SECURITY CHALLENGES FACING HUMANITY IN A POST-PANDEMIC MULTI-POLAR WORLD
(A paper by Manish Sahdev[1]) Introduction The Spanish-flu pandemic of 1918-20 had literally brought the world to its knees. It caused over 50 million deaths...
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AI brings back 263 Indians from Rome
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