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The simple lesson of Texas’s power outage

The details of what went wrong in Texas — most likely the biggest forced blackout in US history — will take time to establish. So will exactly what to do about it. But this emergency already underlines something that should’ve been obvious before. As the growing threat of extreme weather puts vital economic systems at risk, climate resilience needs to ...

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After Trump, can the US repair its politics?

One week after Donald Trump’s acquittal in the Senate, and not before time, attention is turning more squarely to President Joe Biden and his agenda. Unfortunately, it’s already clear that moving past the political turmoil that Trump inflicted on the US will be difficult. Biden hopes to unite the country around efforts to support the economic recovery. He restated his ...

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Cathay crew to work 21-day stints to avoid quarantine

Bloomberg Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd is taking extreme measures to cope with new rules that will require flight crew to quarantine in Hong Kong from Saturday, introducing a rotation policy that puts staff out of action for almost one month at a time after they’ve completed 21-day shifts. Crew who volunteer to take part in the airline’s so-called closed loop ...

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