From fishing subsidies to agricultural reforms, the World Trade Organization failed to reach common ground.
Negotiators came away from a World Trade Organization conference of government ministers without advancing a single major initiative, aside from renewing a longtime moratorium on digital media taxes.
Despite prolonging its 13th Ministerial Conference, hosted by the United Arab Emirates, for an extra day, WTO concluded its weeklong gathering in Abu Dhabi on Saturday after failing to reach any consensus on fishing subsidies, agricultural reforms, and other major trading issues.
A proposed 2% minimum tax on billionaires will be taken up at Brazil's G-20 Leaders' Summit in November.
The effects of climate change hit hard from the bombed streets of Gaza to the glitzy venues of the Paris Olympics.
The U.N.'s annual report card shows the Sustainable Development Goals improved from 85% off track last year.
Developing nations' 30% share of global public debt in 2023, particularly in Asia and Oceania, rose from 16% in 2010.
The Court of Justice of the European Union's rulings in two landmark cases will cost the tech giants billions of euros.
People's health, nature and farmland all suffer from the spiraling negative impacts, says the U.N. health agency
Landlocked between Russia and China, Mongolia depends on Russia to meet its energy needs and China to buy its exports.
The guidance comes weeks before the U.N. General Assembly takes up the issue of AMR at its high-level meeting this month.
