UN trade agency report shows global FDI to developing countries has dropped again
According to UNCTAD, the decrease was primarily due to rising geopolitical tensions and concerns over “greenwashing”, a marketing practice to make things seem more environmentally friendly than they actually are.
How rigid asylum rules and inhuman handling of migrants are pushing people north to UK
Europe’s increasingly strict asylum rules, growing xenophobia and hostile treatment of migrants were pushing them north. While the UK government has been hostile, too, many migrants have family or friends in the UK and a perception they will have more opportunities there.
Kenyan, Somali presidents present as Western leaders refocus on Ukraine-vs-Russia war
Experts say they’ll be looking at the wording of any outcome document and plans for the way forward. Swiss officials, aware of Russia’s reticence about the conference, have repeatedly said they hope Russia can join the process one day, as do Ukrainian officials.
China keeps off as world leaders join Ukraine summit in Zurich in test of Kyiv’s diplomatic clout
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday Russia would end the war in Ukraine only if Kyiv agreed to drop its NATO ambitions and hand over the entirety of four provinces claimed by Moscow – demands Kyiv swiftly rejected as tantamount to surrender.
Brute violence against children earns Sudan, Congo, Haiti and East Asia spots on UN blacklist
The report for the first time put both Israeli forces and Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants on the blacklist for violating children’s rights in 2023 during Hamas’ October 7 surprise invasion of southern Israel and its massive military retaliation in Gaza that is ongoing.
Revealed: While the US trains African coup leaders, it’s quick to blame Russia for bloody coups on the continent
The total number of US-trained mutineers across Africa since 9/11 may be far higher than is known, but the State Department, which tracks data on US trainees, is either unwilling or unable to supply it.
By using dollar as the currency of political and economic sanctions US dares world to find an alternative
Over the past three weeks, I have been asking financial services executives, global investors and other experts in Asia and the United States how long they think the Americans can keep at it without meaningful blowback. Several of the sources requested anonymity to speak candidly about the situation.
The big ‘Techno Foods’ lie: Artificial foods won’t feed the world, they are marketed to make tech entrepreneurs richer
Lab meat (or cellular meat) is not “fake” meat but is an attempt to grow real meat in a laboratory. Stem cells are taken from a live animal and placed in a man-made soup of genetically modified growth hormones and other synthetic “nutrients” which are brewed together in steel vats or bioreactors.
Voters worldwide shun elections as democracy is bastardised, reduced to a vague dynastic idea
As half the world’s population votes in elections this year, voters are in a foul mood. From South Korea to Poland to Argentina, incumbents have been ousted in election after election. In Latin America alone, leaders and their parties had lost 20 elections in a row until this past weekend’s presidential election in Mexico, according to a tally by Steven Levitsky, a Harvard professor of government.
New probe unearths how 47 countries in Western world hide data on Covid lockdowns and vaccines excess deaths
The Norwegian authors found “significant” excess mortality in 2021 and 2022 for all causes (3.7 per cent and 14.5 per cent), for cardiovascular diseases (14.3 per cent and 22.0 per cent), and for malignant tumours in 2022 (3.5 per cent).
