The Philippines’ ferocious lockdown lingers on, despite uncertain benefits
Jul 11th 2020“I’M CONSTANTLY AFRAID that we will get infected,” frets Diverson Bloso, “We don’t have money to bring…
India’s ban on TikTok deprives the country of a favourite pastime
IN INDIA, AS elsewhere, TikTok looks like a cornucopia of bright and busy nonsense: an endless, blooming, buzzing confusion of…
A supposed detente between Japan and China is already fading
Jun 27th 2020BACK IN FEBRUARY, when covid-19 was raging in China, a young girl in Japan took Chinese social media by storm. Dressed…
India’s ban on TikTok deprives the country of a favourite pastime
IN INDIA, AS elsewhere, TikTok looks like a cornucopia of bright and busy nonsense: an endless, blooming, buzzing confusion of…
America is rapidly pulling troops from Afghanistan
FAIZA IBRAHIMI is too young to remember when the Taliban ruled Afghanistan as a theocracy. She can scarcely believe her parents’…
Inside the thieves’ guild in Freetown
LIKE MANY clubs, it is selective. Only the right sort of person may join. It has a spokesman, a financial secretary and an interim…
An animal model of covid-19 is now available
Jun 11th 2020MICE ARE, as it were, the guinea pigs of science. And these days they are often genetically engineered guinea pigs,…
American unemployment falls, but normality is still far away
The question remains: how many jobs have gone for good?Jun 5th 2020WASHINGTON, DCDIRE HEADLINES had already been prepared before…
Have Siberian fires been smouldering underground all winter?
Jun 6th 2020SEEN FROM the sky, the northern stretches of Siberia in early May were a splodgy white, their thinning winter snow…
Covid-19 quietly sweeps across Yemen
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