In Short

BerlinMeat eaters in the UK have been warned that they may face increased risk of contracting monkeypox.

DavosModerna CEO Stéphane Bancel responded to demands by EU health officials that contracts for Corona shots be amended as a result of unused supplies. Bancel complained that his company has had to "throw away" 30 million doses of Covid-19 jabs because "nobody wants them".

A strange coincidence: Soon after Elon Musk announced on Twitter that he would vote Republican in future because US Democrats had become the "party of division and hatred", sex allegations against the world's richest man suddenly surfaced.

BrusselsMore than 220 000 euros have flowed from the EU youth program Erasmus+ to so-called "Drag Queen" projects. This is shown by research by the German MEP Nikolaus Fest (AfD).

The HagueThe monkeypox virus has emerged in the Netherlands. Minister Kuipers has labeled it a group A-disease and vaccines are being deployed. Group A-diseases are infectious diseases for which the doctor must immediately report to the state if the diagnosis has been made. But are vaccines safe?

MiamiThe US state of Florida's second busiest airport will roll out high-tech facial recognition software at all gates. Critics fear that this step could erode personal privacy, according to the media portal LifeSiteNews.

WashingtonA news reporter summed up the hilarious explanation of the Biden administration's disinformation board which was "being shut down because of disinformation" during a White House press briefing this week.

RomeItaly has proposed a phased plan for a peaceful settlement in Ukraine, starting with a ceasefire and ending with a treaty on "disputed territories" and a general multilateral agreement on security guarantees in Europe.

BeijingHospitals in the United States are on high alert, due to the long lockdown in Shanghai which has caused a global shortage of chemicals used in medical imaging. Doctors are already prioritizing patients in critical condition to deal with dwindling supplies.

MariupolAn American mainstream “military analyst”, the four-star General Barry McCaffrey on Monday tweeted a sequence from a 2015 video game Arma 3 as the actual footage of Ukrainian forces downing a Russian aircraft.