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Americans now use more cannabis than tobacco. This is according to a Gallup poll: 16 percent of the general population regularly consumes marijuana, compared to 11 percent for tobacco. And according to the same survey, 50 percent of the surveyed residents have tried it at least once.

LondonBritain's Queen Elizabeth II passed away on Thursday. She lived to be 96 and ruled the United Kingdom for 70 years. Her eldest son Charles (73) is to succeed her. He is regarded as a vehement advocate of the globalist world restructuring through the “Great Reset”.

CernobbioItaly's right-wing camp, which is expected to have a good chance of winning the parliamentary elections on September 25, is making initial announcements that it will win the elections. Giorgia Meloni, head of the Fratelli d'Italia (FdI) and favorite in the right-wing conservative camp, has cautiously distanced herself from a basic Western doctrine and declared that "globalization without rules" has not worked.

LondonThe new British Prime Minister is Liz Truss. In an internal party vote, she prevailed over her competitor, former Finance Minister Rushi Sunak. Truss belongs to the "right" wing of the conservative Tories – and is likely to further escalate the current Ukraine war.

ViennaSeveral traffic lights in the Austrian capital Vienna stopped functioning due to a power outage, police reported.

MuensterThe case shocked not only the LGBTQ community: On the fringes of a gay parade in Germany, a trans man (25) was beaten so brutally that he later died in hospital.

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.

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.