Global growth to remain subdued in 2025, warns United Nations
The United Nations forecasts the global economy will remain sluggish at 2.8% growth in 2025 due to weak investment, ...
UN predicts world economic growth at subdued 2.8% in 2025
The world economy resisted battering by conflicts and inflation last year and is expected to grow a subdued 2.8% in 2025, the United Nations said Thursday.
Singapore tops global innovation ranking of over 70 countries
Rounding out the top five innovative countries were the US, New Zealand, Sweden and Switzerland. Read more at ...
US declares genocide in Sudan. Critics say Biden acted too late.
The U.S. charged Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo and his Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary-turned-rebel-group largely ...
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Lebanon army chief Aoun becomes president after two-year vacancy
BEIRUT: Lebanese lawmakers elected army chief Joseph Aoun as president on Thursday (Jan 9), ending a more than two-year ...
Australia violated refugees' rights in offshore detention centre, says UN
A U.N. committee found that Australia violated a human rights treaty by detaining a group of asylum seekers, including minors ...
Australia responsible for arbitrary detention of asylum seekers, UN committee finds
Australia has been accused of trying to “escape its human rights responsibility” after a UN committee found it was responsible for arbitrary detention of asylum seekers in Nauru.