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In the high-profile murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, one of the suspects was arrested in France. The man was arrested at an airport near Paris when he was about to board a plane to Saudi Arabia, French media reported. It is Khaled Aedh al-Otaibi, a former member of the royal guard. He is alleged to have been involved in the violent death in October 2018 of Khashoggi, who was…

Belarus has responded to the international community's latest round of sanctions with its own travel ban and import restrictions. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Minsk announced this on Monday. For example, the country will ban the import of several goods from states that apply the "illegitimate anti-Belarusian sanctions," it said. It will also impose restrictions on EU and UK…

Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer becomes the new Chancellor and party chairman of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). The party board decided unanimously on Friday. 49-year-old Nehammer succeeds his party colleague Alexander Schallenberg, who threw in the towel as chancellor on Thursday after barely a month and a half. The musical chairs were set in motion when former Chancellor…

Where the booster vaccinations in most EU countries have yet to get underway, Germany is quickly continuing with the extra vaccinations. In the past day, almost 823,000 Germans received such a boost. That is the highest number since the Robert Koch Institut, the German RIVM, started sharing vaccination figures. In total, almost 11.3 million Germans have now received a booster shot. That…

The US authorities want to oblige international travellers to the United States to take a corona test at least one day before departure, officials report. Currently, vaccinated travellers to the US require a negative test three days before departure. However, the test can now be no more than a day old for unvaccinated Americans and others who live permanently in the US. Other unvaccinated…

NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins, 33, will soon make history as the first black woman to go to the International Space Station. Together with three other crew members, she will leave on a mission next year and will therefore live and work in the ISS for six months. Watskin, who joined NASA's astronaut corps in 2017, will take on the role of mission specialist for NASA's SpaceX Crew-4,…