HONG KONG — The Beijing authorities have finally decided to set aside the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) Government and its Legislative Council and instead craft themselves a ...
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-Analysis- PRAGUE — From a geopolitical perspective, the Czech Republic is a case apart. After four decades of being "abducted" to the East (as writer Milan Kundera, for one, described the ...
To mitigate the high economic costs of the pandemic, it's time to demand greater contributions fr...
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After months of quiet amid the COVID-19 crisis, Hong Kong demonstrators attended an unauthorized ...
U.S. President Donald Trump has failed spectacularly in his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Bu...
PARIS — There's a price to be paid, in euros and other things, when you choose to live in a city like Paris. But there's a reason people pay: There's only one Louvre, one Opera Garnier and ...
A mix of love and hate mirrors their own feelings about Beijing.
To call it a "side effect" of the pandemic would miss the point entirely. Beyond the devastating health impacts of coronavirus on those infected is the impact the crisis is having on research and ...
There's a whole lot of money and prestige at stake as researchers across the globe scramble to de...
PARIS — The surprise announcement of a massive pact between France and Germany to lead Europe's response to the COVID-19 crisis marks a historic agreement, writes of Paris-based daily Les ...
Large cities like Buenos Aires are prepping for life after the lockdown and anticipating changes,...
Germany has the resources to weather the storm, but not everyone in Europe is convinced that's a ...
It is, of course, inevitable that governments' stay-at-home orders and other emergency measures to contain the novel coronavirus would generate differences of opinion. And yet, even a few weeks ...
As COVID-19 lingers, protective masks are recommended and even mandatory in certain places. But o...
Whether or not they were looking for it, the COVID-19 crisis has given epidemiologists bonafide public power. "At this point, if Drosten says it is too early, that carries as much weight as Merkel ...
Latin American countries are, for the most part, appreciative of Beijing's donations of much need...
Across the globe, swamped hospitals and shelter-in-place measures have impacted people's access to healthcare for any number of non-COVID-19 issues. One of them is abortion, a time sensitive ...
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