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Global cases surpassed 15 million, driven by surges in the US, Brazil and India. The UNDP called for temporary basic income to 2.7 million people who live at or below the poverty line to stop surge of virus cases in developing world. China launched its first mission to Mars, one week ahead of the US mission, as space exploration becomes a growing battleground in the U.S.-China rivalry.

Conditions Updates

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.

The Hong Kong National Security Law

Characterized by ambiguity, the new national security law provides both Hong Kong authorities and new central government-controlled bodies sweeping powers to investigate and punish broadly defined national security offenses.

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