Protest against vaccination passports in Brussels turned into riots

Unidentified gunman shoots at Heidelberg University in Germany, injuring several people

In 2021 there were three times as many coup attempts in the world

There were seven coup attempts around the world in 2021. This is a record since 2000. For comparison, in 2015-2020 there were not more than two coup attempts annually in the world, writes Meduza

📍The day before, a military coup took place in Burkina Faso. Residents welcomed the actions of the military

Joe Biden called Fox News journalist a "a stupid son of a bitch"

Biden assumed the microphones were already off when the reporter tried to ask a question about inflation.

📍Biden later called the reporter and said there was nothing personal in what he said. The reporter said he took it sympathetically.

Truckers from all over the country came to the Canadian capital today to protest against restrictions

They were joined by tractor drivers and farmers.

Denmark lifts all anti-coveting restrictions

The Danish government has decided to lift restrictions against the coronavirus despite the high number of infections in the country. Copenhagen justified this step by the high percentage of people vaccinated against COVID-19.

⚡️The British prime minister ordered the military to prepare for deployment to Europe

"I have ordered our armed forces to prepare for deployment to Europe next week so that we can support our NATO allies on land, at sea and in the air," Boris Johnson

📍 Johnson's proposals include doubling 1,150 British troops in Eastern Europe, as well as sending "defense weapons" to Estonia.

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U.S. police were able to arrest 60 drug dealers using gay dating apps

The operation to catch drug dealers was called "Swipe Left if You Need Meth" and began in July 2021. Investigators registered on three queer dating apps - Grindr, Scruff and Taimi - and tried to buy methamphetamine, fentanyl, LSD, ecstasy, marijuana and cocaine from suspected sellers.

American actress Whoopi Goldberg is accused of racism and has already been suspended by ABC News

Viewers were outraged by the actress' words about the Holocaust:

"Let's be honest. The Holocaust is not about race. No, it's not about race [...] It's about the inhumanity of some to others.

Goldberg has already apologized three times for her words.

A ship with 2 million tons of oil exploded and sank off the coast of Nigeria

The ship belonged to FPSO Trinity Spirit, an oil production company.

For the first time in the history of Facebook, the number of active users decreased

Meta's stock plummeted more than 20 percent as earnings fell.
Over the past three months, the average number of daily active users fell to 1.929 billion, down from 1.930 billion in the third quarter.

⚡️The leader of the Islamic State group has been eliminated - The White House

Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Quraishi killed by U.S. military in Idlib, Syria

The strike was pinpointed and there were no other casualties.

China has joined Russia in opposing further Nato expansion as the two countries move closer together in the face of Western pressure.

Moscow and Beijing issued a statement showcasing their agreement on a raft of issues during a visit by Russia's Vladimir Putin for the Winter Olympics.
Mr Putin claims Western powers are using the Nato defence alliance to undermine Russia.
It comes amid tensions over Ukraine, which he denies planning to invade.

Some 100,000 Russian troops remain at the border with Ukraine, which is a former Soviet republic. Mr Putin, who has written that Russians and Ukrainians are "one nation", has demanded that Ukraine be barred from joining Nato.

While the lengthy joint statement did not refer directly to Ukraine, the two countries accused Nato of espousing a Cold War ideology.

Can Indian microblogging app Koo beat Twitter?

That's certainly the goal, according to co-founder Mayank Bidawatka, who says Koo expects to surpass Twitter's 25 million-strong user base in India this year.
It had touched 20 million downloads in India by the end of 2021.

"We are now available in 10 languages, including English. This year we'd like to cover all of India's 22 official languages," he told the BBC at the company's headquarters in the southern city of Bangalore, a tech hub.