Germany’s health minister warned Friday that the country is seeing a steady rise in COVID-19 cases as it goes into the fall and urged older people to get a second booster shot tweaked to protect against new variants
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Swedish officials don’t yet know if an undersea power cable that runs between Sweden and Poland was damaged when the Nord Stream gas pipelines ruptured in what Western officials suspect was an act of sabotage
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Bruno Le Maire is the French opposite number to chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng
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Ordinary residents describe being held in solitary confinement in occupied territories Moscow wants to absorb into Russia
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EU energy ministers reached an agreement on Friday on measures to reduce high energy prices during a council meeting in Brussels, the Czech EU Council presidency announced. The proposal includes a binding target to reduce electricity consumption, a cap on market revenues from low-cost electricity producers such as renewables and nuclear power plants and a […]
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Tiny and insidious, microalgae are multiplying along our coastlines. Although vital to our survival, some 200 out of 5,000 species studied are harmful to people and ecosystems. As global warming intensifies the problem, our oceans may be growing ever more toxic. The Down to Earth team investigates.
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Belgium, (Brussels Morning Newspaper) A strip of land nestled between two lovers, the Mediterranean and Lake Mariout. A port city caressed by a passing breeze and the seasonal winds of North Africa. A memory that lingers. A tall sentinel guiding ships arrives safely to its harbor: the Lighthouse of Alexandria, a spectacular feat of architecture […]
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Belgium, (Brussels Morning Newspaper) The European Commission decided to take Malta to the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) over the country’s golden passport scheme. The body stressed in a statement on Thursday that exchanging EU membership for investments or payments without a genuine link to the country is not in line with EU […]
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These are myths about the origin (including creation) of man. Anthropogonic myths are an integral part of cosmogonic myths. In anthropogonic myths, the origin of the entire human race and a certain people is not always clearly distinguishable (cf. the well-known identity of the name of the tribe and the word “man” in many traditions […]
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With Paris locked down over Passover, a rabbi started holding weekly talks over Zoom about Jewish texts. Thousands have tuned in to hear her reflections on death. “She is my rabbi,” said an atheist.
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