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Homi Kharas and Andrew Rogerson This year could prove—indeed must prove, for humanity’s sake—a watershed in terms of international commitments to halt unsustainable global warming in the runup to...

Addisu Lashitew and Majune K. Socrates This study analyzes how Kenya’s import and export trade was affected by lockdown policies during the COVID-19 outbreak. Analysis is conducted...

Simone Iglesias and Matthew Malinowski The Brazilian real is down 11 percent so far this year, the worst among major currencies, as a raging virus...

Trump-era policy made immigrants who receive wide range of public benefits ineligible for legal status in the US. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/10/biden-administration-will-not-defend-trumps-public-charge-rule

Police officers who fled to India give first-hand accounts of how military ordered them to shoot peaceful protesters. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/10/shoot-till-they-are-dead-some-myanmar-police-say-fled-to-india

Aleksandar Brezar Measures implemented to protect vulnerable ethnic groups are increasingly abused in Bosnia and Kosovo. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/3/9/political-quotas-and-ethnic-engineering-in-the-western-balkans

Cinnamon Janzer Economists are split on what Americans will do with the next round of coronavirus relief aid, and what impact the $1.9 trillion package...

Alex Gatopoulos In the never-ending quest to find weapons that will give a country the power it needs to knock out its adversaries, a new...

Female refugees and internally displaced women particularly at risk after a new wave of fighting engulfs the Central African Republic. https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2021/3/9/in-pictures-female-refugees-at-risk-in-car