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Leaders from Germany and Spain are calling for a global tax on billionaires to help tackle the costs of the climate crisis. Brazil, which chairs the G20 group of the world’s largest economies, first proposed a tax on the super-rich at a meeting of finance ministers in February. Now, finance chiefs from Germany, Spain and South Africa have joined Brazil in fleshing out the proposal which could see the world’s 3,000 billionaires made to pay a minimum 2 per cent levy on their wealth. “It is time that the international community gets serious about tackling inequality and financing global public go...
Euronews (English)
Global stock markets are on track for their third consecutive week of decline amidst escalating tensions in the Middle East conflict. Reports of explosions in Iran have further fuelled concerns, deepening losses across major world benchmark indices. As risk aversion sentiment prevails, investors are flocking to traditional safe-haven assets such as gold, silver, government bonds, and the US dollar. The Japanese Yen and the Swiss Franc have also seen significant spikes as investors seek refuge. Additionally, crude oil prices surged over 3%, with Brent futures surpassing $90 per barrel following...
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Stephen Fry, Richard Curtis, Annie Lennox and Forest Whitaker are among a host of celebrities who have written to G20 leaders calling for a reform to debt and climate crises across the world. The letter was sent ahead of this week's Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group. In their open letter, the leading actors, politicians, artists and economists wrote: "80 years on, we need another Bretton Woods moment," referring to the establishment of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. The "institutions of world finance have lost their muscle", they...
Euronews (English)
Pressure is mounting for global financial reforms to help developing nations tackle climate change. An open letter was sent to G20 leaders ahead of annual World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) meetings this week. It urges them to end “crippling debt” for developing nations and introduce new measures to “make polluters pay”. Signatories include the former Prime Minister of Denmark Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Former Prime Minister of New Zealand Helen Clark, Paris Agreement architect Christiana Figueres as well as celebrities and other influential figures. The more than 100-strong group o...
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By Valérie LEROUX Brasilia (AFP) - Les présidents français Emmanuel Macron et brésilien Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ont affiché jeudi leur entente sur les grands enjeux internationaux, minimisant même leurs divergences sur la guerre en Ukraine. Un accueil à la fois solennel et chaleureux au palais présidentiel de Brasilia, bâtiment et ville modernistes signés de l'architecte Oscar Niemeyer: la visite d'Etat de trois jours de M. Macron chez le géant latino-américain s'est conclue en actant le partenariat tous azimuts et l'"intimité diplomatique" entre les deux pays, selon l'expression employée me...
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Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday pushed for progress on overdue plans to send a UN-backed multinational force to help violence-plagued Haiti. The US and Brazil co-hosted a meeting on the planned force on the sidelines of talks between G20 foreign ministers in Rio de Janeiro. Haiti has been in turmoil for years, with armed gangs taking over parts of the country and unleashing brutal violence, leaving the economy and public health system in tatters. "I think it's safe to say that one of the most urgent challenges we face as an international community is in ...
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Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Brazil criticized the "paralysis" of the UN Security Council on the wars in Gaza and Ukraine as it opened a G20 meeting Wednesday where the international community's deep divisions were on display. The outlook is bleak for progress on the thorny agenda of conflicts and crises gripping the planet as foreign ministers from the world's biggest economies gather in Rio de Janeiro for the Group of 20's first high-level meeting of the year. Opening the two-day meeting, which featured US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Brazil's top d...
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Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - G20 foreign ministers open a two-day meeting Wednesday in Brazil, with the outlook bleak for progress on a thorny agenda of conflicts and crises, from the Gaza and Ukraine wars to growing polarization. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are both expected in Rio de Janeiro for the first high-level G20 meeting of the year -- though not China's Wang Yi. In a world torn by conflicts and divisions, Brazil, which took over the rotating G20 presidency from India in December, has voiced hopes for what President Luiz Inacio Lula da Sil...
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Washington (AFP) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken next week pays his first official visits to Brazil and Argentina, the State Department said Friday, as he looks for common ground with the Latin American powers' independent-minded leaders. Blinken will hold talks with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Brasilia and President Javier Milei in Buenos Aires and also take part in a Group of 20 meeting of foreign ministers in Rio de Janeiro where he could have rare in-person interaction with his Russian counterpart. For the globe-trotting top US diplomat, it has been a striking absence to ...
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By Nidhi Jacob Of all the fact-checks published by BOOM in September, the G20 Summit 2023, the India-Canada diplomatic standoff and the Morocco earthquake were the most popular topics that generated false and misleading claims, accounting for 11%, 5.3% and 4.3%, respectively. Of the 93 fact-checks that were published in September in English, Hindi and Bangla, 31.18% of the claims were Political in nature. This was followed by Communal (13%) and Alarmist (13%) claims. Claims that were political (31.18%) in nature mostly included topics like the 2023 G20 Summit and the Indo-Canadian diplomatic r...
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