On August 13, 2020, the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil dispatched troops to disinfect major tourist attractions ahead of their reopening. /CFP Latin America has assumed the undesirable mantl
These days, maps depicting Africa's coronavirus caseload highlight the southern tip of the continent. South Africa, despite initially faring well as the pandemic reached its soil earlier this year, i
"Test, test, test," rang out a now-familiar voice in mid-March, a mantra often repeated in news coverage since, articulating a fundamental strategy of the World Health Organization (WHO) in fighti
New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg has bowed out of the race to become the Democratic Party's nominee for U.S. president after a dismal Super Tuesday result. On Wednesday he backed former vice pr
For China's internationally-minded millennials, the recent rise of anti-China racism abroad as a result of the novel coronavirus epidemic has been offensive, but the disease's exposure of fissures wi
2020 has started turbulently for Africa's richest woman, Isabel dos Santos.The 46-year-old business tycoon and former Angolan president's daughter, who is worth more than 2 billion U.S. dollars, p
The world's business and political elite have gathered in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos for the World Economic Forum's (WEF) annual meeting this week, but only 24 percent of attendees are wom