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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...

White House, Pentagon officials unaware for days defense secretary was hospitalized

Senior Biden administration leaders, top Pentagon officials and members of the U.S. Congress were unaware for days that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had been...

India-Russia ties get a makeover

The visit by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar to Russia on December 24-29 presented an extraordinary spectacle reminiscent of the halcyon days of Indo-Soviet...

Why global cooperation is key -Report

The UN’s World Economic Situation and Prospects report for 2024 projects a slowdown in global growth from an estimated 2.7 per cent in 2023...

The World in 2024

Experts look ahead to 2024 and outline what they believe will be the most important geopolitical developments of the new year at ‘Engelsberg Ideas’...

Nearly 600 attacks on healthcare in Gaza and West Bank since war began: WHO

Hospitals and other vital medical infrastructure in Gaza and the West Bank have been attacked nearly 600 times since war erupted in the enclave...

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