World leaders hope for fresh start after Biden win
World leaders on Sunday cheered Joe Biden’s election as U.S. president as a chance to enhance cooperation on climate change, the coronavirus and other problems...
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Venezuela abandons socialist principles with plan to privatise oil industry
“Maduro has run out of options,” Raul Gallegos, director of Control Risks, a political-risk consultancy, told The Telegraph. “Venezuela still has the largest crude reserves...
Healthcare Supply Safety Net Set To Launch In November
GLEN ALLEN, Va., Nov. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — COVID-19 exposed a highly vulnerable medical supply chain de-stabilized by the complete lack of visibility and access to...
Inquiry urges Australians to avoid building homes in bushfire areas as disaster risk grows, Australia/NZ News & Top Stories
SYDNEY – A long-awaited report into Australia’s devastating bushfires last summer has provided an ominous insight into a post-global warming future and raised questions about...
Ethiopia Crisis Response Plan 2020 – Ethiopia
Funding Required $77,600,000 People In Need 8,000,000 Target Beneficiaries 1,200,000 IOM Vision IOM Ethiopia plans to provide timely and tailored humanitarian assistance and resilience programming...
Ann Arbor’s Logistics Software Company LLamasoft Bought For $1.5 billion
ANN ARBOR – Officials at San Mateo, Calif.-based Coupa Software Inc. announced this week the acquisition of LLamasoft, the Ann Arbor-based supply chain design and...
Nigeria, Yemen and others risk falling into famine in 6 months- UN
The United Nation’s World Food Programme with the Food and Agriculture Organization has warned that Nigeria could face a “major (food) emergency… or series of emergencies”...
Steep defense spending cuts are unlikely under a Biden administration, executives say
Compared with others who sought the Democratic nomination — notably Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) — Biden is a known quantity. “Our...
Biden’s ‘liberal’ credentials will be tested on Uyghur issue
Lecturing India will be seen as mere rhetoric. There is a good chance that when you read this, the US elections may still have...
Biden to Face Long List of Foreign Challenges, With China No. 1
U.S. relations with China are the worst since the countries normalized ties four decades ago. America’s allies in Europe are alienated. The most important nuclear...