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Universal coverage thats necessary. the international monetary fund, theyve said the world could, using excess vaccines, reach 40% of the global adult population this year. but at the moment we havent got the surge of redistribution and distribution thats necessary to make that happen, both in the interest of people in poor countries, and frankly, in our interest as well. >> david milliband, president and ceo of the international rescue committee, thank you for being here. but really thank you f...

Global health system ‘unfit’ for purpose and major reform needed, concludes independent review 12 May 2021 • 11:00am The Chinese army had already deployed medical specialists to Wuhan by the end of January, the epicentre of a spiralling viral outbreak that had killed 41 people, but a ‘lost’ month at the start of the crisis led to indecision and complacency in the rest of the world Credit: HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images The worst ravages of the Covid-19 pandemic could have been av...

‘Syria in urgent need’ of humanitarian aid, charities warn Donors criticised by aid agencies for not following up pledges ALAMY Syrian protesters in Idlib, on 4 April, mark the fourth anniversary of the chemical attack allegedly carried out by Syrian government forces on Khan Shaykhun on 4 April 2017. More than 80 people were killed Syrian protesters in Idlib, on 4 April, mark the fourth anniversary of the chemical attack allegedly carried out by Syrian government fo...

by Mathias Keittle Sri Lanka eliminated a dreaded terrorist group, with intricate global links, but receives little credit for it. Unlike elsewhere in the world, Sri Lanka has succeeded in resettling 300,000 IDPs (Internal Displaced Persons). There are no starving children for the NGOs to feed but this gets ignored. Sri Lanka has avoided mass misery, epidemics and starvation but the West takes no notice of this. Sri Lanka has attained enviable socio-economic standards for a developing country w...

The Biden administration is reviewing the designation of the Houthis as a terrorist group that was made late ...

International Rescue Committee: The worlds most vulnerable face conflict, Covid-19 and climate change in 2021, report says CNN 12/16/2020 By Stefano Pozzebon and Zamira Rahim, CNN © Nariman El-Mofty/AP A refugee who fled the conflict in the Ethiopias Tigray fills his gallon with water at Hamdeyat Transition Center near the Sudan-Ethiopia border, eastern Sudan on December 3 Optimism about 2021 is emerging in wealthier corners of the world, with both the United States and the...

The clock keeps ticking. and i imagine the most likely scenario is that in the end, and im sticking my neck out a bit here, but in the end, i think we will end up with a second referendum in this country, because parliament will be unable to make up its mind. no majority for anything. so eventually, the question of whether to stay in the european union or whether to go out on the deal that she has negotiated will be put back to the people. but thats obviously extremely, extremely divisive in a c...

Its going on across the west, i would say. in the european context, i think there is an added wrinkle, which is that the traditional big tent political parties of the center left and center right, in many european countries, are now no longer what -- people are so frustrated with them and frustrated at the status that they have. so the rise of the afd in germany is the rise of a sort of far right party born of the frustration of people who feel that the center right party no longer stands for wh...

Industry who youre fascinated by. and what helps you do this? the big data computing systems that theyre investing in a lot and that we are, as well. but you wouldnt know what to do with this data ten years ago. now you can correlate it and cyst sift, figure out who is a spy, executive, who do i have blackmail material on. >> this is fascinating stuff, david. this is the new cold war youve been writing about superbly. we will surely be coming back to you to get the next episode -- the next chapt...

Two weeks ago, the massive marriott hotel conglomerate announced one of its reservation systems had been hacked. the information of some 500 million guests was at risk, the company said. names, passport numbers, arrival and departure information and credit card numbers. but according to a fascinating story in the "new york times," these hackers likely werent interested in going down to walmart and buying a tv with your credit card. their plot was much more sinister. my next guest, david sanger, ...