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  • A road sign warns of road closures near the venue for the upcoming Group of Seven leaders summit in Carbis Bay, U.K., on Thursday, June 3, 2021. The G-7 nations plans to launch a green alternative to China’s Belt and Road initiative when the leaders meet at a summit next week, according to two people familiar with the matter. Photographer: Anthony Devlin/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesInternational

    ‘Business as usual’ will only bring us more pandemics, this Oxford economist says

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  • Carlos Ghosn, former chief executive officer of Nissan Motor Co., poses for a photograph in Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. Behind every corporate coup is a mastermind. At Nissan Motor Co., that was Hari Nada, the senior vice president orchestrated a campaign to arrest and dethrone then-Chairman Carlos Ghosn on criminal financial-misconduct allegations. Photographer: Tamara Abdul Hadi/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesInternational

    Carlos Ghosn tries one more risky gamble to save his reputation

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  • After wining the 2024 olympic organisation, Paris put the Olympics Rings at the place of Honor in front of the Eiffel tower at the Trocadero’ s place, in Paris, France, on September 18, 2017.(Photo by Julien Mattia/NurPhoto via Getty Images)International

    The biggest Olympics hurdle: Finding host cities

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  • PARIS, FRANCE – MAY 17: A cleaner is seen working at Musee d’Orsay on May 17, 2021 in Paris, France. All museums in France will be allowed to reopen on May 19th, 2021. In France, all Museum theatres and cultural institutions were closed since October 2020 due to the rise of coronavirus cases. (Photo by Pierre Suu/Getty Images)International

    Rain, absent workers, no tourists: France braces for an uncertain reopening

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  • A Vaxart blister pack shows the biotech firm’s COVID-19 vaccine, which is adapted to be administered as a pill.Health

    Forget vaccine jabs—next-generation COVID-19 pills and nasal sprays are on their way

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  • PARIS, FRANCE – OCTOBER 29: A woman wearing a protective face mask sits in front of the empty courtyard of the Louvre museum and the pyramid of Louvre as the novel coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic keeps the tourists away on October 29, 2020 in Paris, France. Following the announcements of President Emmanuel Macron to fight against the coronavirus epidemic, The Louvre museum will close its doors this evening at 6 p.m. for an indefinite period. French President Emmanuel Macron announced this Wednesday, October 28, during a live speech on television, a new lockdown of all of France starting this Friday until December 1 to help fight the coronavirus epidemic. Businesses which were defined in the spring as non-essential, including bars and restaurants, will be closed. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)International

    Americans can travel to Europe this summer. But will they want to?

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  • FRANKFURT, GERMANY – MARCH 22: Airplanes of Lufthansa are pictured on the airport on March 22, 2021 in Frankfurt, Germany. (Photo by Florian Gaertner/Photothek via Getty Images)

    Business travel may never fully recover from COVID-19, analysts warn

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  • WEST KIRBY, UNITED KINGDOM- MARCH 29: A classic Volkswagen Beetle is decorated in tribute to the NHS with social distance slogans, a mask and a giant vaccine hypodermic needle on March 29, 2021 in West Kirby, United Kingdom. Today the government eased its rules restricting outdoor socialising and sport in England, the first milestone on the government’s “roadmap” out of the Covid-19 lockdown measures imposed in December. Groups of either six people or two households can meet outside and organised outdoor sport is allowed to resume. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)Health

    The U.S. and Britain are vaccinating at a blistering pace—with very different results. Here’s what the U.K. did right

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  • People receive a dose of coronavirus Sputnik V vaccine at clinics and certain application centers allocated in shopping malls in Nur Sultan, Kazakhstan on April 13, 2021.Health

    Even as nearly 60 countries sign on, big questions still hang over Russia’s Sputnik V COVID vaccine

    By Vivienne Walt and David Meyer
  • Farmers in Ivory Coast break cocoa pods.Magazine

    Tony’s Chocolonely tries to prove that ethical chocolate and sweet profits can co-exist

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  • LUSAKA, Feb. 1, 2021 — Pupils with face masks attend a class at a private school in Lusaka, Zambia, on Feb. 1, 2021. Zambian President Edgar Lungu on Monday called for strict adherence to COVID-19 measures as schools reopen in the southern African nation. (Photo by Martin Mbangweta/Xinhua via Getty) (Xinhua/Martin Mbangweta via Getty Images)Finance

    ‘Twin crises’: For poorer countries COVID isn’t the only threat—soaring debt levels are raising alarms

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  • PARIS, FRANCE – MARCH 31: The French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech during a televised address to the nation on the new Covid-19 restrictions from the Elysee Palace on March 31, 2021 in Paris, France. Macron will address France on Wednesday to unveil tough measures aimed at curbing a new rise in Covid-19 cases that threaten to overwhelm hospitals in several parts of the country. (Photo by Marc Piasecki/Getty Images)International

    France closes schools as virus rips through the country and vaccinations lag

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  • TURIN, ITALY – MARCH 14: A female member of the school staff receives the vaccine for COVID 19 by AstraZeneca on CUS Turin University Sports Center on March 14, 2021 in Turin, Italy. About 1,000 square meters have been made available on loan free from the University Sports Center – CUS in Turin to use as a vaccination area. It is hoped that over 1,000 vacinations a day can be administered. (Photo by Stefano Guidi/Getty Images)International

    ‘A bitter failure’: Europe in turmoil over abrupt decision to halt the AstraZeneca COVID vaccine

    By Vivienne Walt, David Meyer, and others
  • A solar farm in Vermont.Environment

    Why it matters that the U.S. rejoined the Paris climate agreement

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  • TES.03.21.Tesla German GigafactoryMagazine

    Elon vs. nature: Tesla is building its new Berlin factory on an endangered reptile habitat—will it matter?

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