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Covid caused biggest decrease in life expectancy since World War II: Study
The study found that 27 of the 29 countries saw reductions in life expectancy in 2020, and at a scale which wiped out years of progress on mortality.
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The greatest general of the 20th century
His name doesn't crop up in readily available rankings, but his under-resourced and underfed army prevailed over the world's mightiest super power
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The Indian patient
Book review - Raj & Norah: A True Story of Love Lost and Found in World War II
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Recovery underway after worst global recession since World War II: IMF MD
IMF Managing Director Christine Georgieva has said that after the worst global recession since the Second World War, the recovery is underway
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Old words with new meanings
One such is "woke", which Britain's political right denounces as a battering ram that will destroy the ramparts of social orthodoxy
UN at 75 faces worst crisis since WW-II; India reaches out amid pandemic
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said the pandemic was the "fifth horsemen" that added to the fury of the other four horsemen
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China greatest threat to democracy since WW-II: Trump's intelligence chief
China is the "greatest threat" to democracy and freedom since World War II and Beijing was preparing for confrontation with the US, according to America's top intelligence official.
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World War II veteran in US beats Covid-19, marks 104th birthday
The Alabama man spent World War II repairing bomb-damaged trains in France.
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Donald Trump announces Wilmington as first World War II Heritage City
"We will never forget what you did for us," Trump said in prepared remarks at Battleship North Carolina in Wilmington on Wednesday
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Japan economy shrinks 27.8% in April-June as Covid-19 slams consumption
Japanese media reported the latest drop was the worst since World War II
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How women, immigrants, nonwhites helped American economy boom after WW II
The hopeful truth is that when Americans band together to force open the gates of opportunity for women, for Black men, for the groups that have long been oppressed in our economy, everyone gets ahead
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US unemployment rate in May could hit highest level since World War II
Consumer confidence, manufacturing and services industries are also stabilising, though at low levels, hopeful signs that the worst was over
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The inevitability of classical economics
What we came to regard as 'the normal' was anything but normal because the state, like nature, wasn't in the business of compassion and equity
India has to play its cards well in post-coronavirus world
A new war of invisible type is now going on against mankind. Each country will have to select its side. But more importantly, develop its one offense and defensive frameworks
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Covid-19 worst crisis since WWII, no parallels in recent past, says UN head
Guterres called for a much stronger and more effective global response to the coronavirus pandemic and to the social and economic devastation that COVID-19 is causing
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Need for non-economic globalisation: Lessons from the Coronavirus pandemic
While the post World War II global order has successfully promoted trade openness and free markets, it has failed on non-economic metrics such as climate change and health
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The banker who hunted Nazis
The book underlines a reality we are discovering today: that even in advanced democracies fascism retains a perilous allure
Russian women in World War II
Roughly a million Soviet women fought in World War II
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Nurse kissed in iconic World War II photo dies
Black and white photograph of Friedman, dressed in a white uniform, being embraced and kissed by a sailor to celebrate the end of the war became an enduring image
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