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Unprecedented World Health Assembly Convenes Online As Pandemic Rages
Jason Beaubien, NPR The 73rd World Health Assembly took place over teleconference with the main focus being the fight against the...


Turkey's aid diplomacy
Hilal Kaplan, Daily Sabah “On one hand, Turkey is dealing with the coronavirus pandemic on a national scale, it is also consolidating its...


A Post-Pandemic Revival for Regionalism: The Role of the EU
Yaroslav Lissovolik, Valdai Discussion Club The current international economic system is stress-tested by a series of systemic challenges...


China ramps up COVID-19 diplomacy in Mideast
Sabena Siddiqui, Al-Monitor As the Trump administration tries to link the coronavirus to a Chinese laboratory, Beijing is using the...


China continues to cut back Latin America loans
Robert Soutar, Modern Diplomacy For the fourth consecutive year, China’s two main banks tasked with financing overseas development have...


‘Can’t fight COVID-19 alone’: ASEAN leaders call for collaboration in food security and open trade
Pearly Neo, Food Navigator-Asia.com Country leaders of all the member states comprising the Association of Southeast Asian Nations...


WTO and IMF urge nations to lift trade restrictions amid COVID-19 pandemic
Jacob Dougherty, Jurist The heads of the international agencies said that the trade restrictions on supplies used to fight COVID-19 could...


AfDB calls for strong US, Africa partnership beyond COVID-19
Ernest Chanda, The Mast The African Development Bank (AfDB) has called for sustainable partnerships between the US and Africa that should...


Egypt sends military plane filled with medical aid to help U.S. with coronavirus
Michelle Boorstein and Sudarsan Raghavan, The Washington Post Egypt sent medical supplies to the United States as part of efforts to aid...


Aid has failed. COVID-19 both exposes this and offers the chance for a reset.
Bobi Wine & Greg Mills, African Arguments Coronavirus has laid bare the failures of aid. Instead of it being wasted or used to prop up...


Despite New China-Africa Tension, Beijing Has a Pivotal Role to Play in Africa's COVID-19 Recovery
John Campbell, Council on Foreign Relations Videos and images have surfaced showing young African men being dragged in handcuffs by...


EU to give €20 million to aid sanctions-hit Iran in Coronavirus fight
France 24 with Reuters The European Union will send €20 million in humanitarian aid to Iran, which is subject to US sanctions, to help...


Multilateral Response to the Regional Impact of COVID-19 at the Level of the Joint Workers Summit
OAS, ReliefWeb The leaders of the organizations that make up the Joint Summit Working Group agreed on Friday, April 3, on the need to...


MERCOSUR approves emergency fund to face Covid-19
Prensa Latina, Agencia Informativa Latinoamericana The countries of the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) agreed to approve a structural...


Coronavirus: Carmakers answer pleas to make medical supplies
BBC News Car firms are answering calls from governments to help make more ventilators and face masks to help out during the coronavirus...


What the world can learn from regional responses to COVID-19
Anastasia Kalinina, Atlantic Council Regional integration projects around the world could be the first step to help countries jointly...


Coronavirus outbreak eats into EU unity
Katya Adler, BBC Every European government is struggling to protect their populations - their jobs, their health and their economy. But...


China flexes its soft power with ‘Covid Diplomacy’
Will Knight, Wired Much-needed medical supplies from China have been sent to Europe, Africa, and Southeast Asia. China's government was...


Lebanon seeks European assistance to confront COVID-19
Naharnet Newsdesk A Lebanese diplomat who spoke to the daily on condition of anonymity said that France is the only European country that...


IMF extends bilateral borrowing arrangements through 2023
Reuters The International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday its board approved a new three-year framework for bilateral borrowing agreements,...
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