Countries like Spain, Ireland, Netherlands & France are bringing back strict travel restrictions and shutting restaurants & bars as cases have surged in the past few weeks.
In ‘Bland Fanatics’, Pankaj Mishra writes how books and films portray the pre-war years as an age of prosperity in Europe. But it was full of war, racism and genocide.
Closing businesses and stay-at-home orders remain reluctant options given the dark economic forecast and millions of jobs at risk, particularly in tourism.
With more capacity to test and contact-tracing programs in place, countries are catching milder or asymptomatic cases in younger people that previously went uncounted.
Nikola Corp., whose market worth is $10.5 billion currently, promises clean energy transport and has been touted as Elon Musk's biggest upcoming contender.
Many travellers from the wealthier north appear inclined to stay closer to home — a potential blow to southern countries like Spain and Greece, where tourism is a major sector.
The world watched aghast as police armed with tasers, tear-gas masks—and in one case backed up by snipers—arrested hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters at universities across the United States.
The Asian Development Outlook 2024 report suggests that policymakers in the region should monitor a number of risks. These include escalating conflicts and geopolitical tensions.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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