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When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. OurPrivacy Noticeexplains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time.Invalid EmailJoe Biden rolled into Philadelphia for the last time yesterday…Continue Reading
Black policy leaders will play a pivotal role in President-elect Joe Biden’s transition, marking one of the most diverse agency review teams in history. Of the 500-plus team members announced this week, more than half are women, and Black men and women are leading more than one-quarter of the teams.Continue Reading
With the coronavirus pandemic continuing to rage, and President Trump refusing to concede the election, the nation’s two Democratic leaders in Congress on Thursday scolded Republicans for their reluctance to pass a new COVID-19 relief bill and accept that Joe Biden is now president-elect. “Stop the circus and get to work on whatContinue Reading
Another systematic polling error — this time larger than 2016 — didn’t quite cost Joe Biden the presidency, but it seems pretty clear that had Republicans done about one point better across the board we would be looking at Republican control of both the House and Senate to go alongContinue Reading
Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala acknowledged Thursday that her bid to head the WTO was facing some “hiccups” after the US opposed her candidacy, but said she was staying positive. © Fabrice COFFRINI Former Nigerian finance and foreign minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says she’s keeping positive for her bid to lead the WTO AContinue Reading
Another bitter political battle over a US Supreme Court vacancy came to an end when Amy Coney Barrett was sworn in as the 115th justice on October 26 by President Donald Trump. The Senate vote on her appointment was predominantly along party lines, and was the first time in well overContinue Reading
Health leaders have found themselves projected onto the public stage as never before. Professor Chris Whitty, the UK government’s chief medical adviser, and Sir Patrick Vallance, its chief scientific adviser, have occupied the front pages and dominated the airwaves for months. They have become household names, better known than mostContinue Reading
Ant Group is likely to pull off the largest initial public offering (IPO) in history when it goes public on the Hong Kong and Shanghai exchanges on November 5. The Chinese digital finance giant is hoping to raise US$34.4 billion, eclipsing flotations by Saudi Aramco (US$29.4 billion) and its cousin Alibaba (US$25 billion). The IPO is likely toContinue Reading
COVID-19 is an unprecedented doom loop between a severe health crisis and grave economic repercussions. Government interventions to handle the outbreak and its aftermath first stopped public life in its tracks and then entirely reshaped it. This has left us in a kind of “new normal”, in which social interactionsContinue Reading
As much as 70% of the infectious diseases that emerged in humans over the last 30 years were zoonotic, which means they were caused by pathogens which originated in domestic or wild animals. Nearly 1.7 million undiscovered viruses may exist in wildlife. Despite these alarming numbers, epidemics are still relatively rare events. But,Continue Reading
Forensic specialists at the scene of the attack at Nice’s Notre Dame church (Photo: Reuters: Eric Gaillard) France has lifted its security alert status to the highest level after three people were killed and several injured during a knife attack in a Nice church, while a gunman was shot deadContinue Reading
World
64,793,052
USA
14,287,122
India
9,531,295
Brazil
6,436,650
France
2,244,635
Spain
1,682,533
UK
1,659,256
Italy
1,641,610
Germany
1,105,832
South Africa
796,472
Netherlands
532,444
Canada
387,017
UAE
171,434
Nigeria
67,838
Ghana
51,667
Gibraltar
1,035
British Virgin Islands
72