By pressuring Mexico to halt oil shipments, Washington is escalating its blockade of Cuba into a direct bid for economic collapse and regime change, argues SEVIM DAGDELEN
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Zero Covid: China silences the critics
Despite the effectiveness of China’s tactics in fighting Covid-19, Western outlets still find ways to decry it as ‘authoritarian’ and ‘unsustainable’ — instead they should be saluting its remarkable success, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
Medical workers scan codes on people's smartphones at a mass coronavirus testing site in Beijing
As the government quietly upgrades the role of Britain’s special forces, their growing global footprint and near-total exemption from democratic oversight should alarm us all, says ROGER McKENZIE
A society that grows accustomed to ‘undesirable’ people also grows accustomed to undesirable deaths. Minneapolis serves as a wake-up call, including for our own refugee policies, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
Recent research pushes back the date of the earliest cave art by several thousand years. ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT look into the science applied
As Labour plans a centralised National Police Service, the resignation of a chief constable over the Maccabi football ban reveals how policing, technology and narrative management converge when public order and class power are at stake, says NICK WRIGHT
Sudan’s paramilitary attacked a Chadian military garrison, killing seven soldiers and prompting the government to issue a “final warning. PAVAN KULKARNI reports
IT’S coming up to a year since the last death from Covid in China. Since January 26 2021, China’s Covid death count has been stuck on 4,636.
The vast majority — 99.9 per cent — of these deaths took place during the first three months of the pandemic and the most were in Hubei, the province in which the outbreak was first detected.
In the southern province of Guangdong, population 125 million, there have been just eight deaths from Covid.
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