Security Council multilateral off-ramp is essential: Guterres
Strengthening international cooperation and delivering on a UN pact that calls for reforming global governance, among other measures, was the focus of debate in the Security Council on Tuesday.
The ministerial-level meeting was convened by China, which holds the rotating Council presidency this month, as the UN prepares to mark its 80th anniversary later this year.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres opened the debate emphasizing that “global solidarity and solutions are needed more than ever” as the climate crisis rages and inequalities and poverty increase.
Trump to cut funding in medical research sector
The Trump administration is going to cut billions of dollars in medical research funding by reducing the amount of costs to support for universities, hospitals and other scientific institutions.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) told that it was reducing the amount of “indirect” medical research funding going to institutions, which will cut spending by $4bn a year.
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Namibia’s leader Sam Nujoma dies
Sam Nujoma, the guerrilla leader who became Namibia's first president after it won independence from South Africa in 1990, died aged 95 on Saturday, the Namibian presidency said in a post on Facebook.
"Our Founding Father lived a long and consequential life during which he exceptionally served the people of his beloved country," said a statement from President Nangolo Mbumba.
US tariffs on Canada, Mexico comes today
President Donald Trump announced that his 25 per cent tariffs on Canada and Mexico will come into effect on Saturday, though he is still considering whether to include oil from these countries in the import taxes.
“We may or may not,” Trump told reporters on Thursday in the Oval Office, referring to imposing tariffs on oil from Canada and Mexico. “We’re going to make that decision probably tonight.”
Trump explained that his decision would depend on whether the oil prices charged by the two trading partners are fair. However, the primary rationale behind the threatened tariffs is to address illegal immigration and the smuggling of chemicals used to produce fentanyl.
The potential imposition of tariffs on Canadian and Mexican oil could contradict Trump’s repeated promise to reduc...
What China and India must do to join the rich club
“To get rich is glorious” is the maxim that inspired one of the most successful development strategies of the past 50 years. It’s an aspiration widely shared across developing countries—and for good reason. When countries become wealthier, the results can be glorious. Living standards rise. Poverty recedes. The propensity to pollute dwindles, as products and production methods improve.
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Why Harris picked Walz as running-mate
KEN MARTIN, the chairman of the Democratic-Farmer-Labour Party (DFL), Minnesota’s affiliate of the Democratic Party, tells a story about how the state’s governor, Tim Walz, got his start in politics. In 2004 Mr Walz was a high-school teacher in Mankato, a town of 45,000 people in the south of the state. In that year’s presidential election, he decided to take his class to a George W. Bush event. Unbeknown to him, his students had hatched a plan to tease the then president. “They all had [John] Kerry shirts on,” says Mr Martin. “They ripped t...
