Two of China’s largest corporations are facing backlash: Ant Group has seen competing lending platforms emerge on the wake of the scrapping of the groups’ IPO in November, after the government’s crackdown on the...
The Guardian – Julian Borger / Iran nuclear deal: US agrees to join talks brokered by EU The US has agreed to take part in multilateral talks with Iran hosted by the EU, with the aim of negotiating a return by both countries to the 2015 nuclear...
Financial Times – Jamie Smyth, Hannah Murphy and Alex Barker / Facebook ban on news in Australia provokes fierce backlash Facebook’s decision to block the sharing of news in Australia restricted access to critical public information on government...
The Washington Post – Annie Gowen, Andrew Freedman, Tim Craig and Fenit Nirappil / Dangerous Arctic chill leaves more than a dozen dead, widespread power outages across the Southern US A crippling Arctic blast continued to wreak havoc across a large...
The New York Times – Ana Swanson / W.T.O. officially selects Okonjo-Iweala as its Director General The World Trade Organization on Monday officially selected Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a Nigerian economist and former finance minister, to be its next...
Week 6 of 2021 has been relatively calm at the EU level, particularly when compared to the previous two weeks. It has been a week of economic hope, with the approval of the Recovery and Resilience Facility –part of NextGenEU– by the European...
The Washington Post – Amy B Wang / Trump’s acquittal further polarizes factions within the GOP One day after the Senate acquitted former president Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial, Republicans continued to diverge in what the future of...
Protests continue in Myanmar after the February 1 coup. For the past week, citizens have been taking to the streets in demonstrations against the military junta and its takeover, claiming for the end of their rule and the freedom of Aung San Suu...