Hélas Gets Referential in Eclectic Spring 2020 Collection
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bubmagMay 14, 2020
Coronavirus drives health insurers back to Obamacare
United Healthcare on Tuesday said it’s re-entering Maryland’s Obamacare market and planning other expansions after abandoning 34 states’ ACA exchanges since 2016. | Jim Mone/AP Photo Health insurers fled the Affordable Care Act in the early years of the law, fearing that losses from covering too many sick people would…
bubmagMay 14, 2020
Batman’s Mor Kiryakus Monastery to serve tourism with renovation
ISTANBUL The Mor Kiryakus Monastery, built on a 2,500 square meter area in Batman in the 5th century, is planned to be restored in three stages. The first phase of the restoration works at the Mor Kiryakus Monastery in Beşiri district of the southeastern province of Batman has ended. The…
bubmagMay 14, 2020
How COVID-19 is destroying Africa’s tourism industry
Africa's tourism industry has been hard hit by coronavirus lockdowns. Overnight, hotel bookings were canceled, safaris postponed and cultural tours abandoned. DW meets operators struggling to stay afloat. At the beginning of 2020, Africa's tourism sector looked set for a lucrative year. The continent had the world's second fastest growing…
bubmagMay 14, 2020
France accuses Venezuela of harassing embassy, summons envoy
By John IrishPARIS (Reuters) - France has summoned Venezuela's envoy over accusations President Nicolas Maduro's government has been harassing its embassy in Caracas, including by cutting water and electricity to the ambassador's residence, diplomats said on Thursday.France is among dozens of nations which do not recognise Maduro's disputed 2018 re-election…
bubmagMay 14, 2020
The European Union is having a bad crisis
Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For our coronavirus tracker and more coverage, see our hubSEVENTY YEARS ago this month Robert Schuman, the French…
bubmagMay 14, 2020
US has only accepted two refugees since March under Trump’s new border rules
The Trump administration’s emergency restrictions in response to the coronavirus have shut the US immigration system so tight that just two refugees at the southern border have been allowed to stay since 21 March, according to unpublished data from US Citizenship and Immigration Services (Uscis). Citing the threat to public…
bubmagMay 14, 2020
UN health agency chief unbowed amid attacks, Trump criticism
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization’s director-general has faced many challenges during the coronavirus pandemic: racial slurs, death threats, social media caricatures — he was once depicted as a ventriloquist’s dummy in the hands of Chinese President Xi Jinping — and U.S. funding cuts.Through it all, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus…
bubmagMay 14, 2020
UN health agency chief unbowed amid attacks, Trump criticism
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization’s director-general has faced many challenges during the coronavirus pandemic: racial slurs, death threats, social media caricatures — he was once depicted as a ventriloquist’s dummy in the hands of Chinese President Xi Jinping — and U.S. funding cuts.Through it all, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus…
bubmagMay 14, 2020