As COVID-19 reaches rural India, “people are dropping dead like flies”

Gasping for breath Reuters/Adnan ABIDI On the evening of April 23, Dhanraj Singh, a 40-year blind man, arrived at the Sikanderpur community health centre in eastern Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia district, complaining of breathlessness. Singh, a resident of the nearby Bansi … Read More

Mapping the migrant camps in Europe

Successful integration of refugees and migrants into their host society is at the core of the European migration strategy – at least, on paper. In reality their current living conditions show that they are far from meeting this objective. MIIR’s analysis … Read More

The race to succeed Germany’s Angela Merkel just got more exciting

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KEY POINTS The race has just become even more complicated, with two rivals contesting the conservative ticket. CDU lawmakers will discuss who that should be on Tuesday and hope to come to a decision this week. But it will be … Read More

Biden keeps U.S. refugee cap at Trump-era 15,000 – for now

President Joe Biden signed an order on Friday limiting U.S. refugee admissions this year to the historically low 15,000 cap set under his predecessor Donald Trump, shelving a plan to raise it to 62,500 and drawing the ire of refugee … Read More

US eyes major rollback in Iran sanctions to revive nuke deal

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In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani speaks in a meeting in Tehran, Iran, on Dec. 9, 2020. The Biden administration is weighing a near wholesale rollback of some … Read More

Thousands of Colombians march to protest government tax proposals

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Demonstrators take part in a protest against the tax reform of President Ivan Duque’s government in Bogota, Colombia April 28, 2021. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez Demonstrators take part in a protest against the tax reform of President Ivan Duque’s government in Bogota, … Read More

Nearly half the U.S. is in drought and conditions are expected to grow worse, NOAA says

KEY POINTS Nearly half of the continental U.S. is in a moderate to exceptional drought, government forecasters said Thursday, and conditions are expected to grow more severe and persistent over the next three months. It’s the most significant spring drought … Read More

Biden losing friends and gaining enemies

Biden’s unforced errors are killing America in the grand geopolitical game of the 21st century. US President Joe Biden speaks about foreign policy at the State Department in Washington on February 4, 2021. Photo: AFP / Saul Loeb US President … Read More

Biden picks an ill-conceived fight with Russia

Russia’s military build-up on the Ukrainian border threatens a war that will be hard to stop once it starts. Russian servicemen conduct operations during Command Post exercise of the Airborne Force at the Opuk base in Crimea. (Photo by Igor … Read More

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