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BerlinThe “BNT162b2” vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTec, is a so-called mRNA vaccine hurriedly developed and brought onto the market with conditional approval. Above all, this vaccine is fundamentally different from all other vaccines used to date.

TripoliAccording to President of the Russian Foundation for Protecting National Values Alexander Malkevich, Russian sociologists Maxim Shugaley and Samer Sueifan have finally been released after a long captivity in Libya. This information is confirmed by Mikhail Bogdanov, the Russian president's special representative for the Middle East and Africa and deputy foreign minister.

In the United States democracy was destroyed by democracy. Read on and you will learn what I mean.

Since June 5, 2017, Saudi Arabia ordered a land, air, and sea blockade on Qatar and severed diplomatic ties, along with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt, and Bahrain. The self-styled “Anti-Terror Quartet” issued Doha 13 demands.

BerlinThe White Helmet leader in Syria, Khalid al-Saleh, has been allowed to enter Germany after a two-and-a-half-year tug-of-war between the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Foreign Ministry — despite strong suspicions that he may be linked to terrorism.

AustinThe Texas lawsuit is aimed at delaying the appointment of presidential electors from Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. Missouri joined a group of 17 states on Wednesday to file a brief with the Supreme Court in support of Texas.

BerlinIn Germany, the differences in performance in math and science between students with and without a migration background are particularly alarming. In the natural sciences children with foreign roots are 60 points behind.

ParisFrench politician and mathematician Cédric Villani serves as deputy in the lower house of the French parliament. He says "a very big social divide, with very big gaps between the pupils, and a deep malaise of the teachers" have been contributing to huge problems in mathematical competency.

While the market in sports betting and online gambling has expended world-wide, legal uncertainty in Germany has had a dampening effect.

IthacaIn the United States, Cornell University students can use their “person of color” status to be exempt from the university's requirement to get a flu shot.