North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (Bredan Smialowski/Getty Images) Experts increasingly believe that North Korea could be using the coronavirus crisis to seek technology for biological weapons, Politico reported on Wednesday. “They could buy equipment from Western or Chinese sources that would be necessary for their vaccine effort [against the coronavirus], and then next year they could turn…
Many shops across London have permanently closed due to coronavirus (via Getty Images) More than 60 percent of London firms expect to lay off some of their furloughed employees, a survey has said, in a sign of the wave of unemployment that is to come. The Lloyds Bank business barometer found that just under one…
“Every junkie story is too long.” That was the opening line of an essay on heroin addiction I read as a teenager, and it has always stayed with me. For addicts, the relapse cycle too often repeats again and again, and that’s its special tragedy. After your first relapse, all your friends and family are…
The government’s disease-fighting agency is conflating viral and antibody tests, compromising a few crucial metrics that governors depend on to reopen their economies. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, and other states are doing the same. GETTY / THE ATLANTIC Editor’s Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here. The Centers…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump told Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Thursday he wanted to avoid a costly arms race with Russia and China and hoped for progress in arms control negotiations, the White House said. “President Trump reiterated his hope of avoiding an expensive three-way arms race between China, Russia, and the United…
Demonstrators greet Prime Minister Boris Johnson as he visits the Orkney Islands on July 23, 2020 | Robert Perry/Getty Images Not such a warm welcome as UK prime minister visits Scotland. The first time Boris Johnson visited Scotland as prime minister, he faced a reception so frosty he left a meeting with the first minister via the…
UNICEF says the number of malnourished children could increase to 2.4 million Issa Nasser, a 7-month-old Yemeni child, was suffering from severe malnutrition last week. “I don’t have anything to give him,” his father, a local fisherman, told The Associated Press. This week, Nasser is dead – one of thousands of children expected to die of starvation this year…
Locals wade through floodwater after bursting of a river in Beledweyne, central Somalia, May 17, 2020. (Xinhua/Hassan Bashi) Flash floods caused by heavy rains have affected about 37,000 people in Somalia, causing a humanitarian crisis in the regions affected, Somalia’s Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs said on Tuesday. The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management…
The 11-count indictment alleges the Chinese nationals hacked into hundreds of computer systems. The Department of Justice announced Tuesday it has charged two Chinese hackers with trying to steal U.S. COVID-19 research as well as other sensitive information from businesses and government agencies. The 11-count indictment against Li Xiaoyu, 34, and Dong Jiazhi, 31, alleges the Chinese nationals hacked into the computer…