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The distribution of personal wealth varies significantly across the world's regions, reflecting economic disparities driven by differences in development, resource availability and access to finance, according to an analysis by...

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is considering the possibility of closing the mBridge pilot project, a cross-border payments platform that Russian President Vladimir Putin considers a solution to circumvent international sanctions...

Our country is in the middle of the European ranking in terms of burnout, but it is registering an increasing trend, especially among young people, claims Professor Dragoş Iliescu, a lecturer at the University of Bucharest. He noted that...

The final declaration of the BRICS 2024 Summit held last week in Russia, a document that emphasizes supporting Africa in this period of global transformation, is a gauntlet thrown in the face of the US, according to an article published on Friday...

Russia has proposed the establishment of a grain exchange between the member states of the BRICS group, which could later be expanded to trade other important raw materials, President Vladimir Putin said yesterday in the inaugural speech at the...

The BRICS summit that is taking place these days in Kazan, Russia, also has on its agenda the request made by Turkey to acquire the status of a full member of that economic organization, after until now it had observer status. Turkish President...

The BRICS member states must take several critical decisions at the Kazan summit in order to improve cooperation within the group, Russian leader Vladimir Putin said yesterday, on the first day of the BRICS summit he is hosting.

Poverty is one of the major "diseases" of the beginning of the 21st century. The interweaving of crises accentuates the gulf between opulent wealth and abject poverty. Over a billion people worldwide live in conditions of acute poverty,...

Mirjana Spoljaric, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), drew attention to the dangers caused by non-compliance with international humanitarian law and called on states to once again give political priority to its...

Natura "îşi face de cap" peste tot în lume. Fenomene meteo mai puţin obişnuite se întâlnesc la tot pasul. O femeie de 39 de ani a murit din cauza hipotermiei după ce a rămas blocată toată noaptea într-un microbuz, pe o şosea grav afectată...

Nature "makes its head" everywhere in the world. Unusual weather phenomena are encountered at every turn. A 39-year-old woman has died of hypothermia after being stuck overnight in a minibus on a road badly affected by unusually heavy...

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and the British judiciary are protecting the illegal businesses of oligarchs from the former Soviet states in Asia who run the company Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC), this is the conclusion of an...

Despite many countries switching from fossil fuels to cleaner ones, global coal consumption will reach an all-time high of 164 Exajoules (EJ) in 2023, according to a Visual Capitalist analysis highlighting coal's role in the energy mix...

It is not right that Turkey, which is a member state of NATO, requested to become a member of BRICS, even though the last organization is not a military one, but only an economic one, said deputy Nicu Fălcoi (USR), vice-president of the...

Turkey's accession to BRICS is strictly the option of the authorities in Ankara, and contesting this decision by Romanian politicians would contravene the strategic and commercial interests of our country, political expert Iulian Chifu,...

Turkey has formally applied to join the BRICS group of emerging nations, seeking to strengthen its global influence and forge new ties beyond its traditional Western allies, according to sources cited by Bloomberg.

Specialists in ocean activity have noticed a thermal anomaly in the surface waters of the Atlantic Ocean, which are unusually cold for this time of the year, a phenomenon that began to manifest itself as early as May. This accelerated cooling,...

Putin is escalating the war to a global scale by successively adopting, over the past year, new legal norms (read...

Since 1900, the United Kingdom has accounted for almost a quarter of global market capitalization, according to visualcapitalist.com, which has compiled a country-by-country ranking of the industry covering the years 1900 and 2023.

Confirmation of the weather records set this hot summer is coming from several directions. Last month was the hottest July on record and marked the 14th consecutive monthly temperature record, according to a US agency. 2024 currently has a 77%...

Freedom was wider before the COVID-19 pandemic, and now we hardly remember that until the year 2020 we lived completely differently. Moreover, epidemics had a profound impact on the history of humanity, shaping the course of civilizations and...

Global energy consumption has significant regional variations due to differences in levels of industrialization, climatic conditions, population density and access to natural resources, as well as differences in energy policies and economic...

Temperature records are no longer uncommon, but they must be marked. July 2024 was the hottest month ever recorded in China since the beginning of meteorological measurements, Chinese state media announced, as the heat wave affects several areas...

Nine of the world's ten busiest ports are in Asia, underscoring the eastward shift of global trade flows in 2024, according to a visualcapitalist.com analysis.

Commodity markets faced selling pressure last week due to uncertainties over the upcoming US presidential election, concerns over the Chinese economy and rising agricultural production in Brazil, according to an analysis by Anadolu news agency....

Almost half of the world's population lives in countries that have organized or will organize presidential or legislative elections in 2024, which requires a closer look at how democracy is perceived to function in those countries.

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The world's major economic powers, the US and China, are home to the majority of dollar millionaires in absolute terms, but there are other countries where the millionaire population, although small in number, is growing at the fastest rate....

The NATO summit, an event taking place these days in Washington and marking the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Alliance, will not give Ukraine an answer regarding its request to join that organization, but it would strengthen the...

Children are very attracted to technology and toys. The combination can be quite dangerous for the...environment. Most children between the ages of 6 and 11 in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region have an object that generates e-waste...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will attract, in 2024, the most millionaires, i.e. high-net-worth individuals (HNWI), while China and Great Britain will lose the largest number of such people, according to the latest Henley Private Wealth...

Europe dominates the world ranking of competitiveness for the current year, with six economies from the region being in the top ten positions, three of which are even in the top five places (Switzerland, Denmark, Ireland), according to the...

The world is meteorologically in a transitional phase. The probability that the La Nina weather pattern, characterized by low temperatures in the Pacific Ocean, will develop between July and September is 65%, a US government weather agency...

Agricultural products represented more than a third of the total value of global merchandise exports between 2019 and 2021, and the most dependent countries in the world in terms of profile exports are the island states in the Pacific Ocean,...

The excessive heat of the past year has raised concern. El Nino, the natural weather phenomenon that added to the warming process and made 2023 the warmest year on record, has come to an end, paving the way for the likely return in the coming...

Italian luxury sports footwear maker Golden Goose Group SA will launch an initial public offering (IPO) on the Milan Stock Exchange, which is poised to become Italy's biggest listing in the past year, according to Bloomberg.

The need for a real partnership between political decision-makers and civil society, between governments, parliaments and citizens, was the main topic of debate at the 12th edition of the Global Forum of Modern Direct Democracy, an event that...

Good intentions in the field of nature protection are only partially materialized to the end. Only a third of the world's marine protected areas (MPAs) are subject to a high or full level of protection to conserve biodiversity and increase...

România participă cu 2.300 de militari şi 220 de mijloace tehnice la un exerciţiu multinaţional organizat, în luna mai, de Comandamentul Forţelor Terestre ale SUA în Europa şi Africa, informează news.ro.