According to US Defense Secretary Mark Esper, the United States is planning to withdraw around 6,400 troops from Germany, and to transfer another 5,600 from Germany to other European countries.US President Donald Trump had previously expressed his intention to withdraw troops from Germany. Esper noted that the plan will cost the Pentagon billions of dollars to implement, which will be paid off over several years.

Brazil set a daily record Wednesday for both confirmed cases of coronavirus and related deaths, with 70,074 new cases and 1,595 fatalities, Health Ministry data showed.Brazil has now registered more than 2.5 million confirmed cases of the virus and 90,134 deaths since the pandemic began.

A 59-year-old man was moderately injured when a truck overturned an exit ramp from Highway 5 to Highway 20 near Glilot.Magen David Adom paramedics evacuated him to Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.

A 50-year-old pedestrian was killed after being hit by a car In Highway 4 near the Shomrat junction In Wednesday night.Magen David Adom paramedics who were called to the scene pronounced him dead.

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The British Community Security Trust (CST) has recorded the third-highest number of anti-Semitic incidents for the first six months of a year, despite the coronavirus pandemic leading to a slight decrease in overall incidents.According to the figures, outlined in the CST"s new half-yearly report and quoted by the UK Jewish Chronicle, there were 789 recorded incidents of anti-Semitism between January and June 2020 &mdash a drop of 13 per cent compared to the first six months of 2019.

The European Union plans to transfer 23 million Euros to the Palestinian Authority within the next few days, in order to enable the PA to pay its salaries for June to more than 43,000 employees working in the health and education sectors, the Maariv newspaper reports, citing EU official Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff.PA Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh has announced that the PA will continue to refuse to accept tax transfers from Israel, due to its plan to "annex" parts of Judea and Samaria, "in order to put a stop to any manner of financial or security cooperation with the occupation."

Interviewed In Reshet Bet, Minister of Intelligence Eli Cohen (Likud) said that he does not believe that economists who support the idea of a single-year budget are unbiased, and that he prefers to look for objective opinions In the matter."No Ine can predict when the coronavirus epidemic will end," he said, "and it's quite possible that the situation will improve significantly in 2021. I have no doubt that those economists who support a single-year budget are from the left wing - I prefer to take advice from objective officials."On the government's decision not to publish any report In the foiling of attacks in the north, Cohen said, "Israel almost never publishes anything that could reveal its operational capacities. All that we can derive from recent events is that Israel will never allow Iran to establish itself In Israel's northern border."