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Huawei announces plans for its own operating system.Taiwan denounces “severe provocation” of Chinese military drill.Harvard research finds 2.7 percent fatality rate in hospitalized younger COVID-19 patients.

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A rundown of important global developments in markets, in business, and region-by-region, as well as statistical risk assessments by country and by US state.

Violent Extremism in Africa amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

Primary terror threats facing Africa - the Islamic State and Al Qaeda affiliates throughout the Sahel - have prospered under the pandemic, taking advantage of diverged government attention and exploiting increasing economic hardship to recruit.At the same time, rising US-China tensions and the US pivot to Asia are increasingly coming to bear on efforts to counter violent extremism on the continent.  

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