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USA – Fixing financial data to assess systemic risk (Greg Feldberg, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/fixing-financial-data-to-assess-systemic-risk/

USA – The heath care workforce needs higher wages and better opportunities (Jane McDermott and Annelies Goger, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2020/12/02/the-heath-care-workforce-needs-higher-wages-and-better-opportunities/

AUTOMATION – Digital transformation, innovation and growth is accelerated by automation (Vala Afshar, ZD Net)

The company of the future will be a new type of symbiotic organization of autonomous technology and autonomous humans, working effectively together, accelerating the...

MACHINE LEARNING/DATA – Monte Carlo launches Data Observability Platform, aims to solve for bad data (Larry Dignan, ZD Net)

Monte Carlo wants to do for data what application performance management did for enterprise software uptime. The startup launched the Monte Carlo Data Observability Platform,...

AFGHANISTAN – Afghan gov’t, Taliban announce breakthrough deal in peace talks (Al Jazeera)

Afghan government and Taliban representatives said they have reached a preliminary deal to press on with peace talks, their first written agreement in 19...

RUSSIA/ARMENIA/NAGORNO KARABAKH – Putin hails Armenian PM’s ‘courage’ in signing Karabakh deal (Al Jazeera)

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday hailed Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s “courage” in agreeing to a peace deal over Nagorno-Karabakh that triggered a...

PAKISTAN – Pakistan’s new regulations aim to ‘silence the internet’ (Asad Hashim, Al Jazeera)

As journalist Bilal Farooqi was led to a dark cell in a police station in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, a dirty towel...

ETHIOPIA/UN – Ethiopia gives UN ‘unimpeded’ access to Tigray to deliver aid (Al Jazeera)

Ethiopia and the United Nations have reached an agreement to channel desperately needed humanitarian aid to a northern region where a month of war...

NIGERIA – Nigeria police rescue 10 people after ‘baby factory’ raid (Al Jazeera)

Police in Nigeria have rescued 10 people, including four children, four pregnant women and two other women from an illegal maternity home, a spokesman...

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