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‘President for Life’: Putin Opens Door to Extending Rule until 2036
The Russian leader said Tuesday that he is open to a proposal that would allow him to run for president in 2024 and 2030. Evan Gershkovich…
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The United States and the European Union Have Failed the Audit of Pandemic
Major patterns of the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic are now all too clear: But the patterns that have emerged are never discussed in the 24/7 American…
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Open Information and Early Responses to Communicable Viral Outbreaks in Democracies And Autocracies
Dharish David, Connie Ngo & Jia Ming Ow While Trump recently faced a lot of criticism for calling COVID-19 the ‘Chinese Virus’, his frustration could be…
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COVID-19: The situation in Africa is worse than it seems
Millions across Africa spend six hours each day collecting contaminated water. The lack of access to water and hygiene puts these communities at the greatest risk,…
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Fear of a fragile planet
COVID-19 has overnight destroyed the old divide between the fragile, mostly developing countries of the global South and the supposedly stable, mostly rich countries of the…
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India cannot fight a pandemic with police lathis. It must ensure people have food – and dignity
Scenes in the national capital offer a glimpse into the crisis. Supriya Sharma “You can speak to him in English,” said a rickshaw puller who was…
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5G, Bill Gates and anti-vaxxers: how mad conspiracies set SA up for tragedy
We know how the story of all these Covid-9 conspiracy theories will end. We have seen it all before. The story ends with the deaths of…
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Authoritarianism masking incompetence? The case of the Republic of Cyprus
Authoritarianism, left unchecked to shape the public discourse, can self-propel and legitimise itself, diverting the blame for a degraded public health system from the state onto…
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Bangladeshi children face risk from pandemic
The country's youngest residents must not be allowed to become 'collateral damage' of the Covid-19 crisis Shamim Jahan The Covid-19 pandemic is the defining global health…
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Life of the Coronavirus Crisis and Canada’s Foreign Relations
The present Coronavirus projections in Canada demonstrate that the virus is here to stay till a vaccination is on the market. Since the virus infected the…
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Politics and pandemics in the age of social media
Behind Trump and Modi’s contrasting approaches, there is a similarity. Both are playing to their strengths Arghya Sengupta United States (US) President Donald Trump repeatedly said…
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Doomsday’ for informal workers as COVID-19 rocks the economy
Economic turmoil and government measures to curb the coronavirus have dealt a cruel blow to workers in the informal sector, where layoffs go unrecorded and people…