Athens (dpa) – To allay people’s fears about possible side effects of the AstraZeneca vaccine, all ministers of the Cypriot government got publicly vaccinated with the controversial jab on Thursday. The action was broadcast by media directly from a vaccination centre in the island’s capital Nicosia. «The decisive thing is to get vaccinated, not which…

Paris (dpa) – Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral, badly damaged in a fire, will be rebuilt on schedule, according to French President Emmanuel Macron. «The commitment for 2024 will be kept,» the 43-year-old told Thursday’s Le Parisien – Aujourd’hui en France newspaper. In 2024, the French capital is also due to host the Summer Olympics. Exactly…

Karlsruhe, Germany (dpa) – A controversial rent cap to control soaring rents in the German capital Berlin has been scrapped by the country’s Constitutional Court. The legislation had been welcomed by tenants, but panned by developers and landlords since it came into force in February 2020. Since then, the rents of around 1.5 million flats…