'Philly D.A.,' the PBS docuseries about Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, was nominated for a Peabody Award. Questlove's directorial debut, 'Summer of Soul,' also was nominated. Award winners will be announced June 6-9 on Peabody's social media channels.
China set an economic growth target of around 5.5% for the year, the lowest level in more than a quarter century of economic planning, reflecting heightened domestic and global uncertainties in a key political year for leader Xi Jinping.
BEIJING, March 4 (Xinhua) China top political advisory body started its annual session on Friday, marking the beginning of the country major annual political
China Actively Upholds Multilateralism, Jointly Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind with Afghanistan
（From Chinese Embassy in Afghanistan）
2021/02/24
Wang Yu, Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan
The world today is caught between a pandemic of the century and momentous changes never seen in the last one hundred years. Human society is going through the most serious pandemic in the past century, and the world economy is witnessing the worst recession since the end of the World War II. Unilateralism, protectionism and acts of bullying are becoming rampant, and the deficit in governance, trust, development and peace is widening instead of narrowing. What has happened to the world and how should we respond? The whole world is reflecting on this question.
ACI steps up to the plate, demanding global harmonisation of standards and processes
At least Airports Council International (ACI) World Director-General Luis Felipe de Oliveira made some salient points, on another panel (‘Restoring Cross-Border Mobility’), when he said that cooperation on global standards towards a global harmonisation of processes would help promote industry recovery from the COVID-19 crisis (even if he did choose clichés such as “seeing the light at the end of the tunnel” to express it).
Mr de Oliveira said there were some signs for optimism, but that the industry is “braced for” 1H2021 as the situation will get worse before it gets better this year . ACI expects to see light at the end of the tunnel with the development of vaccines and by using tests to reduce quarantines around Jun/Jul-2021.