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Here are the global risks in the short term, i.e roughly in the next two years, as per the latest World Economic Forum (WEF) report.

The “experts,” of course, are selected by the World Economic Forum, which just so happens to run the annual gathering of the transnational elite in Davos, Switzerland....

North Korea's communist dictator kicked off the year by threatening to annihilate America. China, facing another year of economic turmoil and record-high youth unemployment, continues to threaten to conquer Taiwan and engage its defenders. Ukraine remains occupied by nearly 500,000 Russian troop...

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The report warned of a global risk landscape in which progress in human development is being chipped away slowly, leaving states and individuals vulnerable to new and resurgent risks

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Extreme weather events are becoming more common. CHKnox/Getty Images Extreme weather is a prime concern for business leaders and politicians. Those risks are…

Artificial intelligence-powered misinformation and disinformation pose the largest short-term global threat to the world, according to a new report from the World Economic Forum. They are followed by extreme weather events and societal polarization as global threats, according to the report, which uses a survey of nearly 1,500 experts in areas of academia, business and…

WEF Study: On a short-term horizon of two years, the report identified misinformation and disinformation as the biggest risk, followed by extreme weather events, societal polarisation, cyber insecurity and inter-state armed conflict in the top five.