Austrian migration researcher Gerald Knaus called for a more effective deployment of Ukrainian refugees in more European Union countries.more

The German Federal Statistics Office (Destatis) announced better-than-expected figures for the German economy in the third quarter on Friday.more

Research led by the University of Sydney has developed a material that mimics the complex structure of naturally occurring blood vessels.more

According to Bloomberg, the sudden rise in the European exports of home appliances to the countries neighboring Russia may be helping Moscow's war effort.more

The 43-year-old Pole was arrested on the racetrack in Imola on the basis of an arrest warrant issued for him, the local daily "Il Resto del Carlino" reported today.more

"It is not the coronavirus that has weakened, but we are stronger thanks to vaccination," said Professor Fabrizio Pregliasco, a virologist and researcher at the University of Milan, who said the pandemic could continue for 2-3 years.more

At least 151 people were killed and dozens more hurt in an apparent crowd surge at packed Halloween festivities in the South Korean capital of Seoul, local officials say.more

German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach announced that his ministry is planning to change the law on the cultivation and possession of marijuana. Preliminary draft is that it will be legal to possess up to 30 grams of cannabis. The cultivation and sale of marijuana to adults for recreational purposes is to be strictly controlled.more

Three top executives were fired from Twitter after Elon Musk, considered the richest man in the world, became the owner of the social networking platform, the Washington Post reported yesterday. The company's general legal advisor was also dismissed from work.more

The Pentagon and US intelligence agencies believe many of the unexplained aerial phenomena seen in recent years include airborne debris, weather balloons and Chinese spy drones, the New York Times reported. A report on this is due to be presented to Congress on Monday.more

"There are tougher years ahead of us, harsh years." - announced German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in an address to the nation at Berlin's Bellevue Palace.more

The number of Dutch people is growing, with 17.8 million now living in the Netherlands, reports the Netherlands Bureau of Statistics (CBS). The increase is almost entirely due to migration, primarily from Ukraine, India and Turkey.more

"This is a fascinating discovery of great clinical significance: two common viruses - influenza and RSV - can combine to form a hybrid virus," says Dr. Pawel Grzesiowski, citing research published by Nature Microbiology.more

Chinese police have opened their own "police stations" in almost every country in the world where the country's larger community is located, according to a report by the Madrid-based NGO "Safeguard Defenders", published yesterday by the "ABC" daily.more

U.S. President Joe Biden expressed skepticism over Russian President Vladimir Putin's assertion yesterday that he has no intention of using nuclear weapons in Ukraine.more

Right-wing extremists have infiltrated Germany's armed forces, but while politicians talk about the need to remove them from the military, in practice state institutions have been tardy in doing so, writes Berlin-based journalist Peter Kuras in the British weekly The Economist.more

Elon Musk finalized his acquisition of Twitter yesterday. One of his first moves was to fire top executives whom he accused of misleading him about the number of spam accounts on the platform.more

The new leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) includes Xi Jinping's own confidants. None of them are likely to be willing to tell the leader if he makes a mistake, assessed Harvard University's Prof. Anthony Saich, describing this as "Putin's syndrome."more

Nearly a quarter of Canada's population, 23 percent, are immigrants, according to data released Wednesday by Statistics Canada. The last time Canada had such a high percentage of immigrants was a hundred years ago.more

The Russians, mobilized to the front a week ago, arrive in the occupied territories of the Zaporizhia oblast in southern Ukraine. In Russia, prisoners are still recruited for war, convicted of murder and drug offenses, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army reported.more

The US Navy and the US Army successfully conducted a hypersonic weapon test yesterday, Reuters reported, citing a US Navy announcement.more

Australia will send 70 soldiers to Great Britain to help train Ukrainian troops there and send 30 more armored vehicles to Ukraine, Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles reported yesterday on ABC television.more

For termination of pregnancy, the woman will no longer need the opinion of two doctors. Before the end of the twelfth week of pregnancy, an abortion can be performed at the woman's request, according to the amendment to the abortion law, which was approved yesterday by the Finnish parliament.more

There are Chinese police stations in the Netherlands, which are used, inter alia, to put pressure on the Chinese people who are critical of the communist government, the media are alarming. According to the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the posts are illegal.more

Americans are increasingly less optimistic about the future of youth. If in 2019 60 percent believed that young people would have a better life than their parents, today it is only 42 percent.more