Chinese studios are plotting out positive portrayals of doctors and govt's effort to tackle the outbreak, in an effort to counter criticism about slow initial response.
It remains a mystery how the coronavirus re-emerged in Beijing after a lull of nearly two months, underscoring the difficulty of stamping out the pathogen.
New Zealand, which had declared it was Covid free, saw new cases after 2 sisters, who returned from UK, were allowed to leave quarantine early without a Covid test.
Questions were raised over potential dangers of food after Covid infections were traced to the chopping board of a seller of imported salmon in Beijing.
The country has over 1.5 lakh Covid cases and about 3,000 deaths. Infections have increased manifold since the govt eased a lockdown in the second week of May.
South Korea urged North Korea to tread carefully after the country reduced to rubble a $15 million liaison office set up in 2018 as a symbol of reconciliation.
US Senators are calling for overhauling police training & citizen rights as Congress wrestles with nationwide protests over racial injustice and police misconduct.
Three years into the war, Europe’s sanctions regime now resembles a policy of managed hypocrisy: Moral rhetoric for public consumption, exemptions for industrial preservation.
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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