▪️The initiative “Enough is Enough” in Croatia has collected enough signatures to initiate a referendum on the abolition of the Covid certificate.
▪️Australia and the United Kingdom begin evacuating diplomats from Kiev, Ukraine.
▪️The UK High Court has ruled that Julian Assange of Wikileaks can appeal his extradition case to the UK Supreme Court.
▪️The air defenses of the United Arab Emirates hit several targets over Abu Dhabi, explosions are reported.
▪️Pope Benedict XVI admitted a false statement in the abuse report.
▪️Shooting on the university campus in Heidelberg, Germany. Two dead, including the suspect, several people were injured.
▪️The head of WHO said that the world can end the emergency situation related to Covid-19 already this year.
▪️The FBI searches the headquarters of the Covid-19 Control Center amid an investigation of a multimillion-dollar testing business. The company and its main laboratory, to which the federal government reimbursed more than $124 million for testing coronaviruses, are under investigation
▪️China is accused of interfering after the Australian Prime Minister’s WeChat account disappears.
▪️The Russian radars tracked 56 foreign aircraft that conducted aerial reconnaissance near the state borders of Russia over the past week, the newspaper “Krasnaya Zvezda” of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.
▪️A month-long travel ban has been lifted in the city of Xi’an, China, whose 13 million residents were starving due to the lockdown.
▪️An Australian study has shown that the Covid-19 pandemic can have an indirect negative impact on children’s mental well-being, academic results and physical health.
▪️In Scotland, the lowest incidence rates of Covid-19 among the unvaccinated were recorded, in contrast to the statistics for the “fully vaccinated”.
▪️The Japanese technology company Glory has launched a contactless payment system that recognizes the faces of customers in medical masks.
▪️A powerful snowfall hit the resort islands of Greece.
▪️Analyst Chuck Todd on NBC: “Biden is no longer considered competent and effective.”
▪️The Burlington Northern – Sante Fe Railway (BNSF) is preparing to go on strike. This will affect 17,000 workers across the country (USA) and further disrupt supply chain channels.
▪️The latest data from the UK show that the level of Covid infection among the triple-vaccinated (enhanced) is higher and growing faster than among the unvaccinated, in almost every age group.
▪️Singer Adele’s concert in Las Vegas has been canceled after half of her fully vaccinated team became infected with Covid-19.