Alan Lorenz

The European Commission, "in close consultation with Member States", will propose an immediate halt to air traffic with southern Africa due to a corona mutation detected there (B.1.1.529); Commission President Ursula von der Leyen tweeted…
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According to the European Commission, it must become more difficult to trick voters with sneaky, tailor-made political advertising. From now on, political advertisements must state who is behind it and how much has been paid for it, if it…
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Russian opponent Alexei Navalny has filed a new complaint about the circumstances of his detention in a Russian penal camp. According to documents from a court in the Vladimir region east of Moscow, it is already the fourth time…
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The British prime minister and three former prime ministers attended the funeral of parliamentarian David Amess, stabbed to death in October. Boris Johnson, Theresa May, David Cameron and John Major sat in the front row of the church.…
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Ericsson acquires US cloud company Vonage. It pays $6.2 billion for that. Vonage was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in the US state of New Jersey. The company, led by Rory Read, generated $1.4 billion in sales last year with…
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One of the most dangerous families of malware ever has returned. It concerns the Emotet botnet, which was removed from one million computers earlier this year due to intervention by the Dutch and German police. But, unfortunately, the…
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Iraq collects hundreds of compatriots from Belarus. They return voluntarily because they fail to enter the European Union at the heavily guarded border with Poland. An Iraqi Airways plane takes an estimated 430 migrants, mostly…
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On Wednesday morning, a man died in a tornado in Sicily, the emergency services on the Italian island report. The man in his fifties went outside because he feared storm damage to his house in the municipality of Modica and was…
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Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar has declared himself a candidate in his country's presidential election next month. In any case, he is up against Saif al-Islam, a son of the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed ten years ago.…
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Travel organizations and airlines that cooperate in transferring asylum seekers via Belarus to the European Union must fear European sanctions. This threatens, among others, the EU's foreign affairs chief and the German foreign minister.…
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