Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala welcomed recent calls of support for the WTO and the multilateral trading system from world leaders and urged members to show the political will and flexibility to achieve meaningful outcomes at the WTO’s 14th Ministerial Conference (MC14) in March 2026. The Director-General delivered her remarks at a 30 September meeting of the […]
Scientist and global activist Jane Goodall, who turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment, died on Wednesday at the age of 91, the institute she founded said. Goodall died of natural causes, the Jane Goodall Institute said in a social media post. “Dr Goodall’s discoveries as an ethologist […]
Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR’s international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. The Maidan, Kyiv’s Independence Square, has been the heart of political change in Ukraine for more than two decades. While visiting NPR’s team covering Ukraine — correspondent Joanna Kakissis and producers Hanna Palamarenko and […]
Banking services have stopped, planes are grounded and aid distribution has been halted. The scope of the blackout is rare, even for a government that has increasingly rolled back freedoms. #Internet #Blackout #Afghanistan #Enters #3rd #Day
The signing marked Bahrain’s commitment to advancing women’s economic empowerment through digital trade and to creating new opportunities for inclusive growth by supporting women-led micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). Launched in February 2024 at the WTO’s 13th Ministerial Conference in Abu Dhabi, the USD 50 million WEIDE Fund is jointly funded and managed by […]
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the United States government would probably see its first shutdown in more than six years, with funding expiring at midnight and no breakthrough in sight on deadlocked negotiations between Democrats and Republicans. “We’ll probably have a shutdown,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office just hours before […]
FILE – In this Feb. 10, 2016 photo, Afghanis access social media websites at a private internet cafe in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, file) Rahmat Gul/AP/AP hide caption toggle caption Rahmat Gul/AP/AP ISLAMABAD — The United Nations mission in Afghanistan urged the Taliban on Tuesday to restore internet and telecommunications access across the country, […]
The deportation flight to Iran is the most stark push yet by the Trump administration to deport migrants even to places with harsh human rights conditions. #U.S #Deports #Planeload #Iranians #Deal #Tehran #Officials
Updates on agricultural market developments and food security Members heard updates from representatives of UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the UN World Food Programme (WFP), the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Bank on ongoing issues surrounding food security. UNCTAD emphasized the crucial role of trade in combating food insecurity by […]
A 47-year-old Chinese woman on Monday told a UK court that she played a leading role in a multibillion-pound fraudulent bitcoin scheme. Businesswoman Qian Zhimin, alias Zhang Yadi, pleaded guilty at London’s Southwark Crown Court following what is believed to be the single largest cryptocurrency seizure in the world, now worth about £5.5 billion (US$7.4 […]
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