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Artificial intelligence
Rival nations seek to poach top UK and European AI start-ups
...Rival nations have suggested AI start-ups face less strenuous regulation than in Europe....
March 20, 2024
News in-depthGlobal Economy
The pandemic’s stark legacy: widening inequality between countries
Debt burdens resulting from Covid-19 have impeded poorer nations’ ability to invest
March 13, 2024
FT Live
Financial Times @COP
FT Live events coinciding with COP
Monday, 11 NovemberBaku, Azerbaijan
Education
‘Learning crisis’ brews in lower-income countries, warn experts
Plans to scrap numeracy and literacy barometers risk reducing pressure on governments to boost education
February 7, 2024
Israel-Hamas war
Israel has not provided evidence to support UNRWA claims, report says
Independent review commissioned by UN says relief agency needs to improve neutrality
April 22, 2024
Climate change
Lack of controls on climate engineering risks lasting damage, UN says
...Nations failed to back a proposal by Switzerland and Monaco for a scientific research group to examine technology to block the sun’s rays, at a UN assembly in Nairobi last week....
March 6, 2024
The FT ViewThe editorial board
The pursuit of happiness
...Out of 143 countries, the rich, low-inequality and high-welfare Scandinavian nations rank near the top. The G7 nations are spread between 15th and 51st place....
March 22, 2024
FT Live
Climate Capital Live
The leading global platform for climate science, finance and business
Wednesday, 19 March 2025London, UK & Online
COP29
Climate finance must be COP29 summit priority, UN leaders say
...The 200-odd nations that will gather in Baku are expected to bring improved targets for emissions reductions....
March 14, 2024
Israel-Hamas war
UN officials call for probe into reports of mass graves at Gaza hospitals
Human rights chief says he is horrified by destruction at Nasser and al-Shifa medical facilities
April 23, 2024
Palestine
US votes against move to give Palestinians UN membership
...“The United States is voting no on this proposed Security Council resolution,” state department spokesperson Vedant Patel said earlier on Thursday, adding that Washington saw direct negotiations between...
April 18, 2024
News updates from October 27: IDF expands Gaza ground operations, Fed’s preferred inflation gauge hits 2-year low
United Nations agencies unable to reach staff in Gaza
October 27, 2023
Live news: Tesla notches seventh straight loss ahead of Tuesday earnings release
Israel has not provided evidence of UNWRA claims, report says
...Israel’s allegations prompted 16 donor countries to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency including the US and several EU member states to halt a combined $450mn in funding....
April 22, 2024
Live news: UK alcohol-related deaths up one-third on pre-pandemic levels, ONS data shows
UN warns aviation authorities against Rwanda deportation flights
...Experts from the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said removing asylum-seekers to the central African country, or anywhere else from where they would be at risk of being sent...
April 22, 2024
Live news: Tesla notches seventh straight loss ahead of Tuesday earnings release
Israel has not provided evidence of UNRWA claims, report says
...Israel’s allegations prompted 16 donor countries to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency including the US and several EU member states to halt a combined $450mn in funding....
April 22, 2024
News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
The desperate struggle to find food in Gaza
More than 500,000 people face ‘catastrophe’ in besieged enclave, UN agencies warn
January 21, 2024
Nilanjana Roy
What makes a literary city?
Some emerge naturally but others need a nudge, with bookshops, festivals and more, to welcome readers and writers
February 14, 2024
FT Live
Moral Money Summit Americas
Unlocking opportunities for a greener and fairer world
Tuesday, 15 OctoberNew York, USA
Robert McCorquodale
Business deserves clarity on human rights responsibilities
The delay in approving a new EU directive does a disservice to companies that need legal certainty
March 10, 2024
COP29
UN climate chief pleads for funding as government budgets feel strain
...Speaking as more than 30 countries met in Copenhagen for a two-day ministerial meeting, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Simon Stiell said its budget was less...
March 21, 2024
Agricultural commodities
Humanity loves a cup of tea. So where’s the futures market?
...To quote the avuncular, ’roided out Iroh, former Fire Nation General and tea aficionado from Avatar: The Last Airbender, “the key to wisdom and tea is proper ageing.”...
March 1, 2024
Israel-Hamas war
UN expert says Israel committing genocide in Gaza
Jewish state rejects claim made by special rapporteur to human rights council
March 26, 2024
Climate change
UN climate chief calls on citizens to ‘raise their voices’ ahead of elections
Simon Stiell seeks to push global warming to top of public agenda as big polluters go to the polls this year
April 10, 2024
News in-depthClimate change
Negotiators seek money for climate action at spring meetings
...notably in Africa and Latin America, argue that exploiting their oil and gas wealth is critical to their economic development and view halting climate change as chiefly the responsibility of wealthier nations...
April 15, 2024
Climate change
World in ‘unknown territory’ after heat records, says head of UN’s climate body
IPCC chair Jim Skea believes ‘more science needed’ to understand extraordinary temperatures over past year
March 13, 2024
Ecuador
Mexico demands UN expels Ecuador after raid on its embassy
...“The court, in accordance with the United Nations charter, should approve the expulsion, and there should be no veto [from the UN Security Council],” Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said at...
April 12, 2024
News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
Israel-UN relations plunge to new low as Gaza war rages
Deadly strikes on dozens of UN buildings heighten tensions as Jewish state accuses organisation of bias
December 27, 2023
Space industry
Are investors prepared for *checks notes* nuclear war in space?
...It is overseen by the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOUS), but this body cannot legally mandate any nation to follow it....
February 23, 2024

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