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March 15 is the date which many use for the start of the Syrian uprising in 2011. For many years, the war in Syria was a steady feature of western media; however, in recent years the fighting has stopped, the Geneva peace process has not produced results, and some countries have begun sending Syrian refugees back home.

ParisThe tsunami responsible for the accident at the Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan, seriously damaged the image of this energy. Nevertheless, the French are mostly in favour of nuclear as the energy of the future, according to a poll conducted for EDF, France's multinational electric utility company.

MöllnOn Thursday, March 4, there was an attempted murder on a male teacher (44) at a language school in Mölln, a town in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Under urgent suspicion is a 32-year-old Syrian who is said to have attended the school in the past.

ZurichThe result of the referendum on the prohibition of wearing an Islamic niqab or full-face veil in Switzerland, obscured an interesting piece of news about another federal plebiscite in this country which has gone almost completely unnoticed: The canton of Zurich voted on Sunday to state nationalities in police reports.

RomeLega boss Matteo Salvini wants to create a new parliamentary group in the EU Parliament. "We are working on the creation of a new European group, I am in contact with the Poles, the Hungarians," said the former Italian interior minister on Tuesday in an interview with journalist Annalisa Chirico. This may be seen as a challenge to Giorgia Meloni, president of the European Conservatives and Reformists group (ECR).

The US states of Arizona and Montana are taking legal action to block new Biden administration immigration regulations. The crisis at the southern US border started brewing at the end of 2020 because the human and drug trafficking cartels expected President Joe Biden to have a “hands-off” attitude.

LübeckThe 74-year-old Prof. Dr. Winfried Stöcker, born in Upper Lusatia, is a summa cum laude doctor of medicine, successful entrepreneur and billionaire. And he is also the developer of a vaccine against the ominous Coronavirus. This vaccine is apparently not only highly effective and well tolerated, but also easy to manufacture. His invention could end the state of emergency in Germany within a very short time.

StockholmIn future, it will be forbidden in Sweden to participate in organizations that are designated as "racist". The committee working on the issue will propose this in April, according to news outlet TT. The Prime Minister has already called the second largest opposition party, the Sweden Democrats (SD), racist.

BerlinThe so-called "Tiergarten Murder Trial", which is currently taking place before the Berlin Court of Appeal, is about an alleged contract murder of a "Georgian asylum seeker" in the Kleiner Tiergarten in Berlin on August 23, 2019.

BernOn Sunday, March 7, the Swiss population was called upon to give its opinion on the ban on the full Islamic veil in public. It was an extremely tight ballot, which saw supporters of the ban narrowly prevail.