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APP United Nations: Global trade could contract by three percent following the United States' latest tariff measures, which may ultimately reshape international supply chains and foster untapped regional trade ties, a senior UN economist…

AFP/APP Geneva: The global artificial intelligence (AI) market is projected to soar to $4.8 trillion by 2033—equivalent to the size of Germany’s economy—raising significant concerns about job displacement, according to a new report by…

AFP/APP Geneva: All 19 of the world's glacier regions experienced a net loss of mass in 2024 for the third consecutive year, the United Nations (UN) reported on Friday, emphasizing that preserving glaciers is now a matter of "survival."…

AFP/APP Geneva: Saving the world's shrinking glaciers is a "survival strategy" for the planet, the UN emphasized on Tuesday, a day after President Donald Trump announced the US would withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord. United…

AFP/APP Geneva: Climate change triggered a series of extreme weather events and record-breaking heat in 2024, the United Nations reported on Monday, urging global action to avert the "road to ruin." The outgoing year is set to be the…

AFP/APP Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that an Israeli military operation on Friday targeting Hamas militants near the Kamal Adwan Hospital has put the last major health facility in northern Gaza out of service.…

AFP/APP Geneva: The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, whose operations in Israel were banned by the Israeli parliament on Monday, is seen by some as an "irreplaceable" humanitarian lifeline in Gaza, but as an accomplice of Hamas by…

AFP/APP Geneva: Britain is urgently looking to reset its trading relationship with the European Union, and sees international commerce as key to reviving UK growth, trade minister Douglas Alexander told AFP. Alexander said Britain's…

AFP/APP Geneva:  The United Nations (UN) has issued a stark warning about the increasing unpredictability of the planet's water cycle, highlighting that intensified floods and droughts are a "distress signal" of the climate crisis.…

AFP/APP Paris: World leaders on Tuesday sounded the alarm over fears of a wider war after Lebanon suffered its deadliest day in two decades due to Israeli air strikes on Hezbollah strongholds. Following nearly a year of cross-border…