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FILE â€” Homes on Ejit, an islet in the Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands, pictured on Oct. 29, 2015, are under threat from rising seas. The tiny Pacific island nation faces an uncertain future. (Josh Haner/The New York Times) XNYT23

June 3, 2021 at 12:40 pm

Tasked to fight climate change, a secretive U.N. agency does the opposite

LONDON — During a contentious meeting over proposed climate regulations last fall, a Saudi diplomat to the obscure but powerful International Maritime Organization switched on...

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March 21, 2021 at 12:22 pm

Rich Countries Signed Away a Chance to Vaccinate the World

In the coming days, a patent will finally be issued on a five-year-old invention, a feat of molecular engineering that is at the heart of...

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March 19, 2021 at 5:28 pm

Where the EU went wrong in its vaccine rollout, and why

BRUSSELS — The calls began in December, as the United States prepared to administer its first batches of COVID-19 vaccine. Even then, it was clear...

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January 28, 2021 at 1:59 pm

Governments Sign Secret Vaccine Deals: Here’s What They Hide

BRUSSELS — When members of the European Parliament sat down this month to read the first publicly available contract for purchasing coronavirus vaccines, they noticed...

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January 8, 2021 at 5:34 pm

As Coronavirus Mutates, the World Stumbles Again to Respond

Experts have been startled by the pace at which significant new variants have emerged, adding new urgency to the race between the world’s best defenses...

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September 30, 2020 at 11:08 am

Ski, party, seed a pandemic: The travel rules that let COVID-19 take flight

Ischgl, Austria, is where the era of global tourism, made possible by cheap airfares and open borders, collided with a pandemic. For decades, as trade...

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August 8, 2020 at 9:07 am

As COVID-19 hit Belgium, many in nursing homes were left to die

BRUSSELS — Shirley Doyen was exhausted. The Christalain nursing home, which she ran with her brother in an affluent neighborhood in Brussels, was buckling from...

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June 27, 2020 at 11:46 am

How the world missed COVID-19’s silent spread

MUNICH — Dr. Camilla Rothe was about to leave for dinner when the government laboratory called with the surprising test result. Positive. It was Jan....

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April 1, 2020 at 12:47 pm

COVID-19 changed how world does science, together

Using flag-draped memes and military terminology, the Trump administration and its Chinese counterparts have cast coronavirus research as national imperatives, sparking talk of a biotech...

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Shipping containers are offloaded from a vessel in the Port of Antwerp, Belgium, Monday, March 23, 2020. While Belgium’s stores, schools, restaurants and bars have closed and people asked to stay home, the Port of Antwerp remains operational to maintain crucial supply chains to grocery stores and pharmacies. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo) VLM103 VLM103

March 25, 2020 at 3:40 pm

Trapped at sea by coronavirus lockdowns, commercial-shipping crew members plead for help

An estimated 150,000 crew members with expired work contracts have been forced into continued labor aboard commercial ships worldwide to meet the demands of governments...

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