In view of the coronavirus pandemic, Japan has upheld a law that bars re-entry of foreign workers after overseas travel to control the spread of the virus.
Most airlines have been offering credit instead of refunds if flights are canceled due to the travel curbs as ticket sales generated much-needed cash flow.
Government, corporate and household leaders should help draw the path ahead that acknowledges the inconvenient reality of further economic damage before the bottom is reached.
Scientists believe the current coronavirus looks less deadly, but may be more contagious. The decisions on quarantine should be based on science, not politics or fear.
Mike Pompeo imposed visa ban on Chinese govt leaders & Communist Party officials found involved in abuse of Uighurs, ethnic Kazakhs & other minority Muslims.
Italy is off shoring its Mediterranean migration problem to a former colony, Libya, with the intention of preventing mostly sub-Saharan African migrants from leaving Libya’s shores for Europe.
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.
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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