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Pandemic retools diplomacy as world leaders gather virtually

by Associated Press
| September 19, 2020 1:03 PM

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — With COVID-19 still careening across the planet, the annual gathering of its leaders in New York will be replaced this year by a global patchwork of prerecorded speeches, another piece of upheaval in a deeply divided world turned topsy-turvy by a pandemic with no endpoint in sight.

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