Governments’ go-to method for stopping the spread of COVID-19 is imposing travel limits on infected countries. Such limits could threaten food production in the United States, Europe and elsewhere. “American produce growers preparing to harvest crops are warning of a devastating impact on fruit and...
Ukraine, deep in debt and geographically located between Poland and Russia, is divided over pursuing closer ties with Europe or Russia. After months of non-violent protests, the Ukrainian president accused of corruption and mismanagement unleashed a harsh response and then left for Russia. The...
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A fragmented set of currencies pose some risks, argue Larry Hatheway and Alexander Friedman for Project Syndicate, and a global currency could reduce currency wars and increase efficiency and price transparency. But such a currency is unlikely because the system would require legitimacy unavailable...
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Two deadly storms, Typhoon Hato in southern China and Hurricane Harvey in Texas, struck the world’s largest economies in the span of one week, leaving billions of dollars of damage and displacing thousands. Such storms destroy beaches, the natural buffers for coastal communities against surging...
Workers construct a bridge across a river in Vermont, and sand is dredged and transferred by suction pipes to build and replenish islands in Dubai
SAUGATUCK, MICHIGAN: When powerful storms strike, like Typhoon Hato in southern China or Hurricane...
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan won reelection in Turkey, convincing a slim majority that a strong centralized government and increased controls contribute to security. Critics express concern about increasing authoritarianism for Turkey. The president will oversee a polarized country with fewer checks on his...
The world is in a race to deliver fifth-generation networks, expected to offer new applications in robotics, space, defense, telecommunications, medicine and more while delivering high performance with far greater multi-gigabit capacity, speed and transmission of massive volumes of data. China...
Digital cutting edge: Huawei’s CEO Ren Zhengfei offered to share 5G technology that could spur innovations like remote surgery, right, performed on an animal in China
WASHINGTON: Panic is rising in the United States over China’s lead in the...
Cases of the new coronavirus, confirmed in more than 30 countries, strikes when the global economy is already vulnerable and many countries struggle with debt, stagnant growth, reduced industrial output and job creation. COVID-19 has triggered an unexpected disruption to supply and demand. China is...
Deforestation, climate change and other habitat destruction reduce biodiversity, bringing wild animals and humans closer along with infectious diseases. “The total number of disease outbreaks has more than tripled each decade since the 1980s,” reports Emma Newburger for CNBC. “More than two thirds...
