On Friday, the World Health Organization (WHO) decided to lift the highest alert level for the corona pandemic. “It is with great hope that I declare that Covid-19 is no longer a health crisis of international concern,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The decision was made after the emergency […]
The purchasing power crisis will be the most significant global risk in the next two years. This is according to a report by the World Economic Forum. Next week the organisation’s annual meeting will take place in Davos, Switzerland. The WEF surveyed more than 1,200 politicians, business people, and civil […]
Higher interest rates and sharply increased prices for energy and fertilizers will have a major impact on world trade next year. According to the World Trade Organization (WTO), global imports and exports will increase much less rapidly in 2023 than previously estimated. The WTO now assumes that world trade will […]
Nuclear powers’ spending to modernize their arsenal of nuclear weapons is up nearly 9 percent in 2021, to $82.4 billion. This is according to a report from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. The United States alone spent $44.2 billion on its nuclear program last year, 12.7 percent […]
Worldwide, about one in four women is a victim of intimate partner violence, according to a study by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday. Furthermore, the researchers report in the scientific journal The Lancet that violence also affects very young girls between 15 and 19. The research team […]
UNICEF seizes 24 January, International Day of Education, to sound the alarm about the major learning disadvantages caused by corona measures. Nearly two years after the pandemic outbreak, more than 635 million students are still affected by full or partial school closures, the children’s rights organisation said. The closure […]
More than 90 percent of countries that have taken part in a pollution survey have hundreds of thousands of plastic particles on their coastlines. This is the conclusion of a study by the Scottish environmental organization Fidra. These are nurdles, pieces of plastic no larger than a pea, which […]
Since the start of the corona pandemic, more than 4.5 million deaths from COVID-19 have been recorded worldwide. Based on official figures, a total of 4,500,620 people have died from the coronavirus since the coronavirus outbreak in December 2019. However, the numbers from Johns Hopkins University are slightly higher: […]
Alibaba puts 66 million Pounds into its First European distribution Centre. The Chinese internet giant Alibaba is investing 66 million pounds in its first European distribution centre. That turned out on Wednesday at the signing of the declaration of a plan of the company and the Belgian and Walloon […]
Not only Tesla CEO Elon Musk wants to bring people into space, but the founder of a web store platform Amazon, Jeff Bezos, has the same ambition. The Amazon boss wants to sell space flights next year. From 200,000 dollars tourists will be able to float through space. That’s what […]
