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Uganda looks online for answers to COVID economic crisis
From banking, to food delivery, and taxi bookings, Uganda is rapidly becoming accustomed to many of the online tools that are commonplace in developed economies, and which don’t rely on…
Europe
Interception, no solution to address migrants crossing English Channel
Intercepting boats full of migrants attempting to cross the English Channel, is not the solution to deter them from attempting to reach the United Kingdom, UN agencies have stressed, warning…
Europe
EIOPA publishes bi-weekly information for Relevant Risk Free Interest Rate Term Structures and Symmetric Adjustment to Equity
EIOPA publishes bi-weekly information for Relevant Risk Free Interest Rate Term Structures and Symmetric Adjustment to Equity
Europe
Indonesia: Statement by the Spokesperson on the 15th anniversary of the signature of the Helsinki Peace Agreement for Aceh
15 August 2020 marks the fifteenth anniversary of the signature of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of Indonesia and the Free Aceh Movement. The peace agreement brought an…
Books
China Literature Loses Big During the Pandemic
China Literature, China's top online publishing and bookselling platform, lost $465 million in the first six months of the year, prompting executives to say the company business model and culture…
Christianity
German church leads crowd funding to buy vessel to aid stranded Mediterranean migrants
Germany's main Protestant church led a crowdfunding effort that purchased the rescue ship Sea-Watch 4 that is ready for work in the Mediterranean Sea to help migrants trying to reach…
Europe
Balkans’ fact-checkers join Facebook against disinformation
Balkans’ fact-checkers join Facebook against disinformation
Europe
Measles and rubella elimination: verification process continues amid COVID-19 pandemic
Public health systems and independent national verification committees in countries of the WHO European Region have shown continued commitment to measles and rubella elimination even with the COVID-19 pandemic creating…
Europe
Belarus: UN rights chief condemns violence against protesters, calls for grievances to be heard
The flow of free information is “crucial” in a democratic society, the UN human rights chief said on Wednesday, spotlighting the landlocked eastern European nation of Belarus, “especially in a…