Global trade will grow less quickly this year than in 2022, the World Trade Organization (WTO) expects. The slowdown is related to inhibiting factors such as the war in Ukraine, inflation, tighter monetary policy from central banks and financial uncertainty. The WTO is slightly more optimistic than in its previous […]
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An Israeli firm manipulated elections worldwide for a fee. A team of investigative journalists has discovered this. The so-called Team Jorge served clients from both business and politics. International research involving journalists from the German magazine Der Spiegel, Knack and Le Soir shows that the company employs ex-soldiers and ex-agents, […]
Global food prices fell for a ninth consecutive month in December, the United Nations Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported. The FAO’s food price index, which tracks five major commodities, fell 1.9 percent in December from a month earlier. Due to the decline, global food prices are 1 percent below the level […]
The drones hovering over the Russian fleet near Sevastopol in the early hours of Saturday had far more impact than the destruction they inflicted on the ships. “Russia is blackmailing with global famine” as Moscow torpedoing grain deal. “It’s just outrageous. There was no reason to do that,” US President […]
The outlook for the global economy is becoming increasingly bleak this year. That is why the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will have to lower its growth expectations again next week, top woman Kristalina Georgieva said in a speech at Georgetown University. It is not the first time this year that […]
Global economic growth, and certainly in Europe, will be considerably lower in the coming period than previously thought. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) forecasts a growth of 2.2 percent for next year instead of the 2.8 percent forecast in June. The outlook for Germany is entirely bleak. […]
About 8 million children under the age of 5 are at risk of death from severe acute malnutrition. Unicef, the United Nations children’s rights organization, warns about this on the eve of the G7 summit. Since the beginning of this year, more than a quarter of a million (260,000) […]
The amount of greenhouse gases in the air, sea-level rise and the heat and acidification of the oceans all set new records in 2021, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reports in a new report. The United Nations agency sees clear signs of climate change, with harmful and long-lasting effects. […]
Major world powers show a “criminal” lack of leadership regarding climate. UN chief Antonio Guterres said that after the appearance of another alarming report from the IPCC climate panel on global warming. The risks of flooding and wildfires are increasing, the panel concludes. The most vulnerable people and ecosystems […]
To get the corona pandemic under control, rich countries should provide poorer countries with vaccines before vaccinating children. World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said so. Tedros wants countries that are already advanced in vaccinating their populations to give vaccines to Covax, an international program that […]
