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Border closures, lockdowns, competition for medical equipment, export bans — at the beginning of the health crisis, states in Europe and around the world were primarily concerned with implementing national measures and interests to contain COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. This discernible lack of solidarity and commitment to international cooperation among key […] More
There is no part of the globe that has not been affected by the novel coronavirus pandemic. At the time of writing, over 200 countries and territories have reported outbreaks as the global number of confined COVID-19 cases continues its steady march towards 4 million. But there is another pandemic that is threatening the health […] More
President says Americans ‘have to be warriors’ and US can’t stay closed down Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Donald Trump has pushed to get the US economy open again, despite more deaths being a likely consequence. Photograph: REX/Shutterstock Donald Trump has again suggested the US may need to accept the reality […] More
In January, the US assassinated two crucial military figures — Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy head of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) — on Iraqi territory. This led the Iraqi parliament to vote in favor of the departure of all foreign forces from Iraq. The US refused, saying that […] More
President had suggested taskforce was to be dismantled Trump keen to reopen country and revive US economy Coronavirus – latest US updates Coronavirus – latest global updates See all our coronavirus coverage Donald Trump at the Oval Office on Wednesday after signing a proclamation in honor of National Nurses Day. Trump tweeted that the taskforce […] More
On March 16, French President Emmanuel Macron was the first head of state to declare war in the battle against the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. In a televised address to the French nation, he repeated the phrase “we are at war” as obsessively as Cato the Elder more than two millennia ago, who insisted […] More
Raging at China over coronavirus won’t help – scrutinising our own governments might Sam Geall There is a case for an inquiry into events in China, but it has nothing to do with a politically convenient dossier about a Wuhan lab A woman wearing a protective mask in front of a portrait of President Xi […] More
George W Bush paved the way for Trump – to rehabilitate him is appalling Arwa Mahdawi We don’t have to rewrite the former president’s record just because the incumbent is unleashing his own campaign of shock and awfulness George W Bush visits Biloxi, Mississippi, in September 2005. Parts of the city were completely destroyed by […] More
