORGE P. SHULTZ WIKIPEDIA
OUR COVID-19 STATS FROM WORLDOMETERS TONIGHT SHOWING 89,691 NEW POSITIVE TESTS IN THE USA, DOWN FROM 107,816 LAST SUNDAY.
WORLDWIDE THIS SUNDAY 345,735 NEW POSITIVE TESTS FOR THE CORONAVIRUS COMPARED TO 395,465 LAST SUNDAY.
And that's the way it really is Sunday February 7th, 2021 Day 329 of the Dictatorship of COVID-19, Day 329 of America and the World held hostage.
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