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Innovation needed in mental health treatment
Andrew Robb and Tania de Jong Struggling with your mental health confronts you. Depression, for its part, can overwhelm you with false anxieties and meaningless, torturous…
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The Border Crisis Doesn’t Pause For A Pandemic
Residents of Arivaca in southern Arizona are fighting to save migrants’ lives — and scrambling to protect their own — as the coronavirus sweeps the nation.…
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Five Obvious Lessons from COVID-19
As Covid-19 is ravaging the world and hundreds and thousands of people around the world are dying every day, both optimism and pessimism have become the…
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How India lost a gas pipeline to China
The deal to import gas from Myanmar via Bangladesh failed due to political reasons. Mahendra P Lama A tripartite ministerial meeting between India, Myanmar and Bangladesh…
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Are Democracies or Autocracies Better Placed to Fight Pandemics?
South Korea’s handling of the coronavirus epidemic has been acknowledged globally. Even before its first confirmed case of the coronavirus, South Korea had begun to develop…
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Black Lives Matter Wants to End Police Brutality. History Suggests It Will Go Much Further
HUGE NUMBERS OF Americans have been brutalized physically, emotionally, or financially by the coronavirus pandemic. And as the number of diagnosed cases trends ominously up, we…
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Defunding WHO: Trump’s reckless decision
President Donald Trump's decision to halt funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) in the midst of a global pandemic is not only reckless and irresponsible,…
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COVID-19: Cruise Industry and its Future
In the wake of COVID-19, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has extended its March 14 No Sail Order (NSO) for cruise ships…
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COVID-19 Notes from Bangladesh:A Human Security Discourse
If at first, an idea does not sound absurd, then there is no hope for it. —Albert Einstein Background The world has once again come to…
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Revisiting Health Security: The Effects of Covid-19 Across South Asia
Shahab Enam Khan and Pooja Sharma COVID-19 and South Asia South Asians have a profound memory of Kathmandu of the 1980s, a city full of mystic…
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Tackling the economic fallout of COVID-19
Amidst the rapid spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) across the globe, Bangladesh seems to be one of the least affected countries with 10 identified cases as…
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Coronavirus: how economic rescue plans can set the global economy on a path to decarbonisation
As states contemplate how to restart the global economy after the pandemic, it’s important to remember that we’ve been here before. The global financial crisis of…