In Short

BerlinThe AfD MPs prevented compulsory vaccination in Germany for the time being. Even if the Union and the FDP also contributed their bit, the AfD was the only parliamentary group to cheer and applaud loudly after the results of the vote in the Bundestag were announced. 

WashingtonThe US "climate tsar" John Kerry believes that the Russian operation in Ukraine creates carbon dioxide emissions and that the war takes focus away from the climate issue, which is more important than anything else.

BrusselsWhile the EU is obviously grasping at any straw to scare Hungary out of the EU community, it is apparently completely indifferent to corruption in other countries which it wants to welcome into the block. Ukraine comes to mind.

BrusselsThe Dutch government is working on preparations that will give the government more options if they go to war. Lockdowns, controlled entry and crackdowns on demonstrators are exercises for when the time comes, explained Forum for Democracy (FvD) MEP Marcel de Graaff in a video message.

New YorkWhat happened in Bucha was a false flag attack by the Kiev regime and its Western sponsors said Russia's Permanent Representative at the UN, Vassily Nebenzia.

New YorkRussia has demanded an extraordinary meeting of the UN Security Council over an incident in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, which they described as a false flag staged by Ukraine.

LondonBritain is the only country to have imposed sanctions on Russia's Gazprombank, through which payments for Russian natural gas are made. It is thus unable to pay for Russian gas after President Putin's decree that this commodity must be paid for in rubles.

MiamiFifteen players have already dropped out of the Miami Open, an unprecedented number for a major sports event.

KievUkraine is attempting to abandon the implementation of the Geneva Convention related to its prisoners of war.

BerlinGerman Development Minister Svenja Schulze (SPD) has called on citizens in Germany to eat less meat. "It would help the grain supply in developing and emerging countries in the medium and long term if we in the rich countries would eat less animal products," the social democrat explained her initiative.