Our Scans · (ZY.4.11) History · Weekly Summary

• [New] The proposed bill, now in the House of Representatives, makes the claim that the South African government has a history of siding with malign actors and will consider whether South Africa has engaged in activities that undermine US national security or foreign policy interests. BizNews.com
• [New] North Korea has a history of playing a balancing act between China and Russia during the Cold War, and if Kim Jong-un is inclined to play by the old playbook, then Pyongyang's China calculus will affect its already controversial ties with Moscow. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• [New] The conflict in Sudan has triggered mass displacement and one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent history, risking the destabilization of the wider region. The Soufan Center
• [New] The bridge collapse could become the most expensive marine insured loss in history, surpassing the record of $1.5 billion held by the 2012 shipwreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship off Italy. Fortune
• [New] Sudan is suffering one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent history after nearly a year of war, the United Nations has warned. Al Jazeera
• [New] Even discussing the Palestinian history of displacement and dispossession in public entities, including schools, risks the loss of state funding under legislation popularly known as the Nakba law. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Virus family history could help scientists identify which strains have potential to become the so-called Disease X that causes the next global pandemic. ScienceDaily
• Scholars conducting research on one side of a hot button topic like the history of Russia and Ukraine might find it more difficult, for example, to cast Russia as anything other than a villain, particularly when University statements have favored Ukraine in the current conflict. Harvard Gazette
• The United States and the Soviet Union, and later, Russia, have a long history of managing and controlling the risks of nuclear escalation. South Front
• Medicare will cover the costs of Novo Nordisk's obesity drug Wegovy for some patients with a history of heart disease, a policy shift that could significantly open up access to the in-demand weight loss medicine. Healthcare Dive
• The transition to Search Generative Experiences marks the most substantial transformation in the history of search engines - and a seismic shift that will impact all industries, affecting every company and marketer globally. Search Engine Journal
• In an unprecedented financial shift, millennials are on the cusp of becoming the richest generation in history, with $90 trillion expected to be passed down to them over the next two decades. View From The Top
• As Mexico approaches its largest and most significant elections in its recent history, it faces a concerning and often overlooked phenomenon that could influence the outcome of elections: political violence. Wilson Center
• This year, for the first time in American history, we expect energy from wind and solar in the U.S. to outpace coal generation. Energy.gov
• Tuesday could see Japan end the longest run of negative interest rates in history, after its companies decided on the biggest pay hikes in 33 years. The Telegraph
• One of the UK's most successful tech entrepreneurs will go on trial in San Francisco later today, over what US prosecutors have called the largest fraud in the history of Silicon Valley. The Guardian
• Experts warn that vaccination efforts - and funding - must not falter if the world is to rid itself of a human infectious disease for the second time in history, after smallpox. The Guardian
• More than half of all CRCs are linked to risk factors that can be changed including being overweight or obese, certain types of diets, smoking, alcohol use, being older, and having a personal history of inflammatory bowel disease or a family history of CRC. Cancer Health
• Corporate history in India has been dominant over the last decade and has opened up opportunities for women to meet people from varied domains and countries across the globe to experience how companies work and what can be adopted in the Indian real estate sector. FinancialExpress
• WHILE more than nine million people of Pakistan's commercial hub are poised to exercise their right to vote in the general elections being held today, Karachi is set observe the most unpredictable polls of its history. Dawn Epaper
• The next two years, 2024 and 2025, will have more commercial real estate debt due to be refinanced in the history of CRE, that will cause some assets to be lost as values have decreased as interest rates have gone up. InvestmentNews

Last updated: 19 April 2024