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EU summit celebrates Merkel

Merkels vermutlich letzter EU-Gipfel

M. Night Shyamalan to become Berlinale jury president

M. Night Shyamalan wird Berlinale-Jurypräsident

Book Fair kicks off with Canada as guest of honour

Buchmesse mit Ehrengast Kanada gestartet

The Federal Government informs about the corona crisis

Bundespressekonferenz Corona

Way clear for coalition negotiations

Weg für Koalitionsverhandlungen frei

Next step towards forming a government

Nächster Schritt zur Regierungsbildung

Agreement to return Benin bronzes

Einigung zur Rückgabe der Benin-Bronzen

Scholz promotes global tax reform

Scholz wirbt für globale Steuerreform

Fight against global species extinction

Kampf gegen weltweites Artensterben

Talking about roots

They discovered a “massive gap in Germany’s media landscape as far as Muslim voices are concerned”. That’s what motivated a group of young creatives with a migration history to found the Datteltäter collective. Their aim is to open up new perspectives and provide food for thought with videos and other contributions about the lives of young Muslims in Germany. What’s more, they are sharing their skills with others via the Datteltäter Academy and enabling them to join in.

Access to the media world: The smartphone

Young, wild and colourful

He had no money and no training as a journalist. Despite this, political science student Benjamin Fredrich founded Katapult magazine in 2015 at the age of 27. The 100-page quarterly magazine provides statistics and social scientific studies in a variety of colourful charts and fascinating articles. The editors are very outspoken in their articles and very much in touch with the times. Meanwhile, Katapult has become Germany’s fastest growing magazine.

Samira El Ouassil

Thirst for knowledge

Astrophysics, nuclear energy, geoengineering – for most people these are not exactly leisure-time interests. The creators of these three video channels want to change this:

Menschen am Computer

Strong women in the media

Interviews that interest young people, tips on gender-sensitive language, intelligent podcasts and columns: Introducing three women journalists whose names and formats are worth noting.

Access to the media world: The smartphone

Tracking the spread of coronavirus in Germany

According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), in Germany there are currently 150.200 people infected with the coronavirus. 4.437.280 people have tested to be infected during the corona pandemic in Germany, (as of October 22th). According to the RKI, a total of 57.428.018 people were vaccinated (as of October 22th).

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The SPD, Greens and FDP want to form a government

In the wake of the Bundestag election on 26 September 2021, the SPD, Greens and FDP are hoping to form Germany’s future federal government. Almost a month after the election, the three parties are beginning official coalition negotiations to this end. The idea is for the alliance to be in place before Christmas. We present an overview of the initial decisions taken by the potential government partners and the sticking points that the negotiations will need to resolve over the next few weeks:

Bundestag

Coalition negotiations for traffic light alliance begin

Combating pandemics with data

Researchers all over the world agree that it is only a question of time before the next pandemic hits. It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of animal-borne viruses have the potential to cross over to humans one day.

SEEG coronavirus mission in Bolivia

Trial of former concentration camp secretary begins after escape

Hopes of protection against malaria

It is an undertaking that could end up protecting more than a billion people: those who live in areas around the world that are plagued by the tropical disease malaria. In 2019 alone, more than 229 million people contracted malaria – most of them in Africa, though South America and Asia are also affected.

International and interdisciplinary centre for research: working in Germany
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