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The UN Drug Control Board (INCB) has notified the German government that its planned legalization of cannabis is not compatible with existing international regulations. The UN agency pointed out that the 1961 UN Drug Convention states that cannabis use is only permitted for medical and scientific purposes, the INCB stated in its annual report released on Tuesday. Another UN convention from 1988 stipulates that the cultivation, production and distribution of the drug for other purposes must be prohibited by law. In response to an enquiry in Berlin, the German Ministry of Health explained that t...
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The UN Drug Control Board (INCB) has notified the German government that its planned legalization of cannabis is not compatible with existing international regulations. The UN agency pointed out that the 1961 UN Drug Convention states that cannabis use is only permitted for medical and scientific purposes, the INCB stated in its annual report released on Tuesday. Another UN convention from 1988 stipulates that the cultivation, production and distribution of the drug for other purposes must be prohibited by law. The Vienna-based INCB consists of 13 experts. They monitor compliance with the glob...
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The Biden administration has reiterated that it will not send troops to Ukraine. "President Biden has been clear that the US will not send troops to fight in Ukraine," National Security Council Spokesperson Adrienne Watson said in Washington on Tuesday. Her remarks came after French President Emmanuel Macron had previously not ruled out the use of Western ground troops in Ukraine. A $60 billion US aid package for Ukraine is being held up in the US House of Representatives by Republican lawmakers. "We think the path to victory for Ukraine is for the House of Representatives to pass the national...
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Germany and Poland on Tuesday categorically ruled out sending their troops to Ukraine to help Kiev win its war against invading Russian forces. Their denial came after French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday night that deploying Western troops to Ukraine has not been "ruled out." Macron made the extraordinary comment at the conclusion of a meeting of European leaders and other Western officials in Paris, where they discussed bolstering military support for Ukraine as the full-scale Russian invasion goes into its third year. The military powers that back Kiev have long said that their own ...
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has categorically ruled out the deployment of ground troops from NATO states to Ukraine in its war against Russia. The chancellor opposed French President Emmanuel Macron's earlier comments that nothing was off the table to make sure Kiev wins the war, including the deployment of French troops. At a Ukraine aid conference on Monday involving 20 heads of state and prime ministers, it was discussed that what was agreed at the beginning of the war "also applies in future, namely that there will be no ground troops, no soldiers on Ukrainian soil sent there by European...
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The prime ministers of Poland and the Czech Republic have expressed scepticism about the idea of deploying Western ground troops in Ukraine a day after French President Emmanuel Macron said this could not be ruled out. Poland is not planning to send any soldiers, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday after a meeting with his Czech counterpart Petr Fiala in Prague. He said that the focus should be on providing Ukraine with maximum support in its military efforts against the Russian invasion. Tusk did not comment as to whether this view could change in the future under different circ...
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Since the price of a ton of raw cocoa on the London commmodity exchange recently climbed to a record high of just under €5,500 ($5,960), chocolate fans have reason to be alarmed. Just a year ago it was €2,500 and last month it was €4,000. "A kilo of cocoa is almost €3 more expensive than it was a year ago," a spokesman for the German chocolate manufacturer Ritter Sport said. "Anyone can work out for themselves what this means for the production costs of a 100-gram chocolate bar, which contains between 35% and 70% cocoa, but we are currently assessing the situation as a whole," he said. The com...
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Since the price of a ton of raw cocoa on the London commodity exchange recently climbed to a record high of just under €5,500 ($5,960), chocolate fans have reason to be alarmed. Just a year ago it was €2,500 and last month it was €4,000. "A kilo of cocoa is almost €3 more expensive than it was a year ago," a spokesman for the German chocolate manufacturer Ritter Sport said. "Anyone can work out for themselves what this means for the production costs of a 100-gram chocolate bar, which contains between 35% and 70% cocoa, but we are currently assessing the situation as a whole," he said. The comp...
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The head of the international Energy Agency (IEA), Fatih Birol, believes nuclear power is making "a strong comeback" around the world. This applies in France, Asia, North America, the Middle East and elsewhere, he told dpa ahead of the association's ministerial meeting in Paris on Tuesday. "After the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, many countries have understood the importance of nuclear together with renewables, homegrown electricity generation," he said. Birol struck a critical tone when it came to Germany's nuclear phase-out, which was completed last year: "If I was a government where there ...
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