While Chinese authorities may gradually ease restrictions in March, zero-Covid policies are beginning to erode global trust in the country's industrial supply chains, according to Li Daokui, Mansfield Freeman professor of economics at Tsinghua University in China.   According to Li, a former...

According to papers on its website, the UN has suggested allocating the greatest sum ever for humanitarian needs next year. $51.5 billion, a 25% increase from the start of this year, could be set aside for this purpose, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs paper....

Rare uprisings happened all across China during the weekend as people let out their displeasure with the zero-Covid policy of the Chinese government.   The unrest occurred as infections increased, necessitating increased local Covid controls, while a central government policy...

Small NATO members are no longer able to provide Ukraine with weaponry, a source told The New York Times. He claimed that while the stockpiles of 20 of the alliance's 30 member countries are "nearly at zero," the remaining 10 can still produce further weapons. France, Germany, Italy, and the...

The first US state to impose restrictions on cryptocurrency (mining) was New York. A bill that would put a two-year embargo on the issuing of new permits, as well as renewal and expansion of current licenses for mining companies to utilize the premises of nearby fossil-energy power plants was...

Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, stated on Saturday that engagement was the only means of advancing human rights and called hypocrites who criticized the treatment of migrant workers by World Cup host Qatar.   On the eve of the tournament, Infantino took aim at European critics of...

The FT has discovered that Russia will be permitted to utilize a pipeline to pump ammonia across Ukraine in exchange for agreeing to extend the grain agreement. According to sources cited by the Financial Times, Russia and Ukraine are close to reaching an agreement to renew the grain deal involving...

On November 14, the British interior minister Suella Braverman met with the French interior minister Gérald Darmanin in Paris. An agreement will be signed at the conference to increase collaboration between the two nations in the fight against illegal immigration across the English Channel,...

The European Commission (EC) has authorized Germany to receive financial assistance of €225.6 million to support Russian Gazprom's former German subsidiary SEFE GmbH. According to the EC, this sum will enable the German government to fully nationalize SEFE by purchasing all of its shares. The EC...