Morocco elected as 2024 Human Rights Council president
Morocco's ambassador in Geneva was elected Wednesday to become the president of the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2024 in a rare secret...
Disinformation Tops Global Risks 2024 as Environmental Threats Intensify
Drawing on nearly two decades of original risks perception data, the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2024warns of a global risks landscape in...
General Assembly meets over Gaza veto by US in Security Council
The immediate priority in Gaza must be saving civilian lives said the President of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, as Member States gathered...
Cash now extinct as citizens use implanted microchips instead
The financial authorities, who once embraced the trend, are asking banks to keep peddling notes and coins until the government can figure out what...
Rebuilding Trust: World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2024
Amid increasing division and uncertainty that continue to destabilize the world, the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2024 will bring together more than 2,800...
Somalia’s President Signs Law Canceling Ethiopia Red Sea Access Deal
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud officially invalidated breakaway region Somaliland’s agreement to grant landlocked Ethiopia access to the Red Sea in exchange for a...
Action on Energy Demand Could Boost Growth, Save Economies $2 Trillion a Year
A set of business actions aimed at reducing the intensity of energy demand could unlock annual savings of at least $2 trillion for the...
Cooperation Possible Is Even in Midst of Competition
The World Economic Forum today launched the Global Cooperation Barometer to measure the state of global cooperation. The barometer indicates that global cooperation was...
NYT: The U.S. is now isolated over Gaza
Days of intense negotiations enabled the Biden administration to avoid casting a veto at the United Nations Security Council in defense of Israel’s military...
World Economic Forum Announces 2024 Crystal Award Winners
Architect and educator Diébédo Francis Kéré, Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Programme and Oscar-winning actor Michelle Yeoh, and producer, guitarist, composer and...