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Paul Adepoju, The Lancet
The COVID-19 pandemic has spread across Africa, with every country on the continent confirming cases of the disease. In addition to efforts aimed at flattening the disease curve, improving diagnosis, and ensuring case finding and management align with global benchmarks, health systems in African countries are also facing several local challenges that foreign solutions may not effectively help with. These challenges are presenting...
Jeremy Beaman, Examiner
Recent reports indicate that European Union officials are considering excluding American travelers from its list of those allowed in, the reason being rising coronavirus infection numbers in the United States.
Ryan Cooper, The Week
The United States is in the midst of a full-blown second wave of coronavirus. According to Worldometers, Tuesday had 36,015 new cases — the highest number since May 1, and the third-highest ever. Arizona, Florida, South Carolina, California, and Texas are headed for a dire emergency fast. So far deaths have thankfully not returned to their previous highs, probably in part because the new surge...
Wallace Gregson, National Interest
Does Kim remain in office after peace is declared? If there is no regime change, then what does the North-South relationship look like? What does the border look like? How is the threat to Seoul and other metropolitan areas resolved? Assuming that could be solved, could Kim count on successive U.S. administrations honoring an agreement made by a previous administration?
Zosia Wanat, Politico EU
Szymon Hołownia wants to shake up Poland’s two-party system.
Philip Stephens, FT
Vladimir Putin should brush off the cold war cobwebs in pursuit of a hard-headed look at national interests
Landry Signe, Project Syndicate
The short-term shock of the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout will have a significant impact across Africa. But the continent has a newfound resilience and will come back stronger, especially if African governments seize the current opportunity for effective leadership.
Ramon Marks, National Interest
The new strategy for Beijing is profoundly different from the political containment and détente strategies that the United States followed during the real Cold War.
Helen Raleigh, National Review
Markus Kounalakis, Miami Herald
During the height of the 1950s Red Scare, when there were communists under every bed and spies in every closet, America saw threats to its national security everywhere. Justifiably, there were purges of those who really sought to sneak state secrets to the Soviets. War plans and bomb-making schematics were the most important of those confidential documents. Accusations abounded; not everyone was guilty.
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David Pilling, Financial Times
Plans for eight west African nations to launch a ‘liberated’ currency have gone awry.
Economist
Alexander Lukashenko, who touted vodka for covid-19, faces real opposition
Tom McTague, The Atlantic
At one level, the ugliness of the moment seems a trite observation to make. And yet it gets to the core of the complicated relationship the rest of the world has with America.
Paul Goble, Jamestown
Changes in the top management of the United States’ international broadcasting services over the last several weeks have attracted enormous attention and criticism from various quarters. But one change, taken before these developments, may be equally consequential and deleterious to the interests of the peoples that US broadcasting is directed at as well as to the national interests of the United States itself. At issue are reports that the management of Radio Free Europe/Radio... Читать дальше...
Alec Luhn, Politico EU
Russia holds victory parade ahead of ballot that could keep him in power for another 16 years.
Marija Ristic, Balkan Insight
A ten-count indictment has been filed against Kosovo's President Hashim Thaci charging him with crimes allegedly committed in the independence war of the late-1990s, including murder and torture
David Kirichenko, Kyiv Post
There was great jubilance across the country once comedian-turned-politician Volodymyr Zelensky was elected to the Ukrainian presidency in April 2019. As he took office, Ukraine had been engaged in a war with Russia for over five years, decimating the country’s economy and killing tens of thousands of people. The newly-elected president wanted to end this conflict. Zelensky’s victory was seen as a rejection of the country’s traditional...
Sabena Siddiqui, Al Monitor
The coronavirus pandemic coupled with the oil crisis is pushing foreign workers to exit the Gulf states, perhaps shaping future labor policies.
Jason Kirby, Maclean’s
Canada is facing a crisis comparable to the Great Depression. Is a total economic rethink our only hope?
