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FUTURE OF WORK – 4 ways to reskill the global workforce – and this is where it’s already happening (Jeff Maggioncalda, Shireen Yacoub,...

The Forum’s Future of Jobs report pointed to the double disruption of automation and pandemic, with 85 million jobs displaced by 2025. But...

BETTER BUSINESS – Take the Meritocracy Stress Test to find out the truth about diversity in your company (Laura Liswood, WEF)

• The Meritocracy Stress Test does for equality what the bank stress test did for liquidity. • Despite claiming to be meritocracies, many workplaces do...

HONDURAS/USA – Honduras asks US to extend TPS for citizens after hurricanes (Al Jazeera)

Honduras asked the United States on Friday to prolong temporary migration protections for thousands of its citizens to mitigate the devastation of two recent...

USA/LATIN AMERICA – Biden Can’t Pick Up in Latin America Where Obama Left Off (Shannon K. O’Neil, Bloomberg, CFR)

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden delivers a pre-Thanksgiving speech at his transition headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., November 25, 2020. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts With president-elect Joseph Biden so...

USA/CHINA – US cancels China-funded exchange programs, saying they are ‘propaganda tools’ (Lauren Holtmeier, Al Arabiya)

The US Department of State on Friday terminated five exchange programs with China that the US says were “propaganda tools” disguised as “cultural exchanges.” https://englishbeta.alarabiya.net/en/News/world/2020/12/05/US-cancels-China-funded-exchange-programs-saying-they-are-propaganda-tools- Read...

INDIA/CANADA – India summons Canada envoy after Trudeau backs protests (Al Arabiya)

India on Friday summoned Canada’s ambassador and warned of serious damage to diplomatic ties after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau commented on growing protests by...

USA/SOMALIA – Trump orders removal of ‘most’ personnel from Somalia: Pentagon (Al Arabiya)

President Donald Trump has ordered the removal of most US military and security personnel from Somalia, where they have been conducting operations against the...

USA/MEXICO – The upcoming friction in US-Mexico relations (Vanda Felbab-Brown, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/12/04/the-upcoming-friction-in-us-mexico-relations/

DEMOCRACIES/DISINFORMATION – Podcast: How democracies can go on offense against disinformation (Quinta Jurecic, Alina Polyakova, and Daniel Fried, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/techstream/podcast-how-democracies-can-go-on-offense-against-disinformation/

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