COVID Goes to Court

The coronavirus is everywhere: in the air, on surfaces, in our respiratory tracts, and, over the past week, at the US Supreme Court. On...

Break the Vaccine Monopolies Now

WINNIE BYANYIMA This month, the world could have been celebrating the waning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, vaccine apartheid and restricted production continue to fuel...

Penny-Wise and Health-Foolish Members of WHO

MARIANA MAZZUCATO AND ILONA KICKBUSCH It beggars belief, but it is true: In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, the member states of the World...

Green Business After COP26

JOHAN ROCKSTROM, TOBIAS RAFFEL What is next on the global climate agenda? This year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow certainly did not...

Education in an Age of Displacement

The ongoing flood of refugees from Afghanistan — now some 2.6 million strong — is sadly no isolated tragedy. Indeed, if all of today’s...

Reconnaissance Research: Building an Omani-Kuwaiti commercial bridge

Under the patronage of the Ambassador of the Sultanate of Oman to Kuwait, H.E. Dr. Saleh Al-Kharousi, the Embassy of Oman, in cooperation with...

America’s Big Oil problem

The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is unambiguous. Humanity has already emitted enough greenhouse gases to raise the atmospheric...

Reaching Net Zero

The science is clear: to avoid the most damaging effects of climate change, the world must reach net-zero greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions around mid-century. That...

World Blood Donor Day – A unit of blood saves three lives

Each year the world commemorates World Blood Donor Day on 14 June in honor of the birth anniversary of Austrian biologist, immunologist, physician and...

Closing the vaccination gap

By- JOSEP BORRELL EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission By the end of May 2021, only 2.1 percent of Africans...