Buenos AiresArgentinian reporter Carlos Ferrara collapsed during a live news broadcast on Argentina’s Channel 9 on Thursday during a news insert from a Covid testing center in the city of Buenos Aires.
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Cleaning lady unplugs fridge with Pfizer vials
AngersBy mistake, a cleaning lady in France unplugged a fridge containing 1 056 vials of vaccine stored in one of the vaccination centers managed by the municipality of Angers.
What did the President of the European Parliament really die of?
BrusselsDavid Sassoli passed away this week. According to news reports he died after a "serious complication due to a dysfunction of the immune system". But what caused the complication?
Swiss secret service warns against Chinese technical support for Swiss public television
BernThe Swiss radio and television broadcaster (SRF) cannot get its technical problems under control and therefore had to call in help from China. This has become an explosive matter in view of the danger of espionage, military sources said.
Fabienne Schlumpf diagnosed with myocarditis
The star runner Fabienne Schlumpf announced the news in a post on Instagram. Schlumpf confirmed to a Swiss newspaper that she has been triple vaccinated and that she has not had Covid.
Rumours persist that Brigitte Macron is a man
ParisAccording to a researcher, Brigitte Macron was born as Jean-Michel Trogneux, a man. But president Macron's wife said she was being targeted by a transphobic rumor and she would file a complaint.
FDA gets 8 months, not 75 years, to divulge Pfizer’s vaccine safety data
AustinA US federal judge has given the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) only eight months — not the 75 years it requested — to release all documents related to the licensing of Pfizer’s Comirnaty Covid vaccine.
Human traffickers confirm NGO contacts with criminal organisations
The Italian public prosecutor's office is investigating NGOs who illegally bring people from Africa to Europe by ship. Statements from these smugglers now underpin the Italian investigations that some NGO ships are also in close contact with human traffickers from North Africa.
Kazakhstan: Eyewitnesses say unrest is being coordinated
AlmatyThe riots in Almaty were long planned and professionally coordinated. This was reported by Uzbek journalist and expert of the region Uzulbek Ergashev in a live broadcast of the Soloviev Live channel broadcast on YouTube.
Guadeloupe: Hospital director kidnapped by anti vaccine activists, exfiltrated by police
Pointe-à Pitre The administrative building of the University Hospital of Guadeloupe was besieged on January 4 and the management “sequestered” in their offices by anti-vaccine activists, according to the chief of the establishment Gérard Cotellon, who had to be exfiltrated by the police.