Tens of Thousands of Chinese PPE Kits Fail India Safety Test
India continues to see a shortfall in the availability of personal protection equipment (PPE) for healthcare even as the government significantly ramps up domestic production and some kits f... Read more
People will gladly resume some old habits when coronavirus restrictions are eased, but some of the new ones may stick. The latest part of our series on lessons learned from the pandemic look... Read more
Theodore Roosevelt: US Navy’s Watershed moment
In every calamity there are those momentous incidents that stand out to write their own histories amid the clutter of event logs. The story of the captain of the US Navy aircraft carrier The... Read more
How Kerala Managed To Flatten The Curve
Kerala has been reporting fresh cases of the novel coronavirus in single digits for the past few days, a flattening of a deadly curve by measures that included early detection, aggressive te... Read more
Ongoing tensions between Washington and Beijing have prompted the US to promise to cooperate with the island for ‘years to come’ Taiwan’s exclusion from the WHO has been another source of te... Read more
This post has been updated to correct how long a sailor, who has since died, was in the intensive care unit in a U.S. Navy hospital on Guam. More than one out of ten sailors assigned to USS... Read more
Bangladesh Hangs Ex-Army Officer for Assassinating Country’s Founder Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Bangladesh has executed a former Army officer for his involvement in the assassination of the country’s founder, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975. Bangladesh Capt (dismissed)... Read more
Hundreds of Doctors Urge Trump to Remove Limits on Hydroxychloroquine for Virus Outpatients
Sen. Ron Johnson, Wisconsin Republican, sent President Trump a letter Friday from more than 700 physicians urging him to expand the use of hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus outpatients by r... Read more
Why This Crisis is a Turning Point in History
The deserted streets will fill again, and we will leave our screen-lit burrows blinking with relief. But the world will be different from how we imagined it in what we thought were normal ti... Read more
OPEC+ leaders Saudi Arabia and Russia arrived at an historic crude production cut late Thursday, effectively halting a bitter oil war which saw prices implode by more than 50% from January h... Read more