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Former President Hosni Mubarak is buried in Egypt. He received a full-fledged military funeral. Mubarak died yesterday at the age of 91. He was the strong man of Egypt for years until he was deposed in 2011, during the Arab Spring. The funeral, complete with cannon fire and a parade, was broadcast live on the Egyptian state broadcaster. That broadcaster also showed images of a young…

The international community must prepare for a possible global epidemic, a pandemic. This said the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The sharp rise in the number of cases of the new coronavirus in Iran, Italy and South Korea in recent days is very worrying, according to the WHO chief. A WHO expert stressed that there is still no question of…

Former US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher denies that he has offered grace to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on behalf of President Donald Trump. According to the Assange defence, he would have offered that in exchange for an Assange statement that Russia had nothing to do with the publication of e-mails from the Democratic party. "I have never offered anything to Julian Assange on behalf…

Multi-billionaire Michael Bloomberg meets the requirements to participate on Wednesday in Nevada in a debate by Democrats who want to become president. According to his campaign team, the former mayor of New York wants to show that he is "the best candidate to beat Donald Trump." It is the first time Bloomberg can participate in such a debate with his rivals, which is broadcast on…

Germany votes against general speed limits on its " Highway ". An environmental committee had argued for this. Both the German Chamber (the Bundestag) and the German Senate (the Bundestag) rejected that speed limit. Unlimited speeds on German motorways remain a holy grail. Although there is already a speed limit on different sections of motorway in Germany, a national speed limit is not yet…

The popular WhatsApp messaging app has had 2 billion users since Wednesday. That is about a quarter of all people on earth. In February 2016, WhatsApp reached the 1 billion users limit. WhatsApp was started in 2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum. They had bought a brand new iPhone and thought that people could use an app to send messages to each other. Apple itself only provided Messages,…