COVID-19

Western Europe & Canada

Belgium Allows Workers to Request Four-Day Work Week

By Noah Van Horne February 24, 2022

Coin

Compass Money: Sri Lanka’s Government Deregulates Prices to Tackle Shortages

By Mina Derebail October 20, 2021

Indo-Asia-Pacific

Australia to Reopen Borders

By Cassie Clark October 7, 2021

Latin America & The Caribbean

Cuba Begins Exporting Vaccines to Venezuela and Vietnam

By Isabella Falero October 7, 2021

Eastern Europe & Central Asia

Turkey Bans Alcohol Sales as Part of COVID-19 Lockdown

By Jialan Deal September 27, 2021

Indo-Asia-Pacific

India’s G-7 Delegation Self-Isolates After Positive COVID-19 Tests

By Ayushman Ghosh May 9, 2021

Southwest Asia & North Africa

Fire in Baghdad Hospital Turns Deadly

By Nathan Kim May 5, 2021

Indo-Asia-Pacific

Thai Prime Minister Fined for Not Wearing Mask

By Graham Kanwit May 4, 2021

Coin

Compass Money: Can’t Afford to Fight It, Can’t Afford Not To – The Climate Debt Dilemma

By Renée Clark April 30, 2021

Western Europe & Canada

Greece Prepares for Full Opening to Tourists Mid-Pandemic

By Thomas Lohman April 28, 2021

Southwest Asia & North Africa

Saudi Arabian Oil Giant Announces Decline in Profits

By Nathan Kim April 14, 2021

Latin America & The Caribbean

Colombia Extends COVID-19 Restrictions

By Sunaina Sunda April 11, 2021

Western Europe & Canada

Riot Police Deployed to Fake Festival in Brussels

By Jonah Miller April 11, 2021

Western Europe & Canada

Sectarian Violence Erupts in Northern Irish Cities

By William Schwartz April 10, 2021

Indo-Asia-Pacific

Tokyo Organizing Committee Bans Overseas Spectators

By Vincent Zhang March 29, 2021

Africa

Tanzanian President John Magufuli Dies

By Keith Richards March 26, 2021

Coin

Compass Money: Women Around the World Set Back by COVID-19’s Impact on Labor Participation

By Renée Clark March 24, 2021

Western Europe & Canada

France Enters Partial Lockdown

By Gabriella Turrinelli March 24, 2021

Southwest Asia & North Africa

Iran Starts Human Trials for Third COVID-19 Vaccine

By Gordon McNeill March 18, 2021

Western Europe & Canada

Italy to Begin Producing Russian Covid-19 Vaccine

By Thomas Lohman March 17, 2021

Western Europe & Canada

Profiteering Scandal Erupts in the German Bundestag

By William Schwartz March 15, 2021

Western Europe & Canada

Catalan Separatist Leaders Stripped of Parliamentary Immunity

By Olivia Case March 15, 2021

Africa

Taiwan Provides COVID-19 Treatment to Eswatini King

By John Fallows March 11, 2021

Indo-Asia-Pacific

India’s Homegrown Vaccine Proves Effective in Trials

By Ishaan Rai March 10, 2021

Southwest Asia & North Africa

Saudi Arabia Mandates Vaccination Requirement For All Pilgrims On the Hajj

By Nathan Kim March 10, 2021

USA

House Passes the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act

By Maggie McHale March 9, 2021

Southwest Asia & North Africa

Israel Swaps COVID-19 Vaccines for Captive Held in Syria

By Alex Missen March 4, 2021

World

Yazidis after ISIS: Repair and Recovery from Genocide

By Michael Skora March 2, 2021

Western Europe & Canada

Anti-Lockdown Protest Turns Violent in Dublin, Ireland

By Sophia George March 2, 2021

Latin America & The Caribbean

Peru’s COVID-19 Corruption

By Georgie Wilson February 27, 2021

Latin America & The Caribbean

Ecuador's Election Commission Halts Vote Recount

By Sunaina Sunda February 23, 2021

Eastern Europe & Central Asia

Russia Claims COVID-19 Vaccine is 92 Percent Effective

By Josephine Wu November 20, 2020

Indo-Asia-Pacific

Super Typhoon Goni Tears through the Philippines

By Rosemary Williams November 9, 2020

Coin

Compass Money: As Cases Rise Across Europe, UK Struggles to Mount Response

By Gordon McNeill November 2, 2020

Eastern Europe & Central Asia

Putin Approves Second COVID-19 Vaccine

By Josephine Wu October 27, 2020

Coin

Compass Money: Is Austerity Dead? The Financial Response to the Pandemic

By Claire Wang October 26, 2020

Coin

Compass Money: World Bank Poverty Report – Progress at a Regress

By Emily Wang October 19, 2020

Southwest Asia & North Africa

Israel Enters its Second COVID-19 Lockdown

By Claire Wang October 2, 2020

Southwest Asia & North Africa

Third Wave of COVID Grips Iran

By Gordon McNeill October 2, 2020

Gender

Compass Gender Spotlight: Sex Work and the Pandemic

By Alec Weiker, Macy Uustal and Claire Beezley October 1, 2020

Coin

Compass Money: Work from Home Forever? The Future of Office Spaces After COVID-19

By Yeiji Seo September 28, 2020

Coin

Compass Money: Inequality in the Time of COVID-19

By Gordon McNeill September 21, 2020

Gender

Compass Gender: Indian Actors Stand with Domestic Abuse Victims

By Cleary Waldo September 17, 2020

Latin America & The Caribbean

COVID-19 Threatens Eradication of Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples

By Channing Lee May 15, 2020

Gender

Compass Gender: Transgender People Face Losing Legal Recognition in Hungary

By Max Zhang April 29, 2020

Gender

Compass Gender: Trans Woman Arrested For Violating Panama’s Gender-Based Quarantine

By Maylene Yeh April 15, 2020

Eastern Europe & Central Asia

Russia Reacts to COVID-19 Outbreak by Confining and Deporting Travelers

By Dennis Azvolinsky March 4, 2020