Since the spring, the border between the United States and Canada has been closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This closure impacts the lives of hundreds of thousands of American patients, who are used to buying...
Macron vows to support Belarus people in talks with exiled opposition leader
French President Emmanuel Macron was in Lithuania Tuesday, in talks with exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya in a bid to resolve the country’s political crisis. The meeting was...
Mass death of elephants in Botswana: climate change is a ‘threat amplifier’
Climate change is a “threat amplifier”. It takes tough scenarios and makes them more likely to happen and more frequent. That’s the view of passionate biologist and activist Niall McCann, who says the...
Trump and Biden to outline competing visions in first debate
Donald Trump and Joe Biden go head to head Tuesday in the first debate of the US presidential campaign, in Cleveland Ohio. The president and former vice president will seek to outline their very different visions of the...
French telcos bid on rights to 5G network
French telecommunications operators are bidding for the rights to 5G networks, which promises download speeds up to 10 times faster than 4G, even while the technology’s impact on health and the environment is not yet...
Diamonds are forever: in Hong Kong, there’s burial, cremation, or becoming a gem
IN THE PAPERS – Tuesday, 29.09.2020: We take a look at an increasingly popular and frugal trend in Hong Kong: being turned into a gem, instead of being buried. We also discuss how the American press is covering the run...
Covid-19: dozens of UK universities hit by infection clusters
Students at UK universities have been forced to curtail their on-campus activities as the country struggles to contain a surge in coronavirus cases. Clusters have popped up at some universities, mostly due to illegal...