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BudapestHungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (Fidesz) has offered illegal migrants open corridors through his country into the EU. "If they are good for you, take them," he said on Hungarian state radio.

BerlinThe AfD member of the Bundestag, Peter Boehringer, was interviewed on various current topics in Germany at the beginning of November. He spoke to German journalist Boris Reitschuster. Boehringer is a member of the German libertarian Friedrich August von Hayek society and a climate change critic.

ParisIs owning your own house a "dead end" and an "ecological nonsense"? Following her controversial statements a few weeks ago, French Housing Minister Emmanuelle Wargon withdrew her statements in radio and television interviews.

In one hospital in the US state of Michigan, patients are flooding into emergency rooms with “respiratory problems”, “blood clots” and... “heart conditions”.

Graphical analysis of data from the Official US Vaccine Side Effects Database (VAERS) found that a very small percentage of certain lot numbers of Pfizer and Moderna's Covid-19 vaccines were responsible for most side effects and deaths in the United States.

BerlinWhile Western Europe, and especially Germany, is experiencing skyrocketing energy prices, Russia can now play a strategic trump card with its gas reserves. To ease the energy crisis in Europe, Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin has ordered the gas valves to be opened again in November. 

BerlinNobel laureate in economics Joseph Eugen Stiglitz does not want Liberal FDP Christian Lindner to become German finance minister. Instead, he proposes Robert Habeck from the Green Party. The left-wing professor from the US has made himself known for many pieces of advice to Germany. But the government negotiations are instead about the US nuclear weapons.

Russia’s military said that it had agreed with Turkey to open two crossing points in the Idlib de-escalation zone in Syria and one near Aleppo.  This could be a precursor to opening humanitarian corridors to allow civilians and aid organizations to leave ahead of heavy battles.

MünsterThe so-called “booster shots” for employees at the University Clinic in Münster (UKM) were stopped on Friday. The reason: an unusually large number of side effects were noted. Just hours earlier, the hospital had announced that it would give all 11 000 employees the third vaccination.

TokyoThe head of the Tokyo Medical Association appeared on national television in September urging doctors to use Ivermectin and they listened. A little over a month later, Covid-19 is under control in Japan.