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
China’s space programme suffered another setback on Thursday night with its second rocket launch failure in less than a month. Officials are investigating what caused a malfunction during th... Read more
The Coronavirus Threatens NATO. Let’s Move to Protect the Alliance.
The global fight against COVID-19 has devastating economic consequences which might soon be felt in the defense sector. First estimates by OECD and national institutions conclude that the in... Read more
Inside Wuhan’s Secretive National Biosafety Lab
Controversy and secrecy appear to lurk in the corridors of the National Biosafety Laboratory in Wuhan. Described as “a cell within the Chinese Academy of Science’s Institute of Virology,” it... Read more
Indonesia Borrows Big to Avoid Covid-19 Collapse
Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati and her fiscal policy cohorts seem to have a better grasp of what is needed to keep the country ticking over economically during the Covid-1... Read more
Coronavirus: Japan Declares State of Emergency, 18 Tokyo Doctors Infected After Dinner party
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday declared a state of emergency to fight new coronavirus infections in major population centres and unveiled a stimulus package he described as am... Read more
Dispatch from Rome: On hope and COVID-19
It is 6 p.m in Rome. The entire city has been in COVID-19 lock-down for a month. It only seems longer. After all this time, everyone would much prefer to be outside. The weather today was be... Read more