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 27 May 2021 - 10:33 The Peninsula Doha: Dr. Thani bin Abdulrahman Al Kuwari, Second Vice President of the Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) and President of the Qatar Athletics Federation (QFA), yesterday said the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) is ready to host the Doha round of the 2021 Diamond League.  The Second Round of the 2021 season will be held tomorrow at the track and field venue of the Suheim Bin Hamad Stadium. Dr Al Kuwari said that the Doha Round will witness participation of world champions and Olympic Games stars besides athletes who sparkled at the 2019 World Athletics Champ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On May 5, 2021, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai signaled a potential new direction in U.S. trade policy, announcing that the United States would support waiving intellectual property (IP) protections for COVID-19 vaccines. In her statement, Ambassador Tai noted: “This is a global health crisis, and the extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures. The Administration believes strongly in intellectual property protections, but in service of ending this pandemic, supports the wai...

5 May 2021Washington, DC Democrat Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI) has taken more than $110,000 worth of special interest-funded lavish trips, filings with the U.S. House Ethics Committee reveal. Documents show that between March 2001 and August 2019, Kind took at least 14 trips valued at $110,665—all funded by special interest groups. He has taken trips everywhere from Tel Aviv to Geneva to Rome to Munich to Fort Lauderdale to New Orleans to Houston to Seattle and more, funded by various different special interest groups and corporations. The documents, while filed with the House Ethics Committee as r...

Having joined the WTO, many Western countries expected China to soon liberalise and become an open market economy. This second in a series of three columns describes how China has been able to shrug off pressures to change its economic structure and trading strategy, particularly regarding how its state-owned enterprises operate within the multilateral system.

The Federal The world can’t afford vaccine imperialism when millions wait for a jab The reluctance of countries like the US to share raw materials that are required for vaccine development in the developing world including India is shocking and ironical, especially when they are sitting on a surplus of vaccines COMMENTS Representative photo In normal times anything involving one billion people would have been an event with a lot of fanfare; but this is pandemic season where the coronavirus is wreaking havoc with a vengeance on countries like India and other developing na...