Nornickel lead an open discussion with Indigenous peoples

The FPIC procedure, first used in Russia by the Norilsk Nickel mining company, has entered a new stage. A second round of consultations with residents of the Arctic workers' village of Tukhard (in the Taimyr Dolgano-Nenets District of the Krasnoyarsk Territory) took place, the company reported in a...
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What happened outside room 5112 at the Regal Airport Hotel in Hong Kong

Little is yet known about the new Sars-CoV-2 variant, which apparently originated in South Africa. What is becoming...

USA invites Taiwan to online summit for democracy

Amid strained relations with China, the U.S. government has invited Taiwan to its online democracy summit. A list released...

Number of Corona outbreaks in schools increases significantly

In schools, there are currently again significantly more frequent Corona outbreaks. That's according to the Robert Koch...

Berlin education administration continues to reject mandatory testing in daycare centers

Despite the high incidence and calls for better protection for children against Covid 19 disease, the Berlin education...

Corona Management: hands off children's sports

In Bavaria at least, the past week has already shown what the current Corona situation in children's and youth sports can...

Traffic light parties tighten planned corona measures

SPD candidate for chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced that the traffic light parties want to take all the necessary...

Health »

New Corona super variant in Southern Africa

The spread of a new, potentially very dangerous variant of the coronavirus in southern Africa has caused international...

Federal states are preparing to relocate dozen of intensive care patients

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In order to avoid bottlenecks in intensive medical treatment, several dozen patients are to be transferred from the...
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Saxony faces possible lockdown

Saxony's seven-day incidence is over 1000 - the highest since the pandemic began. Covid-19 intensive care patients were...

What you need to know about the third vaccination

"Booster vaccination is the completely wrong term in my eyes," says Professor Carsten Watzl. The Secretary-General of the...

Sale of forged vaccination certificates

On Friday afternoon, there was a police raid on a pharmacy in Schwabing. The accusation: sale of forged vaccination...

Wave of colds in daycare centers

In the second fall without Oktoberfest, many thought Munich would be spared the traditional Wiesn flu wave. But now it's...

Politics »

The FPIC procedure of UN principles applied for the very first time in Russia

Residents of the Tukhard settlement located in the Russian part of the Arctic (in the Taimyr Dolgano-Nenets District of...

Masked opponent rule partly triggers conflicts at polling station

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Voters in Germany were required to take their ballot papers, identification documents and masks with them to the polls -...
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Biden plans punitive tariffs with exceptions

In the trade war with China, the U.S. administration of President Joe Biden wants to maintain the punitive tariffs imposed...
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Afghanistan needs help most now

International donor conferences for Afghanistan have been held time and again, for example last November in Geneva, when...

Number of deployable nuclear weapons on the rise

The peace research institute Sipri has identified a worrying trend in the development of nuclear weapons. Overall, the...
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Trump demands corona reparations from China

In his first major public appearance since leaving the White House in January, former U.S. President Donald Trump attacked...

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Vision of Norilsk 2035 has been shaped more clearly

Three Russian organizations have become winners of the Norilsk 2035 competition, organizers say.  Two companies from Moscow...

Corona drops rents in retail

The Corona pandemic has caused rents in the German retail sector to collapse for new leases. Especially in the expensive...
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Transarterial chemoembolization treatment and benefits

Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) is one of the best methods of cancer treatment in terms of effectiveness and...
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What the pension increase means for intergenerational equity

After a zero increase for pensioners this year, the consequences of the Corona crisis will now ensure a sharp rise in...

Inflation in Germany rises to 4.5 percent

There is no end to the rise in consumer prices in Germany. Above all, the price rally for gasoline and diesel has...

Google parent Alphabet increases sales by 41 percent

Google parent Alphabet continues to benefit enormously from the digitalization of life in the Corona pandemic. In the past...

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Google reduces the error rate of its quantum computer

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Nobody's perfect - this is especially true for Google's quantum computer "Sycamore," which two years ago was able to solve...

Healthy reefs survive coral bleaching from heat waves

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Relatively recently, a heat wave in the southern summer of 2016/2017 triggered coral bleaching with devastating damage...
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The brown dog tick opens up habitats in Germany

Temperatures around 25 degrees Celsius, dry and preferably a dog in the household. If the brown dog tick had to post a...
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Climate protection: great goals, but no way to get there

Helmut Kohl already knew how to make politics with climate targets. In 1995, shortly before a UN climate conference in...
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Horses and donkeys revive a desert biotope

A few feral horses and donkeys scratch the sand with their hooves in the Mojave Desert until they reach the groundwater at...
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Pathogens, the invisible historians

Before Covid-19, it was the world's deadliest disease. In 2018, the World Health Organization estimated ten million people...

Arts »

UNESCO open exhibition "The World in Faces" at its Paris headquarters

On Thursday, July 8, at the headquarters of UNESCO (The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)...

German U21 wins European Football Championship

The German U-21 national team fulfilled a dream in Ljubljana on Sunday evening that not even its notoriously optimistic...
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German basketball players qualify for Olympics

The German basketball players have fulfilled their dream of the Olympics with an impressive energetic performance. The...

Konstantin Ishkhanov: "Phenomenal" MPO Concert at Gastieg

This May sees the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO) visit Munich to perform at the city's world-famous Gastieg, a...

Non-GamStop casinos - a sense of freedom

Never has there been a greater range of exciting casino games available for people to play with a touch of a button....
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Positive Corona test in the DFB national team

Ahead of the World Cup qualifier against Iceland, there is a corona case within the German national soccer team. This was...

Travel »

How to double the vacation time in 2022

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Employees in Germany have an average of 28.3 vacation days per year. But if you're smart about it, you can take up to 63...

Mallorca attracts tourists with corona insurance

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This summer, it's a matter of survival for Mallorca, Europe's most visited vacation island. In the last Corona year, the...
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Italy starts vacation season despite Corona

"Book now, we look forward to seeing you!" With these words, Italy's Prime Minister Mario Draghi is now courting tourists....
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Holiday returns: these are the new rules of entry

For vacation returnees and other entrants to Germany, uniform Corona rules will apply nationwide starting this Thursday....
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The curfew also applies to BER Airport

For a good two weeks now, many counties and cities have been enforcing a nighttime curfew when the incidence exceeds 100....
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Munich top 10 tourist questions and answers

While the pandemic has hit hard, Germany like all other nations has taken measures to stave off its spread. Bavaria's...

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Post Corona Blues

Like many husbands I have a pretty small suitcase. Well, small, anyway. All the better in this day and age, I hear you...

A Shot in the Arm

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Until a few minutes ago, I thought the letters VHS meant Video Home System, one of the two competing video systems of my...
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Facing the Future

In the olden days, before coronavirus, robbers used to wear masks when they made their way into banks to make off with the...
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V is for Vaccine

My arm has often felt like a pincushion. A good example of this was during the SARS epidemic in 2002, when both myself and...
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Corona policy highlights Germany weakness

When faced with the threat of a new pandemic, ministers huddled together and etched ut their plans. The resolution they...

Reimagining diplomacy in the post-COVID world: an indian perspective

We enter 2021, hoping to put the COVID-19 pandemic behind us. While each society has dealt with it uniquely, global...