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Facebook, which owns platforms including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, rebranded as Meta on 28 October, 2021. In the Metaverse, there exists alternate digital realities where people work, play, and socialize. Also known as the AR Cloud, the Magicverse, the Spatial internet, or Live Maps, it is an immersive next-generation version of the internet that relies heavily on virtual reality technology.

ParisThe incidence rate has just exceeded an alert threshold in France. An increase in the spread of the novel Coronavirus is expected by Arnaud Fontanet, member of the Scientific Council and researcher at the Pasteur Institute.

LiègeMohammed Dahmane must answer for having fatally stabbed Mégane, 22, on March 9 2020 in Droixhe. He allegedly stabbed her "in the throat", a euphemism for beheading a victim, as we have seen in the case of French teacher Samuel Paty. The system media has been defending the perpetrator.

TallinnHungary's Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó (Fidesz) has criticized the EU's stance on the construction of border fences. When he heard how Brussels politicians opposed fences at the external borders, he asked himself “whether these people lived on another planet,” he said at a meeting of several countries in Estonia on Wednesday.

MITRE has been awarded huge security state contracts to pioneer invasive spy technology, including the implementation of digital vaccine passports.

The volcanic eruption that began on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of Africa may have started naturally, but then curious patterns of seismic activity arranged as a grid have been spotted. These may be sensors placed in a grid, but the pattern is quite unusual according to some watchers.

Nyköping Sweden Democratic regional politician Bertil Malmberg was convicted on October 7 in Nyköping District Court for incitement against ethnic groups. Malmberg said at a meeting of the council that South Sudanese have a low average IQ, citing UN figures.

BrusselsThere were 614 new hospital admissions last week and 55 percent of the cases were vaccinated, the Belgian Corona Commissioner Pedro Facon admitted this week at a Sciensano press conference. Sciensano is a research institute and the national public health institute of Belgium.

BerlinThe German Federal Statistical Office reported an excess mortality rate of 10 percent above the mean value for previous years in Germany. The mainstream is silent on this increase.

ParisIn 2020, 62 percent of victims of human trafficking or exploitation were French. This criminal endeavour is perpetrated by foreigners while they represent only 7,6 percent of the population.