Thousands of undocumented migrants to get Italian work permits

Threatened by food shortages and health risks, Rome gives a six-month amnesty for thousands of undocumented migrants. Thousands of undocumented migrants will now be allowed to apply to temporarily stay and work in Italy under an amnesty announced as the country unveiled a $59.6bn stimulus package to cushion the economic impact of the coronavirus. After …

Donald Trump: Africa is not the Owner of this Corpse By Pius Adesanmi

Africa and similes are now back in big business. Our friends in America’s punditry are all rushing to Africa for explanations of their current predicament. It does not happen here. It happens only in Africa. It happens only in the banana Republics of the Third World. He is like an African dictator. He is like …

Clear British government COVID19 policies

* 4 year olds can go to school but university students who have paid for the tuition they haven’t had and the accommodation they aren’t living in, can’t go to university. * A teacher can go to school with many 4 year olds that they are not related to but can’t see one 4 year …

Republican leaders have long tried to kill the U.S.P.S. Now the coronavirus is helping. By Casey Cep

For the past forty years, Republicans have been seeking to starve, strangle, and sabotage the U.S. Postal Service, hoping to privatize one of the oldest and most important public goods in American history.Photograph by Dan Brouillette / Bloomberg / Getty I am probably one of the least consequential things my mother has ever delivered. She …

Nigerian doctor in U.S. Babafemi Taiwo is leading major study on antiviral drug Remdesivir appearing to treat COVID-19

Dr. Babafemi Taiwo is Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago. He is also Director, Clinical Core of the Third Coast Center for AIDS Research, and Leader of the Northwestern University Site of the NIAID-funded AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG). At Northwestern University, he leads clinical and translational HIV researchers from infectious …