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Grand angle - Corona car

1. 67-year-old inventor Sudhakar Yadav has created a small single-seater car in the shape of the virus that is sweeping ...

On parle d'eux

1.~ Jack Dorsey Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey is dedicating more than a quarter of his wealth to a new ...

The Politics of a Pandemic

1. The coronavirus pandemic is first and foremost a global public health crisis. But here in the United States — ...

Can the US presidential election survive?

1. The coronavirus pandemic has taken a wrecking ball to the Olympics, Edinburgh Festival and UN’s Cop26 climate conference. In ...

Focus 1 - Trump

1.   Name   Donald John Trump   Date and place of birth   June 14, 1946 in Queens, New York ...

5G and Coronavirus conspiracy theory

1. An unfounded conspiracy theory that radiation from 5G towers causes coronavirus and cancer is spreading across social media and messaging apps, resulting in widespread ...

Entertaining lonely zoo inhabitants amid lockdown

1. While humans have been using Netflix and Zoom to quell the coronavirus lockdown ennui, New Zealand’s zoo animals have ...

Sur le vif

1.~Le Chiffre : 500 000 000The nonprofit group Oxfam has warned that more than half a billion more people could be pushed ...

À 360°

1.~ “Drive-thru” faith  (POLOGNE) A priest in Poland has started taking confession from the faithful in the parking lot of ...

We Live in Zoom Now

1. Teenagers have jokingly referred to themselves as “Zoomers” online for years; now the name is literal. Overnight, Zoom has ...

Zoom sur Eric Yuan

1.~ Origins Yuan was reportedly born into a family of mining engineers in China's Shandong province. He has an undergraduate ...

How ‘Unorthodox’ Captured One Woman’s Flight From Hasidic Brooklyn

1. Writer Deborah Feldman’s pantry was already stocked for the apocalypse. That’s how her Hasidic Holocaust survivor grandparents raised her. ...

Les échos

1.~Thinking outside the box Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, a band based in California, filmed the video for ...

The power of newspaper cartoons during a public health crisis

1. On January 27th Jyllands-Posten, a Danish newspaper, printed a cartoon of the Chinese flag, with yellow SARS-COV-2 virus particles instead ...

Antarctica was warm enough for rainforest 90m years ago

1. Think of Antarctica and it is probably sweeping expanses of ice, and the odd penguin, that come to mind. But at ...

Le dessin

1.~ Trigger warning   The FBI has indicated that 3.7 million gun purchase background checks were conducted in the month ...