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Municipality workers remove debris from the streets after flooding in Sheikh Jalal district, Baghlan province, Afghanistan May 12, 2024.
Hard Numbers

Hard Numbers: Devastating floods, COVID reporter released, Catalonia votes, Swiss contestant wins Eurovision

Ian Explains: Who does China and Russia want to win the US election, Biden or Trump?
Ian Explains

Ian Explains: Who does China and Russia want to win the US election, Biden or Trump?

America’s biggest adversaries, Russia and China, are hoping for a Trump win in the 2024 US election, Ian Bremmer explains on GZERO World.

World Bank economist: The poorest are getting poorer globally
Sustainability

World Bank economist: The poorest are getting poorer globally

The combined shocks of multiple crises, including the pandemic, wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, food insecurity, and inflation, have taken a massive toll on the 75 least developed economies, according to World Bank Group’s Deputy Chief Economist Ayhan Kose.

How can the world build back better public health after COVID?
Crisis Recovery

How can the world build back better public health after COVID?

Every year, over ten million people globally die from high blood pressure, more than all infectious diseases combined. Dr. Tom Frieden, former director of the Centers for Disease Control, is tackling this massive problem in public health, among many others, as CEO of Resolve to Save Lives.

Ian Explains: Is the world better today thanks to human progress?
Ian Explains

Ian Explains: Is the world better today thanks to human progress?

Our body clocks stop ticking at some point, but that’s not the same as reaching a destination, or achieving a goal. So how do we—as a community, as a country...as a world—define progress? What does “better” even look like?

“Health is a human right”: How the world can make up progress lost to COVID
Crisis Recovery

“Health is a human right”: How the world can make up progress lost to COVID

2 billion people are facing "catastrophic or impoverishing" health spending worldwide according to the World Health Organization. And governments in the Global South are taking on more and more debt at the expense of investment in health and social services.

A medical worker administers a nasal swab to a patient at a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing center
GZERO North

Hard Numbers: COVID hospitalizations, fiery moves, banking job cuts, traffic jams

21.6 & 7: Data from the CDC and Canada’s government show that, since last week, COVID-19 hospitalization rates have risen in the US and Canada by 21.6% and 7%, respectively.

Students from the Covenant School in Nashville, Tenn., hold hands after getting off a bus to meet their parents at the reunification site following a mass shooting.
Economy

Hard Numbers: Nashville school shooting, Rohingya flee to Indonesia, Deutsche disruption, America’s tumbling tolerance, white-collar AI wipeout

Three young children and three adults were killed in a school shooting in Nashville.

Silicon Valley Bank collapse: Not 2008 all over again
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Silicon Valley Bank collapse: Not 2008 all over again

With the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, is it 2008 all over again? As China reopens to tourism, is COVID finally behind us? Will the AUKUS deal shift the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific region? Ian Bremmer shares his insights on global politics this week on World In :60.

Red-tone illustration of logos of the New York Times, Twitter, Fox News, and the symbols of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party beside an image of the Wuhan Institute of Virology
by ian bremmer

Lessons from the COVID lab-leak fiasco

We still don’t know how the pandemic got started. So … what more is there to say about this?