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Tourism deals lingering blow to global economy
Jun 15, 2020 15:19Economists warn the blow that coronavirus has dealt to the global travel and tourism industry is set to do lingering damage to the world’s growth, as areas that are dependent on visitors for their income struggle to reposition their local economies.
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Black Lives Matter everywhere: it’s time to defund the US military
Jun 15, 2020 14:28“The case for Black Lives Matter should be applied globally and the push to defund police should be extended to the US military,” said Medea Benjamin, American political activist who co-founded Code Pink.
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American police shoot, kill, imprison more people than other developed countries
Jun 10, 2020 15:43US Police officers are more likely to use force on black Americans – and, according to a 2016 study published in the American Journal of Health, black men are nearly three times more likely than white men to be killed by police intervention. Comparable figures for other countries are not readily available. In general, more Americans are subjected to the cogs of the criminal justice system than in many other countries; and more end up in prison, too.
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‘Second more deadly wave of coronavirus expected ‘to hit Europe this winter’
Jun 07, 2020 11:25The 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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Heart failure: Poor health literacy raises death risk
Jun 05, 2020 08:31Lila J. Finney Rutten, Ph.D., professor of health services research at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota said “Our findings showed that an inadequate level of health literacy is associated with increased risks in mortality and hospitalization among patients with heart failure.”
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World health leaders urge green recovery from coronavirus crisis
May 29, 2020 08:48Studies have suggested that air pollution may play a role in worsening COVID-19 symptoms or increasing mortality, though scientists also say it is too early to draw hard conclusions about the full impacts. However, the clearing skies that have accompanied lockdown in many countries are under threat, as industrial activity resumes without new safeguards.
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A life of heat 'near unlivable' for more than 3 billion people in just decades, climate report warns
May 27, 2020 10:43In the next five decades, more than three billion people—one third of the world's population—could live in regions with climate conditions considered unlivable, according to a new study.
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ECB heads for more stimulus even as courts spar over its limits
May 20, 2020 19:58The European Central Bank (ECB) tweaked policy around the edges recently but kept the door wide open to further stimulus — including potentially controversial purchases of junk debt — to help an economy ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic. Facing an unprecedented recession, the ECB said it would make loans to banks even cheaper but kept the terms of its hallmark asset purchase scheme unchanged, disappointing investors who had bet on even more money-printing.
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Advocates eyeing post-pandemic world say green hydrogen’s time has come
May 17, 2020 10:38Hydrogen has long been touted as a clean alternative to fossil fuels. Now, as major economies prepare green investments to kickstart growth, advocates spy a golden chance to drag the niche energy into the mainstream of a post-pandemic world. Green hydrogen was pushed to the fore recently when Fatih Birol, Head of the International Energy Agency, said the technology was “ready for the big time” and urged governments to channel investments into the fuel.
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Isolated and alone, Britain has become the sick man of Europe
May 13, 2020 14:16The view of Britain as Europe’s “problem child” predates the coronavirus pandemic but has been greatly reinforced by it. Foreign perceptions of the UK as a badly governed, disorderly, embittered and chronically divided country took deep root in the politically chaotic years that followed the 2016 Brexit referendum.