For months, Natalia Pasternak has been pleading with Brazilians to take science and coronavirus seriously, in a marathon of TV appearances, newspaper columns, livestreams and podcasts. “I gave interviews at 2 o’clock,” said the microbiologist and broadcaster who manages a group of civil society, the Question of Science Institute. When …
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Thousands of Protestants rocked Lebanon’s parliamentary area on Sunday, demanding the government’s fall in the wake of the catastrophic explosion that destroyed parts of Beirut last week. The violent rally took place around sunset, when an international donor conference launched to fund the enormous cost of recovery decided that the …
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In contrast, at least Europe seems to have the virus under control. “If medical professionals were allowed to operate in the United States, you would arrive late in March to recover,” said Scott Lucas, Professor of International Studies at the University of Birmingham, England. “But of course, the medical and …
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Former Health Minister Jair Bolsonaro has accused the Brazilian president of not offering “one word of comfort” to the families of the 100,000 Brazilians who lost their lives to Covid-19. In an interview, the latest Covid-19 milestone from Brazil, utter Luiz Henrique Mandetta – who was fired in April after …
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The Lebanese owner of a cruise ship sunk by the enormous explosion that destroyed the port of Beirut is conducting a lawsuit in “all that responsibility”, the country’s landowner said, as anger rages over the disaster. Two crew members of the Queen of the Orient were killed and seven others …
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