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PragueGerman Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) shows very little respect for her own voters. At a discussion event in Prague, she declared that despite possible protests in Germany about the consequences of harsh sanctions, she would not change her policy. After all, she promised that to the Ukrainian people. Easing sanctions against Russia was not an option.

HoniaraThis is a major defeat for the US – and a clear win for China. Around three months after the conclusion of a security agreement with China, the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific have now closed their ports to foreign naval units. The island republic has revised its rules for accepting foreign ships as a result of the pact with China.

PhiladelphiaUS President Joe Biden sharply criticized his predecessor Donald Trump and all Republicans in a speech. Trump's forces are "determined to lead this country into the past," he said at a campaign event in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, against a peculiar red and black backdrop.

BrusselsPolicy decisions by the EU are leading to increased energy prices. A leaked strategy report by a large German company, showed how politics and business are deliberately influencing prices on the energy market – to the detriment of end consumers.

BudapestA huge political scandal is causing a stir in Hungary: A foundation run by critics of Hungary's leader Viktor Orbán and prominent American regime-change leftists provided significant financial support to the Hungarian opposition in the run-up to the last parliamentary elections in April in order to ensure a change of government in Hungary is brought about in Budapest. But foreign donations to Hungarian parties are forbidden.

CologneMore and more German celebrities are distancing themselves from the gender madness in language. Just recently, the German cabaret artist Harald Schmidt explained that he basically does not read texts with (gender) asterisks. Now the writer and singer-songwriter Heinz Rudolf Kunze has followed suit.

JohannesburgA black chant calling for the killing of "Boers" –  white South Africans – is not considered a hate crime or racist speech. This has now been decided by the Supreme Court in South Africa.

BerlinThe German government's "queer" commissioner, Sven Lehmann (Greens), has presented a catalog of measures against "queer hostility". Lehmann sent a relevant draft to associations and ministries of the federal government for further coordination.

Mikhail Gorbachev was the first President of the Soviet Union and the last Soviet leader. He was the best of the younger generation of Communist Party members who understood, like US President Ronald Reagan, the futility of the Cold War and the needless threat of nuclear Armageddon.

A spectacular action with a signal effect: a handful of activists from the Identitarians, including the Austrian spokesman for the movement, Martin Sellner, symbolically occupied the terminal of the Russian-German Baltic Sea pipeline Nord Stream 2 in Lubmin on Monday, thereby emphasizing the demand to open the pipeline.