European stocks enter new quarter with small gains European chip companies including ASML, ASMI and Infineon Technologies, rise
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The pan-European STOXX 600 index rose 0.2 per cent in early trading, hovering just 3 points below its all-time high
European stocks kicked off the new quarter with small gains on Thursday, as optimism around a new US government spending plan eclipsed concerns of another Covid-19 wave with France imposing a third national lockdown.
The pan-European STOXX 600 index rose 0.2 per cent in early trading, hovering just 3 points below its all-time high. The benchmark ended the first quarter with a 7. per cent rise - its fourth straight quarter of gains.
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The coronavirus pandemic may be in its final stage in the U.S. But it will not be the last pandemic of the 21st century.
Since the turn of the century, SARS-CoV-2 is already the second virus to create a pandemic (the first was the H1N1 influenza in 2009) and the third coronavirus outbreak, following the first SARS crisis in 2003 and the emergence of Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome, also known as MERS, in 2012.
If the U.S. can expect roughly one global plague every 10 years, it will have to do better than it did over the past 12 months, when it shut down much of the economy to save lives but lost more than 500,000 souls anyway. In the past few weeks, I asked several scientists, epidemiologists, and other experts to tell me what they considered the foundational failure, or “original sin,” of our COVID-19 response. Was it the hemming and hawing over masks? The overly constrictive lockdowns in places that didn’t yet require them, fo
March 17, 2021 - 1:38pm
Donald Trump s presidency was defined by racism. His rhetoric and policies consistently denigrated and harmed people of color. And as he ran for a second term in 2020, his White House and campaign strategy merged into one, a broad campaign to scare white suburbanites into voting for the supposed law and order candidate.
While the Trump administration arrested racial justice and antifascist protesters and spread racist propaganda, it sought to further exploit racial divisions by targeting education on history and race. Now Republican lawmakers in several states are trying to ban a curriculum that teaches students about America s racist past.
A dioxin contaminated area in Bien Hoa Airbase. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The US Agency for International
Development (USAID) has for the first time awarded a prime construction
contract to a local Vietnamese contractor for its Dioxin Remediation at Bien
Hoa Airbase Area project.
Though Vietnamese companies have been involved in USAID
dioxin remediation work in both the Da Nang Airport remediation and Bien Hoa
Airbase remediation projects, until now they have been subcontractors of US
firms.
Through this contract, several on and off-base areas with
high levels of dioxin contamination will be environmentally remediated,
including areas of high traffic posing greater exposure risks. The contractor
The Irish Times view on war in Tigray: Ethiopia must call halt Credible reports paint a dire picture of killings, rapes and other atrocities against civilians
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People gather to mourn the victims of a massacre allegedly perpetrated by Eritrean soldiers in the village of Dengolat, north of Mekele, the capital of Tigray on February 26th. Photograph: Eduardo Soteras/ AFP via Getty Images
Internal US government reports, and credible reports from Amnesty International and the Associated Press paint a dire picture of atrocities against civilians, killings and rape, looted villages and ethnic cleansing in Tigray, the war-torn region in northern Ethiopia.