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Residents in a sealed-off Shanghai neighborhood receive bulk-ordered food supplies under the monitoring of health workers in hazmat suits

This Shanghai writer and translator shares his experience of the city’s 2-month lockdown

COVID-19

As Shanghai begins to ease its two-month COVID-19 lockdown, writer and translator Xing Zhao says that the psychological impacts on residents are likely to linger for much longer.

People walk down a normally bustling shopping street in the center of Amsterdam

With Christmas in the balance, nations eye UK omicron surge

COVID-19
Hungarian police guard refugees at a makeshift camp in an underground station near the Keleti train station in Budapest, Hungary September 2, 2015.

Refugees plead for help at a Budapest train station, while others question the wisdom of opening borders

Conflict
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