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The final stretch of the talks also took place under the shadow of cuts to US foreign aid spending and threatened tariffs on pharmaceuticals. ‘It’s adopted’ Right until the last minute, disagreement lingered over a few thorny issues. Negotiators stumbled over the agreement’s Article 11, which deals with transferring technology…

(Image credit: Shutterstock) It’s hard to believe it’s been five years since the COVID-19 pandemic first hit. While life has gradually moved forward, its impact is still being felt in countless ways. COVID accelerated the development of many kinds of technology including artificial intelligence (AI). Once seen as novel and…

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says draft agreement shows multilateralism is ‘alive and well’. The members of the World Health Organization (WHO) have reached a landmark agreement on how to respond to future pandemics after more than three years of negotiations, the global health body has said. The draft agreement,…

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Photo: Depositphotos WASHINGTON, D.C.  – As Los Angeles continues to recover from the long-term effects of the pandemic and most recently the devastating wildfires, a new report released today by the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) found that the city’s recovery of international visitors from 2019 levels lags behind…

The Borderlands movie came out last year and was largely met with derision, then indifference. What did the movie in? You’ll get a different answer depending on who you ask, but director Eli Roth thinks part of the issue was when it was made. In case you forgot, Borderlands began filming in 2021 during the…

WASHINGTON, D.C.—As Los Angeles continues to recover from the long-term effects of the pandemic and most recently the devastating wildfires, a new report released by the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) found that the city’s recovery of international visitors from 2019 levels lags behind every other major U.S. city. Coupled with…

A tourist uses an Apple iPhone to take a selfie with Donald Trump impersonator Ed Weiskopf in front of the White House in Washington, D.C., US, April 9, 2025. (Reuters) Apple Inc has managed to dodge its biggest crisis since the pandemic — for the moment, at least. Donald Trump’s…

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In 2009, I spent nine months working with Doctors Without Borders in the Democratic Republic of Congo. I traded my job as a physician in London and my flat in a leafy suburb, for a guarded compound in a little village among verdant hills in North Kivu, a tumultuous region…