Tag: Countries
Here’s How to Change Your HBO Max Region to See the Hidden Content You’re Missing in Other Countries
If you love TV and movies, but only want to subscribe to one streaming service, you may want to know how to change your HBO Max region to make the most of of your one account.
HBO Max launched in May 2020 as a streaming service for HBO and other Warner Brothers properties, such as Friends, Sex and the City and Game of Thrones. Since its launch, HBO Max—which kicked off its service with its first original show, … Read more
Which Countries Have the Most Anti-Vaxxers?
In the public-health world, the rise of Omicron prompted a great, big “I told you so.” Since the new variant was detected in South Africa, advocacy groups, the WHO, and global-health experts have said the new variant was a predictable consequence of vaccine inequity. Rich countries are hoarding vaccine doses, they said, leaving much of the developing world under-vaccinated. But in reality, countries with low vaccination rates are suffering from more than just inequity.
South Africa, the country where
Iran Feels Cornered by the Biden Administration
Few Saudi officials are more candid or colorful these days than Prince Turki al-Faisal, a son of the late King Faisal and former ambassador to Washington. Although he no longer holds a government position, the prince retains influence and insight into the kingdom and, thanks to a two-decade-long career as Riyadh’s intelligence chief, understands better than anyone its rivalry with Iran. So I was mildly surprised by his frank assessment of the current state of affairs. “The Iranians,” he
Facebook did little to moderate posts in the world’s most violent countries – POLITICO
In late 2020, Facebook researchers came to a sobering conclusion. The company’s efforts to curb hate speech in the Arabic world were not working.
In a 59-page memo circulated internally just before New Year’s Eve, engineers detailed the grim numbers.
Only 6 percent of Arabic-language hate content was detected on Instagram before it made its way onto the photo-sharing platform owned by Facebook. That compared with a 40 percent takedown rate on Facebook.
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Here’s Why Developing Countries Can Make the Top Covid Vaccines
Across the developing world, hundreds of millions of people are unable to get a vaccine to protect themselves from the ravages of Covid-19, and millions of them have already become infected and died.
Depending on wealthy nations to donate billions of doses is not working, public health experts say. The solution, many now believe, is for the countries to do something that the big American mRNA vaccine makers say is not feasible: Manufacture the gold-standard mRNA shots themselves.
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Foodmakers of all (EU) countries, behave! – EURACTIV.com
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39 – Bubble battles, Mark Ruffalo & code of conduct
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Wealthy Countries Have Left the Rest of the World Behind
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