People don't seem afraid to catch COVID right now at all. Most people that I know has already had it. It's very hard to tell how many people are actually dying. There will be a scarring effect, which basically means they lost some income or their net assets declined during this period of time.
Israel’s right-wing coalition government has the country’s supreme court in its sights. Their proposal to effectively subjugate its independence to the legislature has sparked protests and stirred concern for the country’s democracy. Our correspondent reports from a newly reopened Shanghai. And how gas stoves became the latest battleground in America’s endless culture wars.
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