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An outbreak of a new strain of coronavirus was first reported in Wuhan, China. Cases have also been reported in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the spread of the infection a pandemic. Seeking to distinguish the virus from the disease it causes, the WHO named the virus SARS-CoV-2, and the disease Covid-19. ....
Hillary Clinton: Tech platforms must be reined in before things get worse Apr 13, 2021 7:42 AM PHT Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said technology platforms must be reined in before the situation gets worse. Clinton said this in a Hold The Line interview with Rappler CEO Maria Ressa, to be aired on Wednesday, April 14. “We’re in a situation with these platforms [that] if they’re not reined in, it’s not just the threat and the reality of the world on fire right now, it is even worse than that. It leads to a form of not just populism and nationalism, but fascism, of totalitarianism, of a kind of mind control that people have fallen into without awareness and certainly without permission,” Clinton said. ....
Two of the world’s most powerful money managers are joining forces to build a business on climate-change investing and raise one of the largest venture-capital funds dedicated to carbon-cutting technologies. BlackRock Inc. and Singapore’s Temasek Holdings Pte. formed a new firm, Decarbonization Partners, to take stakes in startups that have the potential to reduce the world’s reliance on fossil fuels and meet the goal of zero-carbon emissions in three decades. They’re committing a total of $600 million to the effort, including $300 million of seed capital for a $1 billion first fund, and raising the rest from outside investors. ....
Akanksha Arora was fighting for survival in the emergency room after a traffic accident when she realised, in the face of death, what life is. Arora said she was very lucky there was no damage to her internal organs – she was left with a broken leg and plenty of bruises – after she was hit by a taxi but the potentially fatal accident made her realise she had to make some drastic changes in her life. “God saved me for a reason. I asked myself: What have I done for the world?” Arora told Al Jazeera, adding it was then that she realised she had to make a difference. ....