Politicians all over the world have embraced war metaphors to describe the global pandemic. COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, is the enemy. Inthe United States, PresidentDonald…
It is now abundantly clear that the world cannot fully emerge from its current state of novel coronavirus lockdown until a vaccine is found. Never before have so many lives, livelihoods, and…
The second decade of the third millennium has kicked off with a global crisis in the form of COVID-19. The virus started in China and has since caused the entire world to go into lockdown. Every day…
OnMarch 16, riots broke out in four prisons in thestate of São PauloinBrazil. The novel coronavirus was at the heart of these disturbances: the prisoners rebelled at the announcement that their…
A dramatic deterioration in US-China relations in recent weeks has further destabilised a critical relationship between Washington and Beijing that was already under serious strain before the novel…
As major European countries cheered a drop in coronavirus death rates this week, a topUnited Nations officialwarned of a looming crisis in poor countries that could "boomerang" back to rich…
It is evident today that the Iranian regime has been lying about the number of Coronavirus deaths in the country. In the beginning of the crisis, Iran has been following the strategy of lying about…
The coronavirus pandemic is perhaps the defining struggle of our era, but the global response to it has stalled over a question of scheduling.The United States andAustraliawant accountability now:…
On February 27, 2020, some news reports emerged that a woman in Osaka, Japan had tested positive for Coronavirus for a second time after seemingly making a full recovery. Naturally, this raised…
Over the last week, Washington has turned its eye once more to tightening the binds of containment, in response to Iranian provocations in the Gulf, moving to extend a UN arms embargo and deliver a…
In what could be a historic turning point in US-Syria relations, the new government in Damascus will likely join the international coalition against the Islamic State (IS)
The 34-year-old socialist's win is a seismic development, proving that tax rises for the rich to fund social programmes, and unwavering advocacy for Palestinian rights, are politically viable stances
Those who are able to bury their dead are among the lucky. For others, not knowing the fate of their missing loved ones or receiving mutilated corpses impossible to identify adds insult to injury.
Digital art is rewriting the rules of the field, revising the meaning of authenticity, and recalibrating the boundary between virtual and physical. Have we lost something here?