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Mexican president criticizes US aid to Ukraine and sanctions on Latin American nations in high-level meeting

Mexico’s president on Friday slammed U.S. aid for Ukraine and economic sanctions on Venezuela, Cuba and other nations as the first of two high-level U.S.-Mexico meetings got underway in Washington. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador issued a broad criticism of U.S. foreign policy, saying U.S. economic sanctions were forcing people to emigrate from Cuba, Venezuela

Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations

Yves here. KLG reviews the recent Simon Schama book, Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations. While he finds Schama’s offering has a lot of merit, KLG also takes issue with some of Schama’s views. By KLG, who has held research and academic positions in three US medical schools since 1995 and is

World Bank head claims wealthy nations’ contributions could boost lending capacity by over $100B

World Bank Group President Ajay Banga on Tuesday said that proposed new contributions from wealthy countries under a capital adequacy framework could increase the bank’s lending capacity by $100 billion to $125 billion over a decade. Banga told a Council on Foreign Relations event that the contributions would come outside the bank’s normal shareholding structure

US Biden recognises two Pacific nations in move to counter China

President Joe Biden said the United States officially recognized the Pacific nations of Cook Islands and Niue Monday, as he hosted regional leaders in a bid to wrest influence from China. The announcement came at the start of a summit with the 18-member Pacific Islands Forum, where US officials said the president was announcing a

AIIB gains popularity among developing nations

CAIRO: Egyptian experts said the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has achieved international expansion and become more attractive to developing countries that need financing for their ambitious development plans. They made the remarks in the run-up to the opening of the eighth annual meeting of the AIIB Board of Governors in Egypt next Monday and

U.S. diplomat says intelligence from ‘Five Eyes’ nations helped Canada to link India to Sikh’s killing

Information shared by members of an intelligence-sharing alliance was part of what Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used to make public allegations of the Indian government’s possible involvement in the assassination of a Sikh Canadian, the U.S. ambassador to Canada said. “There was shared intelligence among ‘Five Eyes’ partners that helped lead Canada to (make)

Biden Officials Focus on African Crises at United Nations Gathering

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met on Friday with African leaders seeking to restore Niger’s democratically elected government to power, capping a week at the United Nations in which the Biden administration worked to deliver on promises of support amid high-profile crises elsewhere, like the war in Ukraine. In a sign of the instability

Brussels considers defending EU nations in Ukraine grain dispute

Receive free EU trade updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest EU trade news every morning. Brussels is considering whether to defend Poland, Hungary and Slovakia against a lawsuit filed by Kyiv, after the three countries broke EU rules to ban imports of Ukrainian grain that they said were

Is the United Nations still relevant and effective?

This article was originally published in Spanish In the context of global destabilisation exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the 78th UN General Assembly is rethinking the relevance and effectiveness of the international institution. The 78th UN General Assembly (UNGA 78) is taking place under similar conditions to last year: Ukraine continues to defend itself against

United Nations maps out decarbonization of construction sector

PARIS: The construction sector — the most polluting and difficult to decarbonize — must build less, use more sustainable materials and clean up conventional ones to slash its emissions, the United Nations said recently. The industry is responsible for 37 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions and growing urbanization is spurring the construction of new

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Mexican president criticizes US aid to Ukraine and sanctions on Latin American nations in high-level meeting

Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations

World Bank head claims wealthy nations’ contributions could boost lending capacity by over $100B

US Biden recognises two Pacific nations in move to counter China

AIIB gains popularity among developing nations

U.S. diplomat says intelligence from ‘Five Eyes’ nations helped Canada to link India to Sikh’s killing

Biden Officials Focus on African Crises at United Nations Gathering

Brussels considers defending EU nations in Ukraine grain dispute

Is the United Nations still relevant and effective?

United Nations maps out decarbonization of construction sector