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Germany has declared South Africa a “virus variant area,” the country’s health minister Jens Spahn wrote on Twitter. It means “airlines will only be allowed to transport Germans” from the country. All arrivals would be required to quarantine for 14 days, even if they are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 or …

Santa is gay. But you knew that already, right? How could he not be in this, the modern era, the age of woke? I admit, I’d always presumed there was a Mrs Claus back home somewhere in the Arctic Circle, helping Santa all year long pack presents alongside his elves …

In a statement on Friday morning, Alexander Chupriyan, the acting Minister of Emergency Situations, told reporters that an employee of the Listvyazhnaya mine had been found in the wake of Russia’s worst mining disaster in a decade. “Our team has just come across another miner, alive,” he said. The man …

In a tweet on Friday, EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said the bloc would be taking emergency action.  “The Commission will propose, in close coordination with Member States, to activate the emergency brake to stop air travel from the southern African region due to the variant of concern …

Speaking on Thursday, Ekaterine Tikaradze, remarked that “there is no country as special as Georgia in the world – we are unique, and based on that, we will have two green [Covid-19] passes.” One of these, she said, will last “indefinitely” for use domestically. According to the minister, Georgians, unlike …

Prime Minister Scott Morrison acknowledged that a Chinese surveillance ship spent some time near his country’s coast earlier this year, saying on Friday that the vessel underscored a “very serious situation” in the Indo-Pacific region, even while adding that Beijing did not run afoul of any maritime laws in the …

The plant’s operator Tokyo Electric (TEPCO) is planning to reinforce the wall as early as at the start of December, NHK said on Friday, adding that the company has also been considering other measures to contain the toxic water. TEPCO didn’t immediately confirm the details of the report when approached …

While mainstream Western media have been spending their time trolling about a “missing” Chinese tennis player who is not actually missing, hardly any coverage has gone toward NATO’s announcement that if the new German government does not continue to allow US nuclear weapons on its soil, those weapons will be relocated …

Is there ever going to be a time when the left will stop pretending that it doesn’t completely dominate the North American and Western establishment, and admit that its policies aren’t now totally mainstream? Speaking last week at an environmental protest on Vancouver Island in the capital city of Canada’s …

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the deployment on Thursday, saying that a detachment of some 75 federal police officers, 43 troops and at least five diplomats are heading to the islands “to provide stability and security” and help local authorities guard important infrastructure. Their mission is expected to last …