North Korea’s Hacking Grows
North Korea’s hacking capabilities are growing significantly, which allows the country to rob financial institutions and evade international sanctions.
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April 2020
Vulnerable Populations: COVID-19 and the Risk of Leaving Developing States Behind
As Americans lament the social distancing measures in place to combat COVID-19, thousands of the world’s most vulnerable populations face an even greater challenge than closed nightclubs and toilet paper shortages.
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Government Interventions, Public Health Responses, and the Economics of Pandemics
As the world hits over a million total confirmed cases of COVID-19, the world economy remains in a comatose state due to government mitigation policies designed to slow the infection rate of the virus.
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“Wake-Up Call”: How the Coronavirus Can Impact Climate Change
Ultimately, the COVID-19 pandemic will not offer up a solution to climate change. Even though it may have given the Earth a much-needed breather, government interventionist policies could end up doing more harm in the long run.
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Misinformation and the Rise of the “Infodemic”
Since COVID-19 first entered the collective consciousness of media and society, people far and wide continue to spread all information they can gather on the virus. Unfortunately, whether maliciously intended or not, this has led to the widespread dissemination of misinformation on a viral scale.
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Flattening the Curve: Pandemic Response and the East-West Dichotomy
Because Europe and the United States’ failure to establish equivalent early warning systems, these countries will be placed on the frontline of a battle without adequate resources, forced to wage a war with no end in immediate sight.
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COVID-19 and Emergency Ethics: A New Dimension of Medical and Political Response
As the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic increases at an alarming rate, the hypothetical shortages of ventilators and hospital beds are now a haunting reality.
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Improvements Seen in Global Air Pollution Levels from COVID-19 Efforts
As countries and cities around the world begin to take measures to contain and prevent the spread of COVID-19, the environmental impact from the virus has become apparent.
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Coronavirus Cases in China Reach a New High in Recent Weeks
China has reached its highest number of daily cases in nearly six weeks, with 108 patients reported as of April 12.
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OPEC Plus Deal Ends Oil Price War
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and other involved nations, collectively known as OPEC+, have come to an agreement where every oil-producing nation will cut production.
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