The problem is that 85 of the 194 countries surveyed by the WHO technical advisory group that came up with the new estimates don’t have good enough death registries for this to be a viable approach. Forty-one of those countries are in sub-Saharan Africa. For these countries, a team led by Jonathan Wakefield, a statistician…
Turkey conducts air strikes in northern Iraq, hours after a suicide blast hit the interior ministry in Ankara. Source link
As political tensions with India remain at an all-time high, the Trudeau government is preparing to make some incremental progress with a key ally in its Indo-Pacific strategy — Japan. Japan’s minister of economy, trade and industry will be in Ottawa Thursday to sign a memorandum of cooperation on electric vehicle supply chains. Yasutoshi Nishimura…
Six months after Evan Gershkovich was arrested by Russian security services, accused of espionage and sent to a notoriously harsh Moscow prison, his family is steeling for an indeterminable wait. From their home city of Philadelphia, his parents and sister wait for updates from Mr. Gershkovich’s employer, The Wall Street Journal, whose lawyers are fighting…
After almost two hours in Ukraine, Biden’s motorcade returned to Slovakia. The US first lady has been on a tour of Eastern Europe to meet with American troops and Ukrainian refugees. Earlier on Sunday, she met with volunteers in Slovakia assisting refugees and visited another school where children were making crafts projects for Mother’s Day….