Global News
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Moderna, racing for profits, keeps Covid-19 vaccine out of reach of poor
After developing a breakthrough vaccine with the financial and scientific support of the US government, Moderna has shipped a greater share of its doses to wealthy countries than any other vaccine manufacturer
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The future farmers of France are tech savvy, and want weekends off
France is the European Union's main breadbasket, accounting for one-fifth of all agricultural output in the 27-country bloc. Yet half of its farmers are over 50 and set to retire in the coming decade, leaving nearly 160,000 farms up for grabs
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Bitcoin preaches financial liberty. A strongman is testing that promise
In June, El Salvador's 40-year-old, populist president, Nayib Bukele, announced that he would make bitcoin the national currency, on a par with the current legal tender, the US dollar
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China's power crunch exposes tensions ahead of UN climate summit
China burns more fossil fuels than any other nation, making it the planet's top source of the greenhouse gases that are warming the earth and its voracious appetite for electricity is only growing
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A global deal aimed at ending tax havens gains momentum
The framework includes a global minimum tax of 15% that each country would adopt, and new rules that would force technology giants like Amazon and Facebook and other big global businesses to pay taxes in countries where their goods or services are sold, even if they have no physical presence there
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Behind the global appeal of 'Squid Game,' a country's economic unease
"Squid Game" is only the latest South Korean cultural export to win a global audience by tapping into the country's deep feelings of inequality and ebbing opportunities
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Why Wall Street cheers China, despite growing business unease
Xi Jinping, China's top leader, is ushering the country into an uncertain era and the party's rule is tighter and more authoritarian than before
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For sale now: US-supplied weapons in Afghan gun shops
Over the years, the United States provided the Afghan military with a huge array of arms and vehicles, including M4 carbines, rockets, A-29 light attack aircraft, Humvees, and copious ammunition for assault rifles and machine guns
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The end of a 'gilded age': China is bringing business to heel
Where once executives had a green light to grow at any cost, officials now want to dictate which industries boom, which ones bust and how it happens
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A 'pacemaker for the brain': No treatment helped her depression—until this
Deep brain stimulation is used to treat Parkinson's disease and several other disorders, but isn't approved by federal regulators for depression because results have been inconsistent
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Facebook is weaker than we knew
This kind of decline is not necessarily visible from the outside, but insiders see a hundred small, disquieting signs of it every day ranging from user-hostile growth hacks, frenetic pivots, executive paranoia and the gradual attrition of talented colleagues