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USA TODAY In just two months, the United States could be swimming in COVID-19 vaccine. The 500 million 0.5 or 0.3-milliliter doses expected to be shipped by then literally are enough to fill a 55,000-gallon swimming pool. As hard as it is to imagine now as people frantically call, click and line up to get vaccinated, the nation is close to shifting from a situation of scarcity to one of abundance. “It's not a switch that flips, but it's a sliding scale that happens differently community by community,” said Andy Slavitt, White House senior adviser for the COVID Response Team. “This is...

Caught in a vaccine no man’s land, these European countries are scrambling for Chinese and Russian shots As the United Kingdom celebrates giving at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine to 15 million people and the EU surpasses 23 million doses distributed, several other European countries have not yet managed to put a single shot in arms. Kosovo, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina are still waiting to receive their first vaccine shipments, while rollouts in Albania and Northern Macedonia have so far been limited to a few hundred people. The Western Balkan countries are key allies a...

Experts warn of North Korea's new international security threat in 2021 14 Feb, 2021 05:18 PM 6 minutes to read Could North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's grip on power be weakening? Photo / KNCA news.com.au By: Alexis Carey After years of relative harmony on the Korean peninsula, experts have warned that an alarming new North Korean crisis could be looming in 2021. According to the Council on Foreign Relations' annual Preventive Priorities Survey of foreign policy experts on potential geopolitical risks in the coming year, a fresh emergency in the region was the chief concern. While North Korea...

Google Is Not What It Seems In this extract from his new book When Google Met Wikileaks, WikiLeaks’ publisher Julian Assange describes the special relationship between Google, Hillary Clinton and the State Department — and what that means for the future of the internet. WikiLeaks readers can obtain a 20 percent discount on the cover price when ordering from the OR Books website by using the coupon code “WIKILEAKS”. * * * Eric Schmidt is an influential figure, even among the parade of powerful characters with whom I have had to cross paths since I founded WikiLeaks. In mid-May 2011 ...

 This post is part of the Council on Foreign Relations’ blog series on women's leadership in peacebuilding and non-violent movements, in which CFR fellows, scholars, and practitioners highlight new security strategies. This post was authored by Dr. Marlene Spoerri, Independent Diplomat's Director of Inclusive Diplomacy and Systems Change.