UN requires $ 2.5 trillion emergency package for developing nations
The United Nations has called for a $2.5tn emergency package to help developing countries cope with the crippling impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on their vulnerable [...]
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Fake news during the time of the coronavirus: how great is the threat?
In times of crisis, misinformation abounds. Covid-19 can be cured by ingesting fish-tank cleaning products. Coronavirus was developed in Chinese (or American, or French) labs. Cristiano Ronaldo and the pope tested [...]
Disclosed: Saudis suspected of phone spying in the US
Saudi Arabia appears to be exploiting weaknesses in the global mobile telecoms network to track its citizens as they travel around the US, according to a whistleblower who has shown the Guardian millions of alleged secret tracking [...]
Spain calls for action from Europe as daily deaths rise again
Spain has has joined Italy and France in demanding that Europe do more to help as it reported another record single-day increase in coronavirus deaths and moved to further tighten its already strict national [...]
Taliban refuses to speak with Afghan government negotiation team
The Taliban refused to begin talks with the Afghan government’s new negotiating team on Saturday, in a setback to the US-brokered peace process for one of the world’s longest-running [...]
Pay no attention to bankers – Trump’s economy does not cost more deaths from coronavirus
Dick Kovacevich, former CEO of Wells Fargo bank, thinks most Americans should return to work in April, urging that we “gradually bring those people back and see what [...]
Take urgent cash at all costs, but please return it
This is an economic crisis and it’s right that government takes unprecedented steps to compensate employees and the self-employed from huge income hits. But how are we going to pay for these decisions? Eventually taxes will go up, but governments need to raise cash right now as tax revenues fall and spending surges. [...]
“Focus on what you can control”: how to deal with radical uncertainty
In 1939, in a sermon preached at Oxford University in the midst of a different global crisis, CS Lewis made a distinction that’s worth revisiting today. It wasn’t the case, he pointed out, that the outbreak of war had rendered human life suddenly fragile; rather, it was that people were suddenly realising it [...]
Tesco restricts online orders to 80 items to expedite delivery
Tesco is limiting online shoppers to 80 items per order as part of a plan to increase the number of delivery slots available to vulnerable [...]
Africa will not defeat the coronavirus alone. West must dig deep before it’s too late
Fifteen years ago a group of rich countries gathered for its annual get-together at the Gleneagles hotel in Perthshire, Scotland. A number of African leaders were invited to the summit, from which a deal emerged: the west’s major powers would provide debt relief and aid in return for cleaner and better [...]