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Why New York is suing the NRA: 4 questions answered

Editor’s note: New York state Attorney General Letitia James is suing the National Rifle Association and four of its current and former officials. Brian Mittendorf, an Ohio State University accounting scholar who researches nonprofits, explains…

Lebanon navigates food challenge with no grain silo and few stocks By Reuters

3/3 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: View of the Beirut port with its giant cranes and grain silo.. 2/3 By Maha El Dahan and Ellen Francis DUBAI/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Beirut’s blast destroyed Lebanon’s only large grain…

cash for cyberpolice and training, but the cyberdevil is in the cyberdetail

Australia’s long-awaited cybersecurity strategy, released yesterday, pledges to spend A$1.67 billion over the next ten years to improve online protection for businesses, individuals and the country as a whole. The lion’s share of the cash…

COVID-19 has devastated the popular but flawed volunteer tourism business – here’s what needs to be done

With borders closed and airlines grounded for almost six months, COVID-19 effectively shut down the global tourism industry at a scale never witnessed before. Besides leisure travel, restriction of movement threatened to destroy volunteer tourism…

Saudi Arabia, Iraq stress full commitment to OPEC+ deal By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The logo of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) sits outside its headquarters in Vienna CAIRO (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s energy minister and Iraqi counterpart stressed, in a phone…

In northern China, scientists have found what may be the 2 billion-year-old birthmarks of Earth’s first supercontinent

Far beneath the city of Dongshen in northern China, we have discovered what may be the 2 billion-year-old birthmarks of Earth’s first supercontinent. An ancient dipping structure in the planet’s crust appears to be a…

COVID-19 has hit SMEs in South Africa’s food sector hard. What can be done to help them

COVID-19 has prompted widespread discussion of the resilience of food systems and how efficiency and competitiveness have been previously understood. Recent decades have seen the growth of increasingly complex food value chains. These are underpinned…