Things aren’t exactly settling down along the US border with Mexico, with the US Border Patrol reporting 178,416 apprehensions in the Southwest in June, its highest monthly total since early 2000. Emergency rules adopted early in the Covid-19 pandemic that allow for the immediate expulsion of most unauthorised border crossers and people who arrive at the border seeking asylum have ...

Pandemics don’t cause riots. They do, though, create the perfect conditions for turmoil in fragile societies that are already powder kegs of inequality and sky-high unemployment, and where coronavirus has inevitably hit the poor hardest. South Africa’s days of unrest this month, the worst violence since apartheid, were triggered by the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma on contempt-of-court charges. ...

Salesforce.com Inc helped Zoom Video Communications Inc get off to a good start when it invested in the startup’s IPO roughly two years ago. But with the videoconferencing company now looming as a serious threat in cloud software, Salesforce may regret its initial support. Zoom announced an agreement to acquire cloud call-center software maker Five9 Inc for $14.7 billion in ...