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Supermarket giant Carrefour’s support for French farmers’ protests against a trade agreement between the European Union and the South American bloc Mercosur has sparked a strong reaction in Brazil

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In a not-too-distant past, treating oneself to a snack meant having a samosa, aloo chaat, vada pav or jhaal muri. Admittedly, many of these dishes weren’t exactly nutritious but they were all made fresh, and sold within hours, if not minutes, of being made.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. America’s gross national debt is $36trn, or $107,000 per person. It is rising fast and will probably soon be rising even faster.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. With this year’s global summits on biodiversity (CoP-16) and climate change (CoP-29) done and the one on desertification (CoP-16) fast approaching, the consequences of the climate emergency are evident everywhere. Floods have ravaged central Europe, super-typhoon Yagi has just struck Southeast Asia, and Hurricanes Helene and Milton have wreaked havoc in the southeastern US.

BAKU: The COP29 climate summit is nearly 24 hours into overtime with no final agreement in sight as negotiators suspended the meeting after talks through Friday and Saturday failed to produce a compromise acceptable to all.

Janhvi Kapoor. In an exciting development, Netflix has officially added the Hindi version of Devara to its streaming catalogue. This update comes as a treat for North Indian audiences who have been eagerly anticipating its release. The film is already available for streaming on Netflix in various international languages, including English, Korean, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese, as well as South Indian languages like Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam.

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has announced that his government plans to retire all coal and other fossil fuel-powered power plants within 15 years, while drastically boosting renewable energy capacity

The UK officially launched the Global Clean Power Alliance at the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro yesterday, fuelling hopes that a growing coalition of countries are willing to push for an ambitious new climate agreement at the COP29 Summit in Baku. Brazil, Australia, Barbados, Canada, Chile, Colombia, France, Germany, Morocco, Norway, Tanzania, and the African Union have committed to supporting the new alliance's first 'Mission', while the US and EU have been named as partners of the initiative.  COP29: Keir Starmer confirms UK will aim to cut emissions 81% by 2035 Prime Minister Kei...

Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has welcomed China’s President Xi Jinping for a state visit at the Alvorada Palace in Brasilia, in the latest sign of deepening ties between the two countries that analysts say may accelerate as Donald Trump...

Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), Artificial Intelligence and data for governance amid global economic growth at just over 3%, its lowest rate since the turn of the century. Accelerating progress towards the SDGs requires inclusive digital transformation.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: As state-run NTPC is set start construction of its green hydrogen hub in Andhra Pradesh by the end of the month, the company is in talks with possible buyers of the green molecule. NTPC is in talks with Japan's EPC major Toyo Engineering Corp.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. RIO DE JANEIRO—When Brazilian President Luiz Inácio “Lula" da Silva called for “more multilateralism" at the opening of the Group of 20 nations summit on Monday, the remark appeared aimed at someone who wasn’t in the room: Donald Trump. Many leaders from Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa at the G-20 summit and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Peru last week made clear their alarm at prospects for a sharp U.S.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. RIO DE JANEIRO : As Xi Jinping prepares for a thorny trade relationship with President-elect Donald Trump, he is cultivating a rapport with someone he calls a like-minded good friend, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The populist leftist shares Xi’s goals of checking America’s global economic dominance.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Last month’s Brics summit in Kazan, Russia, was, like all summits, heavy on photo ops. And it yielded a second act that was similarly heavier on symbolism than substance: the release of a report by the Russian finance ministry and central bank on “improvement of the international monetary and financial system," by which Russian officials obviously meant “finding an alternative to the weaponized dollar." Expressions of dissatisfaction with the dominance of the dollar over global money and finance go back at least to French finance minister Valéry Giscard d’Estaing in 1965, who famously lamented the greenback’s “exorbitant privilege." Indeed, the desire for an alternative played no small part in the creation of the euro 34 years later.

United Nations Security Council (UNSC), emphasising the Council’s outdated structure, which no longer reflects modern global realities. Speaking at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish, stated, «The Security Council structure, as it stands today, is a reflection of 1945. It does not reflect today's realities.» Harish, delivering a keynote address titled Responding to Key Global Challenges: The India Way, underscored that the current framework hinders the UNSC’s ability to tackle pressing issues effectively.

Last year, then-presidential candidate Javier Milei declared Argentina would not “make deals with communists” in China or Brazil, calling their leaders “murderers” and “thieves” in a bid to channel the populist energies of Donald Trump into a winning p...

Time is running short for negotiators at the United Nations climate talks in Azerbaijan to solve a difficult puzzle

Belem, a bustling metropolitan area of 2.5 million people near the mouth of the Amazon River, is preparing to host COP30 next year

Japan racked up a trade deficit in October for the fourth month in a row, as a weak yen and rising energy prices kept import costs high

Brazil’s president has opened the second day of a meeting of the world’s 20 major economies by calling for more action to slow global warming, saying developed nations must speed up their initiatives to reduce harmful emissions

Big money to respond to climate change is key to the United Nations talks underway in Azerbaijan