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Davos (Switzerland) (AFP) - Veteran US diplomat and politician John Kerry said Wednesday he planned to keep working to address climate change including by encouraging the private sector as he steps away from his envoy role. Kerry said he believed the time was right to move on after the COP28 summit last month in Dubai, where the world for the first time as a whole called for an eventual transition away from fossil fuels responsible for global warming. "I think we had a terrific outcome in Dubai, and I think it's a game-changer," he told AFP at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. "N...
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Davos (Switzerland) (AFP) - Chinese Premier Li Qiang told the world's political and business elites in Davos on Tuesday that "discriminatory" trade barriers were a threat to the global economy, but the United States defended its restrictions on microchips as a national security measure. Li's remarks came as the World Economic Forum's 54th annual conference is preoccupied with a slew of global risks, including wars in Ukraine and Gaza, climate change and the rapid rise of artificial intelligence. Li shared the spotlight with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who attended the forum in pers...
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Paris (AFP) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Middle East leaders will attend a World Economic Forum in Davos next week dominated by the war in Gaza, the WEF said Tuesday. Argentina's libertarian new president, Javier Milei, French President Emmanuel Macron and Chinese Premier Li Qiang will also be among the headliners at the January 15-19 meeting of the world's political and business elites in the Swiss Alps. The conflict in the Middle East is set to loom over the annual forum, held this year under the theme "Rebuilding Trust". Russia's war in Ukraine ...
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Davos (Switzerland) (AFP) - The World Economic Forum in Davos wrapped up Friday after a week that featured feverish discussion of the war in Ukraine, rifts over global trade and Greta Thunberg crashing the party of the global elite. Here's a summary of the hottest topics and main events: TanksUkraine sent a huge national delegation to Davos to lobby hard for new weapons and financial support to help it push Russian forces out of occupied territories, with the German-made Leopard tanks high on the wish-list. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who made an appearance on Wednesday, was pressured from ...
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Davos (Switzerland) (AFP) - US actor Mark Ruffalo on Tuesday joined a call by over 150 wealthy people for governments to tax them more, as global elites and policymakers met at the World Economic Forum in Swiss resort Davos. The face of Hulk in a decade of Marvel movies was one of dozens of new millionaires to put their names to an open letter titled "In Tax We Trust", which was first delivered to attendees at a virtual WEF conference in January. "While the world has gone through an immense amount of suffering in the last two years, we have actually seen our wealth rise during the pandemic -- ...
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Davos (Switzerland) (AFP) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky used the Davos summit Monday to appeal for more weapons and "maximum" sanctions against Russia, lamenting that tens of thousands of lives would have been saved had countries acted faster. Appearing by video-link, Zelensky delivered the headline speech to the first World Economic Forum to be held in the Swiss Alps in more than two years after the Covid pandemic derailed the event. The conflict shows "that support to the country under attack is more valuable the sooner it is provided: weapons, funding, political support and sanct...
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