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When
Vice President Kamala Harris met with
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obradorlast week, she and her advisors sat at a fancy table with name cards and water glasses and the American and Mexican flags behind them.
But the two leaders shared some warm words and friendly banter only virtually, over video connections. For Harris there were no ceremonial tequila shots or cultural tours as there might be on a trip to Mexico City, and certainly no encounters with ordinary Mexicans.
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by Niall Ferguson: A major lesson of Covid-19 is that there is no distinction between natural and man-made catastrophes…
The Covid-19 pandemic is not over, but it is already clear that Lord Rees, Britain’s astronomer royal, has won his 2017 bet with the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker that “bioterror or bioerror will lead to one million casualties in a single event within a six-month period starting no later than Dec. 31, 2020.”
Last year, according to Johns Hopkins University, the SARS-CoV-2 virus claimed the lives of 1.8 million people. The global death toll could exceed 5 million by Aug. 1 or 9 million, if one accepts the drastic new upward revision by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. It could have been worse, of course. In March 2020, some epidemiologists argued that, without drastic social distancing and economic lockdowns, the ultimate death toll could be betw
Brazil: Bolsonaro Admits Record Drought Will Cause Electricity Crisis MIN READMay 11, 2021 | 18:15 GMT
In a recent speech, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro acknowledged that the country was on the verge of a serious [power grid] problemâ due to a severe drought that has Brazilâs hydroelectric dams operating at increasingly low water levels, Deutsche Welle reported May 10. .
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