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Coronavirus: What does it mean for natural disaster response?

Wildfires and hurricanes are coming this summer. Are emergency services and response agencies ready to tackle those catastrophes amid a pandemic? ...

Social distancing: When extreme weather and coronavirus collide

People being displaced by extreme weather events around the world are being forced to break Covid-19 social distancing safety guidelines, according to the International Federation of Red Cross and other humanitarian agencies. ...

How Covid-19 is threatening Central America's economic lifeline

During the 20 years that Alejandro Carrillo has worked in the United States, he has always sent money home. ...

Why are Trump and Obama in a new spat over Flynn?

The Justice Department's surprising decision to drop all charges against Donald Trump's former national security adviser has set off a cascade of accusations and counter-accusations. And at the centre of it are the present and previous presidents. ...

Coronavirus: How lockdown is being lifted across Europe

  After almost seven weeks of lockdown in the UK, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to announce the next phase of the country's response to the coronavirus pandemic. ...

Coronavirus: Trump says virus task force to focus on reopening economy

US President Donald Trump has said the coronavirus task force will shift its focus to reopening the economy, a day after suggesting it would be disbanded. ...

Coronavirus: Chinese state media take aim at US 'lab theory'

Chinese state media has accused US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of lying, after he said there was "enormous evidence" the coronavirus emanated from a laboratory in Wuhan. ...

Coronavirus: New York becomes Ground Zero again

The headlines seemed to be crowding in on us. The coronavirus had reached American shores. ...

Was Napoleon a muslim ?

The name « Napoleon Bonaparte » has been inscribed for ages in books retracing the rise and fall of this major figure in the history of the Western world. ...

Coronavirus: Mexico factory staff question 'essential work'

Factory workers in Ciudad Juárez rarely go on strike. Their labour rights are so weak that participating in a protest can cost them their job. ...

Coronavirus: The US resistance to a continued lockdown

In these times, the sight of a public gathering of hundreds of people mostly without face masks is alarming. ...

Coronavirus: Is social distancing an oxymoron in India?

Health experts and governments across the world have been advising people to practice social distancing to halt the spread of the deadly coronavirus. ...

Coronavirus: Spanish PM Sánchez sees 'slow and gradual' end to lockdown

Spain will slowly ease its nationwide lockdown in the second half of May, the prime minister said, provided authorities stay "on top of the virus". ...

New Paradigm for the Valuation of Works of Art: A Change that Turns the Art Market on its Head

For a long time limited to a circle of the wealthy, the art market has modernized and has never been so promising. This unparalleled expansion in recent decades is due to the new nature and growth in the number of art collectors, which today number in the tens of millions. ...