Since April 2020, the World Bank has produced the COVID-19 Trade Watch series, which tracks trade flows in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. The series relies on real-time shipping data, ...

setting alarm bells ringing among aid groups around the world that depend on U.S. largesse. Humanitarian organisations and U.N. agencies say they could face drastic curbs on their ability to ...

A metaphor for the dangers facing humanity, the clock is updated based on perceptions about how close humans are to destroying the world - with midnight symbolising that point. The countdown is ...

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has expressed grave concern over the escalating insecurity in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), following the abduction of a family and ...

Since its inception in 1947 by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, the Doomsday Clock has warned humanity how close the world is to catastrophe every year, with midnight acting as a symbol of the ...

Again, it’s just a metaphor and the world won’t instantly explode if midnight is the designated time. 2024’s Doomsday Clock announcement saw the hands at 90 seconds to midnight, the highest ...

With respect to climate change, 2024 was in many ways similar to 2023: Manifestations of a changed climate continued to be felt increasingly across the world, even as the clean-energy transition ...

But returning to an old-fashioned alarm clock instead of your phone might help you get up and go in the morning. “Keeping the phone in another room will likely decrease the opportunity for ...

Their answers set the clock for the coming year. Two years later, as those same scientists contemplated a world in which two atomic weapons had been used in Japan, they gathered to discuss the ...

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