Category: 4. World
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Nobel prize for medicine goes to US duo who discovered microRNA
US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday for the discovery of microRNA and its crucial role in how multicellular organisms grow and live. Their work helped explain how cells specialize and… Continue Reading
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UK universities home to large pro-Palestine protests on Oct 7
Pro-Palestine students took to UK campuses on Monday, October 7, staging walk-outs and protests at the same time as vigils were held for the Israeli victims of the Hamas massacre one year ago. Palestine groups at universities across the… Continue Reading
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Sweden’s Jews march to remember Oct. 7, hostages
The Jewish Community of Malmö, Sweden, held a march on Sunday afternoon to commemorate the victims of the Hamas terrorist events of October 7 and also to demand the release of the hostages still in captivity. Around 300 individuals… Continue Reading
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Kamala Harris, on popular podcast, rejects Republican’s ‘childless’ dig
US Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday rejected Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s suggestion the Democratic presidential candidate is not humble because she does not have biological children. Harris said the Arkansas governor’s… Continue Reading
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Tens of thousands attend UK Oct. 7 memorials
Tens of thousands attended October 7 memorials across the UK on Sunday to commemorate the victims of the Hamas attack, which approaches its one-year mark. The main vigil was held in Hyde Park, central London, with two others in Leeds and… Continue Reading
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Jimmy Carter reads the ‘Post’
In a revelation that has left the staff here at The Jerusalem Post delighted, former US president Jimmy Carter revealed that he regularly reads the Post. He did so, however, 14 years ago. In an interview on CBS’s 60 Minutes, which was… Continue Reading
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Pro-Palestinian groups demonstrate in Seattle on Oct.7
A crowd of more than 400 gathered at Seattle’s waterfront Saturday to mark a full year since the start of the war in Gaza, calling for a ceasefire and an end to US aid to Israel. At Pier 62, hundreds of people wore kaffiyehs and dozens held… Continue Reading
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Jews and Muslims unite in Baltimore to commemorate Oct.7 losses
The natural reaction would have been to recoil, from the sheer brutality of the Hamas attacks on Israel almost one year ago and the now widening war that it spawned. “That’s exactly what the haters want to happen, for us to become… Continue Reading
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FBI warns of potential attacks in US on October 7 anniversary
The anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 attacks may be a motivating factor for foreign terrorist organizations, violent extremists and hate crime perpetrators to threaten public safety, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and… Continue Reading
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Borrell accuses Israel of exacerbating conflict
Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, strongly criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for exacerbating the conflict and intentionally withholding aid from Gaza in an… Continue Reading