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Who are the candidates running for UN secretary-general?
Reuters, Published on 21/04/2026
» GENEVA — The 10th United Nations (UN) secretary-general will be elected this year for a five-year term starting on Jan 1, 2027.
Biles 'not so sure' about competing at Los Angeles Olympics
AFP, Published on 22/04/2025
» MADRID — American gymnast Simone Biles, voted Sportswoman of the Year at the Laureus Sport Awards ceremony in Madrid, said she remained uncertain about whether she would compete at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
Macondo encountered
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 31/12/2024
» Ideally, good books should be left alone, even if they sit enshrined in a cobweb after a thousand years of solitude. In the reality of today's content industrial complex, that is unacceptable. Every good book can be and must be adapted. To watch is to live, to binge is to breathe. Literature is not a paradigm of text but fodder for algorithm. So here it is, with an air of inevitability, the much-touted, long-awaited, rigidly respectful and adequately decent Netflix series One Hundred Years Of Solitude -- the first eight parts, with the remaining eight coming next year.
Global foreign investment is falling
Oped, John J Metzler, Published on 28/06/2024
» How does today's climate of international chaos and uncertainty serve as a business barometer for foreign investment?
'Unintended consequences': friction at COP28 over green trade
AFP, Published on 05/12/2023
» DUBAI - Inside the negotiating rooms and on the sidelines of the COP28 climate talks, simmering tensions over wealthy countries' "green trade" policies have been bubbling to the surface, with developing nations fearful they will be penalised.
KondZilla, the entrepreneur of Brazilian favela funk
AFP, Published on 06/05/2023
» RIO DE JANEIRO: They say everything he touches turns to gold: KondZilla, the man behind the most popular YouTube channel in Latin America, has revolutionised Brazilian funk music, taking favela beats to a massive online audience.
UN, Russia in Ukraine grain deal talks
AFP, Published on 13/03/2023
» GENEVA: The United Nations and Russia began talks Monday on renewing the Ukraine grain export deal, which has helped ease the global food crisis triggered by Moscow's invasion of its neighbour.
UN, Russia hold talks on grain, fertiliser exports
AFP, Published on 11/11/2022
» GENEVA - United Nations chiefs were holding talks with Russian officials Friday on the Black Sea agreements on exporting grain and fertilisers, eight days before one of the deals is set to expire.
Gadirova gold seals Britain's best ever gymnastics worlds haul
AFP, Published on 07/11/2022
» LIVERPOOL: Jessica Gadirova claimed gold for Britain in the women's floor to seal the hosts' best ever medal haul on the final day of the World Gymnastics Championship in Liverpool on Sunday.
World in crisis needs trade, aid
Oped, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Rebeca Grynspan and Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Published on 28/07/2022
» We are in the toughest period the world economy has faced since the creation of the multilateral system more than three-quarters of a century ago. A quadruple shock of Covid, climate change, conflict and cost-of-living has undone years of hard-fought development gains. As financial conditions tighten, even countries that had seemed on track to prosperity and stability now stare into the abyss of debt distress, fragility and uncertainty about the future.