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Half Of Vienna Secondary School Students Are Now Muslim As Cultural Tensions Grow In Classrooms Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix news, Almost half of students in Vienna’s public middle schools are now Muslim, according to new figures from the Vienna Education Directorate, marking the latest sign of a rapid demographic and cultural shift inside the Austrian capital’s classrooms. The data, cited by Heute, shows that Muslim students account for 49.4 percent of children in Vienna’s public middle schools — just short of an absolute majority. Across the city’s public compulsory schools more...

CIA Official Confirms Agency Flip-Flopped Over COVID-19 Origins Over Five-Day Period Over the span of five days in 2021, the CIA abruptly changed its opinion on the origins of COVID-19 from a laboratory to neutral, a newly released document confirms.  The seal of the Central Intelligence Agency at the entrance of the agency headquarters in McLean, Va., on Sept. 24, 2022. Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters Originally, CIA analysts concluded that COVID-19 likely came from a high-level laboratory in Wuhan, China located near where the first cases were detected in late 2019, senior CIA officer...

Prosecutors In Huawei Criminal Trial Allege Company 'Cultivated Culture Of Crime And Corruption' Authored by Nicholas Zifcak via The Epoch Times, NEW YORK CITY - Prosecutors in the criminal trial against Chinese telecoms firm Huawei alleged that the company used lies, theft, cover-up, and a criminal conspiracy in its efforts to dominate the global telecommunications market. A worker stands in the window of a Huawei store in a commercial area in Beijing on Nov. 5, 2024. Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images In opening remarks at a federal court in the Brooklyn borough of...