As the world grapples with the ongoing pandemic of COVID-19, it is important to remember that this is not the first but rather the seventh human coronavirus that scientists have discovered since the mid-1960s.
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Videos
FO Talks: Why Killing Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei Did Not Collapse the Regime
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FO Talks: India–US Trade Deal Agreement and the Real Beginning of Liberalization 2.0
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FO Exclusive: Global Lightning Roundup of February 2026
FO Talks: India and China Can No Longer Avoid Each Other, Militarily and Economically
FO Talks: Can Spirituality Transform Capitalism?
FO Talks: Esther Wojcicki on Raising Resilient Children in an Age of Fear and Authoritarianism
FO Talks: Are Companies Using Software to Quietly Eliminate Your Legal Rights?
FO Talks: Josef Olmert on Why a US Strike on Iran Now Seems Inevitable
FO° Talks: Great Power Competition Is Back: How the US Plans to Deter China and Russia
FO° Talks: End of American Global Leadership? Trump, Tariffs and the Rise of a Multipolar World
FO Talks: Decoding Mark Carney’s Davos Speech Amid Rising Global Strategic Competition
FO Talks: Iran Is Breaking From Within, But Regime Collapse Won’t Look Like 1979
FO Talks: Is Sovereignty Dead? Trump’s Maduro Arrest and the End of Global Norms
FO Exclusive: Xi Jinping’s Military Purge Signals Rising Paranoia in China
FO Exclusive: Mark Carney Challenges American Hegemony at Davos
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