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Rijksmuseum

How art galleries are adapting to the lockdown

Some of the joys of viewing art are hard to replicate on-screenART BASEL HONG KONG, Asia’s biggest contemporary-art fair, was cancelled because of covid-19, but anyone who had planned to visit last week could enjoy an experimental alternative: the viewing room. At the click of a keyboard, you could enter…

bubmagMarch 26, 2020

Mexico Border Wall

Mexico and the United States shut their border, sort of

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 more coverage, see our coronavirus hubTIJUANA AND San Diego are rumbustious siblings. The San Ysidro border crossing,…

bubmagMarch 26, 2020

Nukes

Not Good: Why Russia and America Are Racing to Build Intermediate-Range Nuclear Missiles

Key point: Washington and Moscow are building new missiles once banned under the INF Treaty. How much might this destabilize the world? The U.S. military on Aug. 18, 2019 successfully tested a ground-launched, intermediate-range, nuclear-capable cruise missile. It’s exactly the kind of kind of missile that the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces…

bubmagMarch 26, 2020

Jamal Khashoggi

Senate Votes on COVID-19 Bill as Wall Street Excels, Main Street Holds the Bag

The Critical Hour23:24 GMT 25.03.2020(updated 09:32 GMT 26.03.2020) Get short URL 0 0 0 On this episode of The Critical Hour, Dr. Wilmer Leon is joined by Dr. Linwood Tauheed, associate professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City; and Richard Lachmann, American sociologist and professor at the State…

bubmagMarch 26, 2020

Silk Road

China Pushes ‘Health Silk Road’ to Take over Global Health Care

Chinese state media on Wednesday pushed the notion of a “Health Silk Road,” modeled after the New Silk Road infrastructure program, which later came to be known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). In other words, having infected the entire planet with the Wuhan coronavirus, the Chinese Communist Party…

bubmagMarch 26, 2020

Narendra Modi

Mahabharat took 18 days, this war will take 21: PM

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the 21-day national lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus was bound to cause disruptions but the choice was stark as social distancing and isolation were the only and best means to ensure the disease did not extract an incalculable cost.…

bubmagMarch 26, 2020

Christchurch

New Zealand mosque shooter changes plea to guilty

One year after killing 51 worshippers at two Christchurch mosques, an Australian man accused over the massacre has changed his plea to guilty. Brenton Harrison Tarrant, 29, pleaded guilty to 51 counts of murder, 40 counts of attempted murder and one count of terrorism. The killing spree was the deadliest…

bubmagMarch 26, 2020

Times Square

BTS Own Half Of The World Albums Chart—Again

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 31: BTS performs during the Times Square New Year's Eve 2020 ... Celebration on December 31, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Stewart/WireImage,) WireImage, While it has started to work its way down on a number of Billboard charts, BTS’s Map of…

bubmagMarch 25, 2020

Greta Thunberg

$2 trillion relief package? ✅ (almost)

The Senate is close to passing a $2 trillion economic relief package. Prince Charles has contracted coronavirus. And while colleges across the country are sending students home, Liberty University is inviting them back. It's Alex and Steve. Did you know that it's Wednesday?But first, you may want to disinfect (literally) everything. The novel coronavirus can…

bubmagMarch 25, 2020

Genocide

Mosque gunman: Who is Brenton Tarrant? The making of a mass killer

Brenton Tarrant this morning unexpectedly pleaded guilty to the murder of 51 people in Christchurch on March 15. Born in Australia, Tarrant's pathway to New Zealand's darkest day took him around the world, and through the ugliest parts of the internet. He slipped into the country and lived a hermit's…

bubmagMarch 25, 2020

How art galleries are adapting to the lockdown

Mexico and the United States shut their border, sort of

Not Good: Why Russia and America Are Racing to Build Intermediate-Range Nuclear Missiles

Senate Votes on COVID-19 Bill as Wall Street Excels, Main Street Holds the Bag

China Pushes ‘Health Silk Road’ to Take over Global Health Care

Mahabharat took 18 days, this war will take 21: PM

New Zealand mosque shooter changes plea to guilty

BTS Own Half Of The World Albums Chart—Again

$2 trillion relief package? ✅ (almost)

Mosque gunman: Who is Brenton Tarrant? The making of a mass killer

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