Pandemic

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The last 10 global climate summits have played out on vastly different stages: from the hopeful consensus of the Paris Agreement through a subsequent pandemic shock, petrostate spectacles and a hoped-for reckoning with environmental justice in the Amazon. But the new scripts often seem like reruns, with minor plot twists;…

“One-armed beggars selling pencils, but we cannot spare a dime,” goes Bobby Goldboro’s song, “Does anyone know it’s Christmas?” “Save it for the parking meter or we’ll have to pay a fine.” That classic came to mind as I scanned the current global landscape and observed an alarming shortage of…

A tourism sector representative says Hong Kong is ideally situated to benefit as cruises become increasingly popular after the pandemic. Speaking on RTHK's Backchat programme, the Executive Director of the Travel Industry Council, Fanny Yeung, said Hong Kong has sufficient tourism products to cater to cruise passengers, including in-depth local…

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An outer view of Bombay High Court. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Kolhapur Bench of the Bombay High Court on Tuesday (December 23, 2025) directed the Maharashtra government to grant the ₹50 lakh ex gratia insurance benefit to the family of a contractual data entry operator who died of…

Retail leasing across the top cities is expected to end at 9 million square feet (MSF), the highest annual absorption since the pandemic and a sharp rise over 7.8 MSF in 2024, according to Cushman & Wakefield’s ‘India Outlook 2026’ report. The strong year-end closure that is expected reflects a…

The Trump administration will restart wage garnishment for Americans in default on federal student loans early next year. The move marks the first new round of wage seizures since the pandemic-era pause on collections. The US Department of Education confirmed the decision on Monday. Beginning the week of January 7,…

BALTIMORE — David Fitzgerald knows how tough it is to prevent gun violence. In 15 years working in some of Baltimore’s deadliest neighborhoods for a program called Safe Streets, he said, he’s defused hundreds of fights that could have led to a shooting. The effort, part of Baltimore’s more than…

The first moment in my life when people began to talk about movies as if they could go away tomorrow was right after the pandemic struck. At that point, no one knew which end was up, but with America’s movie theaters having closed down, movies had gone away — at…