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Global economic outlook during the pandemic: A changed world
Jun 13, 2020 03:38The June 2020 Global Economic Prospects describes both the immediate and near-term outlook for the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and the long-term damage it has dealt to prospects for growth.
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Could the coronavirus crisis finally finish off coal?
Jun 13, 2020 03:32Locking hundreds of millions of us down in our homes around the world the COVID-19 crisis has led to an unprecedented fall in energy demand, including for electricity. And that has, in turn, revealed something very striking about the economics of the energy industry: the underlying vulnerability of coal, the fuel that powered the creation of the modern world.
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US police violence in Minneapolis affirms why cops have no place in labor movement
Jun 10, 2020 11:00“The US police have no place in the labor movement. They are an anti-labor institution and share no interests with the working class. For over 200 years, they have operated at the behest of white elites to ensure that workers remain divided by race”, says Cedric de Leon, Director of the Labor Center at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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New humanitarian crisis in Yemen
Jun 10, 2020 10:52Saudi Arabia and its partners in crime have intensified their bombing campaign as the COVID-19 outbreak looms over Yemen. This is while efforts are underway through an emergency donor conference to support the war-torn country as it faces a coronavirus catastrophe in the sixth year of the Saudi-led military campaign. Aid groups have warned that the fast-spreading virus could wreak havoc after years of war and amid crippling funding shortages.
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Protecting food security in Africa during COVID-19
Jun 09, 2020 04:47Recently, the ministers for agriculture of African Union member states publicly committed to minimizing food system disruptions and ensuring food security and nutrition for all their citizens —especially the poorest and most vulnerable — during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
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How Bill Gates became voodoo doll of COVID conspiracies
Jun 08, 2020 16:58According to a study by The New York Times and Zignal Labs, theories linking Bill Gates to the coronavirus were mentioned 1.2 million times on television or social media between February and April. Much of the content is posted to public Facebook groups, from where it is shared millions of times.
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US police use of tear gas could make the coronavirus pandemic worse
Jun 08, 2020 16:41“The Philadelphia protest was one of many instances in recent days in which police launched tear gas — a toxic substance that can cause lung damage — into crowds”, says Lisa Song, from ProPublica.
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‘Second more deadly wave of coronavirus expected ‘to hit Europe this winter’
Jun 07, 2020 06:55The World Health Organization’s top official in Europe has said European countries should brace themselves for a deadly second wave of coronavirus infections because the pandemic is not over. In an exclusive interview with The Telegraph, Dr. Hans Kluge, Director for the WHO European region, delivered a stark warning to countries beginning to ease their lockdown restrictions, saying that now is the “time for preparation, not celebration.”
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Are protesters justified in anger over US injustice? Why protests in US are harder to contain?
Jun 07, 2020 06:46The protests against racial discrimination and injustice in the United States have sparked international solidarity and outcry, highlighting once again Washington’s hypocrisy and double standards on human rights. The majority of Americans say that the anger expressed by protesters over the police killing of George Floyd is justified.
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COVID 19 causes child detention crisis, and a ‘time bomb’ in UK adult prisons
Jun 05, 2020 13:35The Lib Dem MP Layla Moran said: “We have a mental health time bomb in our prisons and the UK government has admitted that violence and self-harm could rise as a result of their actions.” Moran said: “It is time for the British government to invest in our prisons rather than running them into the ground. We have a system close to collapse having to fight a pandemic on a shoestring. Otherwise we are brewing up a toxic mix that could bring about a coronavirus catastrophe in our prisons.”