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According to Arvind Subramanian, a former chief economic adviser for the Indian government and researchers at the Center for Global Development and Harvard University, the there are an estimated 3 to 4.7 million additional deaths to those officially recorded. Hundreds of death shrouds appeared when rains washed away the top layer of sands along the Ganges in …

The US has extended its public health emergency as the Delta variant causes a new COVID surge. The number of COVID cases has tripled in the States––mostly among the unvaccinated––and misinformation about the virus and vaccine has only hindered vaccination rates. While much of the country is returning to pre-COVID life, a Delta-driven surge has …

The Chinese government has struck back at the international community, calling allegations of genocide the “biggest lie of the century.” Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs and the Uyghur Human Rights Project has released a report detailing the vast extent to which the Islamic world has collaborated with China’s campaign against the Uighur people. News …

The US has extended its public health emergency as the Delta variant causes a new COVID surge. While much of the country is returning to pre-COVID life, a Delta-driven surge has returned Arkansas to the kind of fear and suffering not seen since this time last year. Canada’s vaccination rate has overtaken the United States’s …

Paul Hodgkins, a crane operator from Florida, has the dubious honor of being the first felony sentenced in the Capitol riots. He will serve eight months in prison. Meanwhile, Brandon Fellows will have to await his own trial for participating in the Capitol riots in jail. He originally was released on bail, but after leaving …

Angela Merkel has called for climate change action after floods killed scores of people in Germany. Experts agree with her: these floods are the result of climate change, and the time to act is right now. Madrid, Spain is doing its part by building a huge forest around the city. The hope is that the …

While much of the country is returning to pre-COVID life, a Delta-driven surge has returned Arkansas to the kind of fear and suffering not seen since this time last year. Canada’s vaccination rate has overtaken the United States’s as of July 16, with 48.65% of its citizens fully vaccinated as compared to 48.05%. The US’s …

Angela Merkel has called for climate change action after floods killed scores of people in Germany. Experts agree with her: these floods are the result of climate change, and the time to act is right now. Greenland’s government has halted oil exploration of the island’s coast, saying the move was a “natural step” because it …

After the February coup, Myanmar’s health care system has virtually collapsed, leaving its citizens to fend for themselves as COVID ravages them. The World Health Organization has warned that there is a strong possibility that new, more dangerous COVID variants will emerge in the future. This does not bode well for the unvaccinated––a hospital in …

Canada’s vaccination rate has overtaken the United States’s as of July 16, with 48.65% of its citizens fully vaccinated as compared to 48.05%. The US’s slowing vaccination rates are causing issues. A hospital in Springfield, Missouri has opened its 6th virus ward as the Delta variant rages across the state. During the past two weeks …

Greenland’s government has halted oil exploration of the island’s coast, saying the move was a “natural step” because it “takes the climate crisis seriously.” According to a recent study, extreme heat and cold is killing 5 million people a year, and the number is rising as temperatures get more extreme. The United States has just …

China’s increased bellicosity in recent months has inspired the United States to send dozens of its stealth fighters, the F-22, to the western Pacific for military exercises. Last month, China sent a massive force of 28 aircraft into Taiwanese airspace, including nuclear-capable bombers, the largest and most threatening show of force yet. The Chinese government, …