The world has never been more threatened or more divided, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told nations of the world on Tuesday as he kicked off the 76th General Assembly session, urging all 193 member states to “wake up” and realise that solidarity is the […]
A raft of small U.K. gas and power suppliers stopped accepting new customers in a dramatic escalation of the country’s energy crisis. The British government held an emergency meeting with small power suppliers on Tuesday, and by the late afternoon Igloo, Green, Ampower, Utilita and […]
Saudi Arabia’s $430 billion sovereign wealth fund plans to announce its first green debt issuance as it looks to increase the role that environmental, social and governance principles play in its investments. The Public Investment Fund will announce the green issuance “very soon,” Governor Yasir […]
The US House of Representatives is moving to approve $6.3bn in emergency assistance to help resettle Afghan refugees in the United States after the country’s evacuation operation from Kabul last month. The funds are part of a larger $28.6bn disaster relief and stopgap government funding […]
“Get back to work.” That seems to be the message Canadian voters sent to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s party on Monday night, analysts said, as the Liberals retained power but failed to secure a majority in results that were nearly identical to the last federal […]
Hundreds of people have protested outside parliament in Namibia’s capital where an agreement with Germany, in which Germany acknowledged it committed genocide during its colonial occupation, was due to be debated. The crowd of some 400 chanting and placard-carrying, mainly opposition activists marched on Tuesday […]
The images of hundreds of employees with boxes in their hands marching out of the New York City headquarters of Lehman Brothers after the company declared bankruptcy on September 15, 2008 became one of the enduring images of the global financial crisis, a visual shorthand […]
Burundi’s government has promised a thorough investigation into a series of deadly “terrorist” grenade blasts that hit the country’s economic capital, Bujumbura. The attacks late on Monday followed a deadly grenade explosion in a bar in the capital, Gitega, on Sunday and a series of […]
A vast river of molten lava from a Canary Islands volcano continued to destroy everything in its path as it edged towards the sea, where its arrival was expected to generate clouds of toxic gases. A new fissure emerged on the slopes of the Cumbre […]
A raft of small U.K. gas and power suppliers stopped accepting new customers in a dramatic escalation of the country’s energy crisis. The British government held an emergency meeting with small power suppliers on Tuesday, and by the late afternoon Igloo, Green, Ampower, Utilita and […]
