WhatsApp pilots new fact-check feature to spot fake news
SINGAPORE, Aug 5, 2020, ST. Popular messaging service WhatsApp has stepped up the fight against…
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WHO says China team interviewed Wuhan scientists over virus origins
GENEVA, Aug 4, 2020, Reuters. A World Health Organization team in China to probe the…
[Analytics] WHO leader is stuck between feuding China and US
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was watching late-night television when he saw a hospital boss criticizing him…
[Analytics] ‘Vaccine nationalism’: Is it every country for itself?
It’s dog eat dog in the world of COVID-19 vaccines. Kate Kelland, Julie Steenhuysen specially…
[Analytics] Will Covid-19 kill cash?
Four years ago, Kenneth Rogoff, a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF),…
[Analytics] End game for oil? OPEC prepares for an age of dwindling demand
The coronavirus crisis may have triggered the long-anticipated tipping point in oil demand and it…
Tourism investments down by $3T in 2020 due to pandemic
ISTANBUL, Jul 19, 2020, VOSA. Investments in tourism have dropped by $3 trillion worldwide in…
UN Secretary General initiates New Global Deal for fairer world order
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 19, 2020, TASS. United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has put forward…
[Post-Covid World] How Covid-19 will change air travel as we know it
In 2001, air travel was dealt a massive blow by the 11 September attacks, and…
Six candidates battle it out for WTO leadership
GENEVA, Jul 8, 2020, AFP. Six candidates are vying to become the next head of…