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June 30- A $500 million grant under the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation faces opposition within Nepal’s ruling party. Nepal, which is in the club of Least Developed Countries (LDC), aspires to become a middle-income country by 2030. To achieve that goal, it desperately needs massive…
June 8- A couple weeks ago I published a guide to cognitive biases for journalists. I saved perhaps the biggest one of all — confirmation bias — for a post all of its own. It might be one of the best-known biases, but for…
Drug manufacturers face supply-chain weaknesses and sourcing issues as they ramp up complex production processes to meet global demand. – Heidi Ledford Production of remdesivir, an antiviral drug approved to treat COVID-19, is ramping up.Credit: Ulrich Perrey/POOL/AFP/Getty The world was waiting for…
CORONAVIRUS: COVID-19 The major dividing line in effective crisis response will not place autocracies on one side and democracies on the other. Francis Fukuyama ALEXANDER DRAGO / REUTERSWhen the coronavirus pandemic now sweeping the world was localized in China in January, many people…
March 30- Ministers say China risks becoming a ‘pariah state’ over its handling of outbreak They are furious over the Communist state’s campaign of misinformation PM Boris Johnson is now facing calls to reverse decision on Huawei 5G deal Coronavirus symptoms: what…
Nepal is still lagging far behind international human rights standards concerning equal rights to citizenship. Hemanta Shrestha/TKP File Photo This International Women’s Day marks 25 years of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action—one of the most comprehensive documents aiming to remove systemic…
“So now I am just waiting to be deported… unless the Indian government has a change of heart. I’m prepared to let the fact that I’ve been treated like a criminal go, and I hope they will let me visit my family…
January 9. Xi Jinping has backed out of the spotlight as the country faces its worst crisis in years, reflecting the political risks he faces if efforts to contain the virus fail. By Chris Buckley and Steven Lee Myers Published Feb. 8, 2020 WUHAN, China —…
Irrespective of its actual fallout, the killing of Qassem Suleimani will increase scrutiny on the administration’s foreign policy, its prioritization of Asia, and its ties with regional states. The killing of Qassem Suleimani, the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)…
Many Iranians have thanked Trump for taking Iranian General and the second most powerful man Qassem Soleimani out. They have used the hashtag ‘Thanks POTUS 4 Soleimani”: #tnxPOTUS4Soleimani “Can We sincerely ask @StateDept or @MessageFromLen to let the president know about the…