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What will the new normal look like?
More remote work, more cashless transactions, and new opportunities for telecom can be anticipated Mamun Rashid The Covid-19 pandemic, the greatest global crisis of the 21st…
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“Immune to Evidence”: How Dangerous Coronavirus Conspiracies Spread
Conspiratorial videos and websites about COVID-19 are going viral. Here’s how one of the authors of “The Conspiracy Theory Handbook” says you can fight back. One…
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There’s No One Worse Than Trump on Climate and War
THE STAGGERING responsibilities of the executive office do not appear to have aged President Donald Trump much. Unlike past presidents who have grown visibly wearier on…
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Fire, injury and death: What’s happening in Lebanon’s Tripoli?
At the end of April, Lebanon’s Tripoli witnessed some of the most violent clashes between security forces and protesters since anti-government demonstrations exploded across the country…
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Coronavirus school closures impact 1.3 billion children – and remote learning is increasing inequality
Victoria Nash and Rebecca Eynon COVID-19 is disrupting education on an unprecedented scale. At the time of writing, UNESCO estimates that nearly 1.3 billion pupils have…
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Malaysia is beating coronavirus, so why should Muhyiddin be worried?
The country, once the worst hit in Southeast Asia, is now relaxing measures after a stunning turnaround in fortunes But the new prime minister is not…
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Situation Update on COVID-19, 18 May 2020
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Plans after the pandemic
Nepalis knew all along that the economy, based largely on remittance, is unsustainable. But we never realised that it would meet such a chaotic fate. Madhukar…
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Should Bangladesh defer LDC graduation?
Debapriya Bhattacharya and Fareha Raida Islam Bangladesh has attained considerable development progress in the past three decades. This has led it to enter a dual-graduation phase—moving…
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Putin Withdraws From the Coronavirus Crisis in a Political Abdication
Putin is clearly eager to avoid being identified with the pandemic and the difficult measures being adopted to fight it. Mark Galeotti Abdication tends to be…
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A wake-up call for universal social protection
Fahmida Khatun and Syed Yusuf Saadat The coronavirus pandemic has bluntly exposed how a large number of people across the world are susceptible to health and…