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Politico: Five Things That Could Stop a Global Tax Deal
June 09, 2021
As July 9th approaches, when Finance ministers from the world’s largest 20 economies will meet to create a plan on how to tax the world’s largest companies, Politico highlights five things that could potentially stop the deal.
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World Bank Opposes Vaccine Intellectual Property Waiver
June 09, 2021
World Bank President David Malpass has stated that the bank does not support waiving intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines at the World Trade Organization highlighting concerns that such a move would limit innovation in the pharmaceuticals sector.
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BBC: Biden Expands on Trump's U.S. Investment Ban on Chinese Firms
June 07, 2021
US President Joe Biden is set to expand an order previously issued from former President Donald Trump, banning Americans from investing in dozens of Chinese tech and defense firms with alleged military ties.
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NYPost: State Department Staffers Were Warned Against Probing COVID Origin
June 04, 2021
Former acting assistant secretary of the State Department’s Bureau of Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance, Thomas DiNanno, revealed that State Department staffers were warned against investigating the origin of COVID-19 because it would cause problems, opening up the possibility of a « cover-up ».
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Protests as Syria given a Seat on Executive Board of the WHO
June 02, 2021
Medical workers in rebel-held northwest Syria are protesting the decision to grant Syria a seat on the executive board of the World Health Organization (WHO), after hundreds of medical facilities have been bombed, often in government airstrikes and with half the hospitals and health centers are functioning only partially or not at all.
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