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Is monkeypox looking like Covid-sized threat?

  In just the past few weeks, at least 92 confirmed and 28 suspected cases of monkeypox have been reported across Europe, Canada, Israel, the US and Australia. And that number stands to grow as surveillance expands, Maria Van Kerkhove of the World Health Organization (WHO) said. This is concerning, but no reason for anyone to panic. The global response ...

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Lagarde gives US dollar what it needed—a peak

  The US dollar might just have peaked, and if it has then a blog post by Christine Lagarde has a lot to do with it. The president of the European Central Bank chose to post an essay to the ECB website, effectively setting out a new and more hawkish policy. Both the policy itself and the fact that she ...

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Trade chief says US must be ‘strategic’ on China tariffs

Bloomberg The US must be “strategic” when it comes to a decision on whether to remove China tariffs, Trade Representative Katherine Tai said a day after President Joe Biden mentioned he would review Trump-era levies as consumer prices surge. “With respect to the tariffs, our approach as with everything in this relationship, is to be strategic,” Tai said in an ...

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