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The Chinese embassy in the UK has targetted the head of Britain secret intelligence service, accusing Richard Moore of peddling fake news after the MI6 chie

Jubilee Debt Campaign has found that lower-income countries spend approximately five times more on debt than they spend coping with the effects of climate change and reducing carbon emissions. The charity's figures show that 34 of the world's poorest countries spend $29.4 billion a year on debt repayments, compared with $5.4 billion (£3.9 billion) spent on climate change measures.

Climate change will increase the risk of disease and hunger and poor countries that are slow to adapt to its impacts will be particularly vulnerable, finds a new study

Merck has taken a step to make its antiviral pill available in poor nations, but many obstacles remain for broad access to coronavirus drugs.

World Bank calls for comprehensive approach

WASHINGTON, Oct 11 — The debt burden of the world’s low-income countries rose 12 per cent to a record US$860 billion (RM3.5 trillion) in 2020 as countries responded to the Covid-19 crisis with massive fiscal, monetary, and financial stimulus packages, the World Bank said in a report released...

World Bank says over half of the world’s poorest countries are in external debt distress and the situation could worsen.

Vaccins anticovid: Amnesty accuse les laboratoires de délaisser les pays pauvres

On the cover, the brand of the Italian military technology company Leonardo spa, the Italian president Sergio Mattarella, Bill Gates, owner of Microsoft, and the American president Joseph Biden by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy Versione originale in Italiano All links to Italian reports can read in English with simultaneous machine translating When […]

Nur 43 Prozent aller Beschäftigten werden nach Tarif bezahlt, nicht einmal jeder fünfte Betrieb ist tarifgebunden. Ein Wissenschaftler sieht die Gründe dafür in der Imagepolitik vergangener Jahre. In keinem anderen Bundesland wird so wenig nach Tarif gezahlt wie in Sachsen. Nur 43 Prozent aller Beschäftigten arbeiten hier in einem tarifgebundenen Betrieb, wie aus einer Analyse des Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Instituts (WSI) der gewerkschaftsnahen Hans-Böckle...