Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer won the Nobel Prize 2019 in Economics “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced. Banerjee and Duflo are professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), while Kremer is a professor at Harvard University, all based in Boston. Esther Duflo […]
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday urged United Nations Security Council members to address shared security threats and promote religious liberty across the globe. “Our nations face a range of shared security threats, including terrorism, drug trafficking, illegal migration, cyberattack, and the spread of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons,” Trump said in his luncheon meeting […]
Telegram, a popular encrypted messaging app, will allow users to cloak their telephone numbers to safeguard Hong Kong protesters against monitoring by authorities, according to a person with direct knowledge of the effort. The update to Telegram, planned for release over the next few days, will allow protesters to prevent mainland Chinese and Hong Kong […]
