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Even mild cases of Covid-19 affect memory & attention – study

Moderate symptoms still cause long-term cognitive consequences, Oxford University researchers reveal Scientists from Britain’s Oxford University have revealed that people who have had mild Covid-19 and didn’t suffer from other widespread ‘long Covid’ symptoms in daily life still show degraded attention and memory for six to nine months after infection.  Participants of the latest study […]

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Young blood: How Russian students become researchers even before they graduate

Russia’s ‘Priority 2030’ aims at transforming universities and increasing the competitiveness of the entire system of Russian higher education. In June 2021, Russia’s Ministry of Science and Higher Education offered the Priority 2030 academic leadership program to the nation’s universities. More than 100 Russian higher education centers joined and will receive at least 100 million […]

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Even fully vaccinated, you’re anti-vax if you oppose mandates, Australian minister declares

People who oppose Covid-19 vaccine mandates are “anti-vaxxers,” pure and simple, Northern Territory Chief Minister Michael Gunner said during a heated press conference, noting more positive cases in his state were “expected.” Gunner made it more than clear during a press conference in which he was asked if his hardline stance on vaccine mandates might […]

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German state allows ALL businesses to ban unvaxxed customers – even for groceries & other essentials

The German state of Hesse has become the first to allow businesses to deny the unvaccinated access even to basic necessities, setting a troubling precedent as its neighbors wrestle with protests against vaccination mandates. Hessian supermarkets have been granted permission to deny the unvaccinated the right to buy food and other essentials, the state chancellery […]

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Mali summons French envoy after Macron says Malian govt. ‘isn’t even a government’ in a row over troops withdrawal

Mali has summoned its French ambassador following “unfriendly and derogatory” remarks by the French president, who argued that Bamako lacks legitimacy to criticize the withdrawal of the French troops from the country. A diplomatic row raging between France and Mali deepened further on Tuesday after the Malian Foreign Ministry summoned the French envoy to express […]

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Not stopping at ‘provocative military activity,’ US demands China halt even ‘diplomatic & economic pressure’ towards Taiwan

In a threatening statement on Beijing’s “destabilizing” military moves that was published on Sunday, the US State Department warned China against even diplomatically and economically pressuring Taiwan in its own interests. In the statement, United States spokesperson and former CIA intelligence officer Ned Price warned China that the US was “very concerned” by its “provocative […]