Helier Cheung, BBC News: Seismic change: How Covid-19 altered world events in 2020
The year 2020 has been like no other.
The coronavirus infected more than 67 million people, impacted 80% of jobs, and placed billions in lockdown.
It's tempting to imagine how 2020 would have turned out differently without a pandemic.
What extra time would we have had with loved ones?
What birthdays, weddings and milestones did we miss?
And while the crisis affected all of us personally, it also shaped news events around the world, with knock-on effects for millions.
Here are just four political issues, from four continents, which were altered by the pandemic.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- December 27, 2020
Wars, instability pose vaccine challenges in poor nations -- Kathy Gannon, Andrew Meldrum, and Lee Keath, AP
Explainer: How the new Covid-19 vaccines work -- France 24
Europe After the Panemic -- Antonia Colibasanu, Geopolitical Futures
The great opportunity: how Covid transformed global crime -- Laura Spinney, The Guardian
Would a Nuclear-Armed Taiwan Deter China? -- Alex Littlefield, Adam Lowther, The Strategist
Russia treads lightly in Syrian deadlock -- Kirill Semenov, Al-Monitor
Why oil makes Gulf countries vulnerable to Iran -- Nikolay Kozhanov, Al Jazeera
Firearms, barbed wire, strong rooms: how sailors protect themselves from pirates in the Gulf of Guinea -- France 24
'Clock still ticking' for settlement over Gibraltar despite Brexit deal -- Ashifa Kassam, The Guardian
A Tough Year Looms for the EU -- Duncan Robinson, Economist
Has Navalny’s Prank Shattered the FSB Myth Once and For All? -- Sergey Radchenko, Moscow Times
How tough will Joe Biden be on the US shale industry? -- Jillian Ambrose, The Guardian
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