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World
Vaccine Diplomacy
As COVID-19 vaccines become an increasingly valuable commodity on the global market, countries producing the vaccine have the opportunity to gain political influence via distribution. In what some reporters calling the “era of vaccine diplomacy,” a few wealthy countries developing vaccines are distributing doses along existing diplomatic lines. According to VoteWatchEurope, the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine developed in Germany and manufactured in the U.S., has the widest global reach. Pfizer/BioNTech is currently used by over 60 countries, and is the leading vaccine in North America, the European Union, and some Central and South American countries. Vaccines from China, India, and Russia are being distributed to more than 40 countries, including many developing countries, in what is described by some scholars as a foreign policy strategy to win global influence.
The map depicts the origin of the most used vaccine by country. Click on the map to learn more.
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Bangladesh
Refugee Camp Fire
At least 15 people have been killed and 400 remain missing after a large fire destroyed a Rohingya refugee camp in the Cox’s Bazaar district of Bangladesh, near the border with Myanmar early this week. The fire, which began on Monday morning, destroyed at least 10,000 shelters made of bamboo and tarpaulin before being brought under control around midnight after a ten-hour struggle by firefighters. An estimated 50,000 refugees fled the area and are now homeless after the incident. Cox’s Bazaar is home to 34 refugee camps spanning 8,000 acres (3,200 hectares), which house nearly one million Rohingya refugees who fled from Myanmar since violent military crackdowns began in 2017.
This map depicts the location of the fire in Cox’s Bazar. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: AFP
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Egypt
Container Ship Blocks Suez Canal
The MV Ever Given, a 200,000-tonne, 1,314 foot (400 m) container ship sailing under the Panamanian flag, has run aground in the Suez Canal, becoming wedged length-wise across the channel. The grounding has caused a gridlock in both directions of at least 100 vessels. While the cause of the incident remains under investigation, it appears that the massive ship was pushed by excessive winds. No injuries to the crew were reported. The Suez Canal sees roughly 10 percent of international maritime shipping traffic and is a vital route to move petroleum and natural gas from the Middle East to Europe. Oil prices, which had been dropping for the past few weeks, saw a small rise after the accident.
This map depicts the location of the MV Ever Given’s grounding in the Suez Canal. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: Which is the closest U.S. state to Africa?
A: Maine
Quoddy Head Light, a lighthouse sitting on the easternmost end of the Quoddy Head peninsula, is the easternmost point in the United States and 3,154 miles (5076 km) from El Beddouza, Morocco. Flat representations of the earth can condition our thinking that we must look to the most southeast corner of the United States, Singer Island, off West Palm Beach, to find the nearest point to Africa, but when factoring in Quoddy Head’s more eastern location by longitude along with the curvature of the earth one finds that Quoddy Head is 931 miles (1,498 km) closer to the African continent.
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Q: Which national and state protected forest, spanning over 131,980 acres (53,410 hectares), is home to the tallest tree in the world?
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