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Some 140 people who attended the vaccination center at Reims University Hospital in the town of Epernay, 130km northeast of Paris, erroneously received injections on Tuesday. The injections contained normal saline, which is a harmless solution of sodium chloride dissolved in water. It can be applied externally to clean wounds …

Holding signs reading “Freedom is non-negotiable” and “No health passports,” the demonstrators gathered in the capital on Saturday. Billed by its organizers as the “biggest street party London has ever seen,” the rally drew thousands of participants unhappy with the lingering restrictions on gatherings and movement, and opposed to the …

The name is rather apt given the Chinese word for the red planet is Huoxing (which means “the planet of fire”), but it is also a composite of two other Chinese words, Zhu (meaning “wish”) and Rong (meaning “integration and cooperation”). According to Wu Yanhua, deputy director of the CNSA, …

If you thought it was the furious fan backlash outside Stamford Bridge, the threat of players being kicked out of international competition, or the general media firestorm which forced Chelsea to pull out of the ill-fated Super League, you would be wrong. It was actually the Kremlin which played a …

“Pregnant people experienced the same side effects as others following vaccination,” the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Rochelle Walensky said at a White House briefing on Friday. “Importantly, no safety concerns were observed for people vaccinated in the third trimester or safety concerns for …

Musk spoke with Dr Peter Diamandis on Thursday in Cape Canaveral, Florida during a livestream event announcing the $100-million Carbon Removal project, aimed at helping to keep the Earth habitable while humanity seeks to become an interplanetary species. The conversation quickly turned to the potential future human colonization of the …

Speaking at a meeting about security, immigration, and interethnic relations in Russia’s Public Chamber, the head of Moscow Police’s migration department revealed that the capital will ban those who pose a threat to public security and public order for a long time. “The migration units made a decision not to …

The murder of the policewoman was an attack on the whole of France, the country’s Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Saturday. “Once again, the Republic has been attacked. Once again, the French state has been threatened. We will not let this go by,” Castex vowed, as he spoke to …

For weeks now, there have been warnings that Moscow’s deployment of tens of thousands of troops on the border with Ukraine could be a precursor to invasion and all-out war in Europe. While Russian officials have insisted the move was a response to increased activity by NATO forces, and Ukraine’s …

Boris Johnson is battling to keep the UK intact at next month’s local elections. Scottish and Welsh independence movements are firmly entrenched in the mainstream. Now another party wants to annex the northern part of England known as Northumbria, once an Anglo-Saxon kingdom.  The Northern Independence Party (NIP) was formed six months ago …