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- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2021/4/23
Good morning, Quartz readers!Here’s what you need to knowIndia’s Covid crisis deepens. With travel bans increasing (see below), more than 33...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2021/4/23
Earlier this year, a digital “toolkit” had riled up the Indian government so much that it called it “an international conspiracy” and arrest...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2021/4/23
America has been a longstanding partner to Africa’s nations and its people, leading in aid and development assistance, healthcare, and the f...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2021/4/23
In 2010, the Japanese government had a rude wakeup call: Beijing had abruptly cut off all rare earth exports to Japan over a fishing trawler...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2021/4/23
India’s memories of last year’s lockdown are so bitter that political leaders in the country now seem afraid of using that word.For instance...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2021/4/23
The Delhi high court on Thursday dismissed petitions filed by Facebook and WhatsApp against a Competition Commission of India (CCI) order to...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2021/4/22
The nerdiest gig in Hollywood is also one of its most coveted. Actors, athletes, journalists, and TV personalities are lining up to be the n...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2021/4/22
The Indian diaspora—the world’s largest, at 18 million—is watching loved ones struggle through the largest Covid-19 outbreak on Earth, and t...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2021/4/22
In 1954, US president Dwight Eisenhower used domino theory to explain what would happen if Vietnam fell to communism; it was a geopolitical...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2021/4/22
Young people have always been critical of their elders. What’s noteworthy about the way millennials and Zoomers talk about Baby Boomers toda...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2021/4/22
The UK’s parliament voted today (April 22) to endorse a motion accusing Chinese authorities of committing crimes against humanity in its tre...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2021/4/22
For the top names in luxury fashion, the pandemic doldrums appear to be firmly behind them—except in Europe, that is.Hermès today posted ste...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2021/4/22
A mantra of press freedom advocates is that “journalism is not a crime.” But a mainstay of investigative journalism—public records database...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2021/4/22
Good morning, Quartz readers!Here’s what you need to knowIndia sets a grim coronavirus record. The country reported the highest single-day i...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2021/4/22
Apartheid chiseled race and gendered othering into the every day lives of South Africans. National identity numbers, given to every citizen...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2021/4/22
A scroll through prime minister Narendra Modi’s Twitter feed offers a glimpse into India’s battle with a raging second wave of Covid-19. As...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2021/4/22
On April 21, as India reported the largest single-day spike of nearly 316, 000 Covid-19 cases, several hospitals across the country expresse...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2021/4/22
For decades, infrastructure for coal, oil, and gas was seen as a relatively safe investment delivering strong returns, and renewables barely...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2021/4/22
India has now crossed the milestone for the highest single-day Covid-19 spike for any country in the world.Yesterday (April 21), the country...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2021/4/21
Everything you need to know about bankruptcy in five minutes or less, including how rough the process used to be in Europe and its protectio...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2021/4/21
Following a record-breaking 2020, Netflix’s subscription growth has slowed dramatically so far this year. The company says that has everythi...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2021/4/21
The Biden administration is trying to decide if China is a rival or partner when it comes to climate change. This week, US officials seemed...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2021/4/21
The courtroom verdict that turned Derek Chauvin into a convicted murderer this week brought ripples of celebration across the United States,...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2021/4/21
On the heels of a successful visit to China by US climate envoy John Kerry this week, Chinese president Xi Jinping accepted an invitation to...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2021/4/21
A recently published letter by a group of prominent African scientists and health practitioners to international funders has reignited a con...