Years of conflict, instability and poverty have left Somalia ill-equipped to handle a health crisis like the coronavirus pandemic. In fact, no one really knows how many cases of COVID-19 … Click to Continue »
The first coronavirus case has been confirmed in the crowded camps for Rohingya refugees in southern Bangladesh, where more than 1 million refugees are sheltered. The person from the Rohingya … Click to Continue »
The phone rings and the voice on the other side gets straight to the point: "Fancy a pint?" The response, equally pointed: "God, yeah." That brief conversation, or some minor … Click to Continue »
Over its many years, the Eurovision Song Contest has come to be a sign of the times. So it is perhaps fitting that, in coronavirus times, nothing will be happening … Click to Continue »
Cafes, restaurants and bars in Australia's most populous state were reopening on Friday after a two-month shutdown under coronavirus lockdown measures. The easing of quarantine measures in New South Wales (NSW) state comes just a day after the national statistics office reported unprecedented record high job losses and PM Scott Morrison warned that worse was...
The problem for most working-class Britons is that life in the BC – Before Covid – era was, to quote the philosopher Thomas Hobbes, generally “nasty, brutish, and short.” The AC – After Covid – era has got to be made better. As we take our first baby steps out of lockdown, I feel more...
A strong typhoon has hit the Philippines after authorities evacuated tens of thousands of people while trying to avoid the coronavirus risks of overcrowding emergency shelters.
