Category : Global

For International Anticorruption Day this year the World Bank is drawing attention to the challenges, complexities, and consequences of corruption in fragile settings. The term “fragility” can mean many things, and there is no single type of fragile environment. Similarly, corruption can mean many things, and is present in all countries. The most r...

Hwaseong, South Korea – The rush by Asia-Pacific countries to slam borders shut in response to the Omicron variant has raised a sobering question: What if harsh restrictions like travel bans never truly end? Scientists widely agree the coronovirus will keep mutating indefinitely, with new variants emerging periodically for the rest of our lives. Fo...

“I don’t think we felt it was the right step to penalize athletes who have been training, preparing for this moment,” Ms. Psaki said. Beijing has used the Olympic Games in the past to assert itself on the world stage, including in 2008 when the opening ceremony served as a way for the country to […]...

Three Duke University students – two at the main campus in Durham, North Carolina, and one at Duke’s campus in China — have been named Schwarzman Scholars, a program that funds one year of study in Beijing.  They are among 151 scholars that will begin the program in August of 2022.  Seniors Jessica Edelson and […]...

Qatari, Turkish FMs reiterate strong ties and urge international community to engage with Taliban to facilitate aid to Afghans. Doha, Qatar – Qatar’s foreign minister has reiterated his country’s position on addressing the situation in Afghanistan, saying Doha will continue to work towards enhancing humanitarian and economic efforts in the war-torn...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian PM Modi have met more than a dozen times Visits by Russian presidents to India always invoke a sense of nostalgia. The Moscow-Delhi relationship dates back to the Cold War era and it has been strong ever since. This “all-weather” partnership is one of the success stories of global […]...

Published 6 December 2021 As the 2023 presidential election inches closer, the issue of zoning of the presidential ticket of the major political parties is now on the front burner. While the ruling All Progressives Congress has given indications that it will zone the ticket to the South, the Peoples Democratic Party has been keeping […]...

Dec 05, 2021, 6:29pmUpdated 22m ago By: News 12 Staff The omicron variant of COVID-19 has now been detected in New York and in Suffolk County. Nassau Health Commissioner Dr. Laurence Eisenstein joins Rich Barrabi to discuss what measures are being taken to reduce the spread. Also, Rep. Tom Suozzi announces he’s running for governor, […...

The EU’s plan to poach financial firms to the continent to modify the global financial market, is a “danger to the world”.  Due to the split in law between a sovereign state and the European Central Bank, Barnabas Reynolds, claimed this friction could allow for financial liabilities to be hidden within the bloc.  Writing for [&hel...