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As Amazon speeds up, a warehouse community braces for a deadly combo: air pollution and coronavirus Air Pollution

As Amazon speeds up, a warehouse community braces for a deadly combo: air pollution and coronavirus

Earlier this week, Amazon announced that it will hire 100,000 warehouse and delivery workers across the country to handle the online shopping surge caused by the COVID-19 outbreak. This may be welcome news for those facing job losses and customers hoping for speedier deliveries of essential goods. But some in…
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March 21, 2020
Bangladesh to get $170m from World Bank for sanitation in Dhaka Water Pollution

Bangladesh to get $170m from World Bank for sanitation in Dhaka

The World Bank has approved $170 million to improve sanitation services in Dhaka city, benefiting around 1.5 million people. The Dhaka Sanitation Improvement Project will help improve Dhaka’s livability with safely managed sanitation services, particularly in its southern part of the city. The project will treat sewage and septage, which…
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March 21, 2020
Ukraine’s Quiet Depopulation Crisis Ukraine

Ukraine’s Quiet Depopulation Crisis

The government is trying to entice its people back, not entirely successfully. Maxim Edwards March 21, 2020 On the train from Slavutych to the nuclear power station of ChernobylGueorgui Pinkhassov / MagnumUkraine’s president wanders the deserted streets of the capital, Kyiv, feasting in vacated supermarkets and ringing the bells of…
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March 21, 2020
Panic buying, lockdowns during this pandemic may drive world food inflation Spanish Flu

Panic buying, lockdowns during this pandemic may drive world food inflation

SINGAPORE: Lockdowns and panic food buying due to the coronavirus pandemic could ignite world food inflation even though there are ample supplies of staple grains and oilseeds in key exporting nations, a senior economist at FAO and agricultural analysts said. The world's richest nations poured unprecedented aid into the global…
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March 21, 2020
Information war Trade War

Information war

Written by Pratik Kanjilal | Published: March 21, 2020 10:33:59 am US President Donald Trump takes questions during the coronavirus response daily briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 20, 2020. REUTERSContrary to received wisdom, in times of distress, the mind does not turn to higher things. The…
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March 21, 2020
U.S. seeks comments on tariff cuts for Chinese imports to aid coronavirus battle Trade War

U.S. seeks comments on tariff cuts for Chinese imports to aid coronavirus battle

By David LawderWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Friday said it was soliciting public comments on lifting additional tariffs on Chinese imports that could help the United States battle the coronavirus pandemic, showing some flexibility in its trade war against Beijing.The U.S. Trade Representative's (USTR) office said it would…
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March 21, 2020
U.S. seeks comments on tariff cuts for Chinese imports to aid coronavirus battle Trade War

U.S. seeks comments on tariff cuts for Chinese imports to aid coronavirus battle

By David LawderWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Friday said it was soliciting public comments on lifting additional tariffs on Chinese imports that could help the United States battle the coronavirus pandemic, showing some flexibility in its trade war against Beijing.The U.S. Trade Representative's (USTR) office said it would…
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March 21, 2020