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A sharp rise in Covid Delta variant cases in Israel shows the need for caution when ending restrictions, says Dr Asher Salmon, deputy director general of the country’s Ministry of Health. Israel had led the way with its vaccine programme, and was able to lift many restrictions, but there is now a surge in new…

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is putting US President Joe Biden and America’s allies and partners to the test, Evelyn Farkas, a former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia has said. She told BBC World News the Russian leader was sabre-rattling and carrying out “very dangerous” deployments. “That, plus all the…

LJ Rich looks at the best of the week’s technology news stories including: Tesla head Elon Musk sells about $5bn (£3.7bn) of shares in the electric car manufacturer An original Apple computer, built by co-founders Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, sells at auction for $400,000 A robot that can autonomously give injections without needles has…

Prince Albert II of Monaco – one of the world’s richest royals – has weighed in on the controversial interview that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle gave to Oprah Winfrey. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex had opened up to the US interviewer about a range of personal topics, including racism and mental health. But…

There is a bigger context to the current hostilities between Israel and Gaza, the political analyst and former spokesperson for the Palestinian Authority, Nour Odeh, has said. She told BBC World News: “We have to look at the wider picture. We cannot just say that Hamas needs to stop firing rockets. We have to ask…

At least 45 people were killed and some 150 were injured in a crush at a crowded Orthodox Jewish festival in Israel. The Lag B’Omer festival near Mount Meron had attracted tens of thousands of pilgrims. Eyewitness Menachem Engel, who was attending the festival, said he was about 100m away from where the incident happened….