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World’s biggest reinsurer will no longer offer insurance or investment for new oil and gas developments

By Peter Schulte / October 17, 2022

The German reinsurance group Munich Re will no longer invest in or insure the planning, financing, construction or operation of new oil and gasfields, new oil-fired power plants or developments in “midstream” oil infrastructure, beginning in April 2023.

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Scientists hail autoimmune disease therapy breakthrough

By Peter Schulte / September 16, 2022

A new treatment from Friedrich-Alexander University in Germany drove the disease into remission in all of its five patients, who have now been off lupus medication for between three and 17 months.