Three months after COVID-19 first appeared in China, US President Donald Trump has determined who to blame for the resulting global health pandemic: the World Health Organization. On Tuesday, he announced that he would cut American funding for the international...
In Israel, COVID-19 has hit ultra-Orthodox Jews particularly hard. Now the country’s Ultra-Orthodox health minister Yaakov Litzman has infected himself, likely due to not complying with his own regulations. Israel’s Battle Against Coronavirus In some parts of Israel, coronavirus contagion...
In times of emergency and national crisis, world leaders typically use the opportunities to reassure their citizens, console them, and lead them through the turmoil. Covid-19 is no different. Leaders from practically every nation have played a role in convincing...
It is difficult to predict what long-term impact the coronavirus will have on global politics, but it is unlikely that this pandemic is going to stem the rise of populism. Ivan Krastev of the New Statesman wrote that it would...
Covid-19 has impacted corners of our world, but not all countries have faced it the same way. The Republic of Korea (ROK) — with its unique economic situation and history — took strong steps to stop the spread of the...
Never in peacetime has the global economy experienced what it is going through at the moment. Almost 3 billion people are currently under a lockdown as factories are forced to halt production, travel banned, services discontinued and international trade facing...
We have been into an intensive care hospital in Lombardy, the mostly hit region by COVID-19 in Italy. Here doctors are fighting every day to save lives. Read the full report here
Barely four days after all sides in the Yemeni conflict welcomed the call for a ceasefire in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the war seems to be escalating yet again and threatening to undo whatever little progress had been...
The drama of Israeli elections has lingered on for more than a year and over three rounds of polls but it appears it might finally be near resolution as the unity government between two rival groups looms closer. After bickering...
The scourge of the novel coronavirus is showing no signs of deceleration, and has put billions of people under lockdown, breaking the wheel of global economic activity. The virus has been particularly harsh towards Iran, infecting more than 44,000 people...
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