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Housing and climate resilience dominate Latin American agenda at WUF13

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Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan’s social justice agenda takes stage at Doha Summit

At the World Summit in Qatar, Uzbekistan showcases its social development vision, advancing global cooperation, justice, poverty reduction, and inclusive growth.

Health news

Global health donors cut aid to lowest level in 15 years, study finds

The United States has made the deepest cuts, but the United Kingdom, Germany, and France have also reduced global health aid this year.

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AIIB at 10: A decade of development and the road ahead

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The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is holding its 10th Annual Meeting of Board of Governors from June 24 to 26 in Beijing.

Business

AIIB elects former anti-corruption official as new president

Zou Jiayi has been elected as the next president of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) by the group’s board of governors.

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Earth News

Urban wilding in action: Breda becomes EU's first National Park City

Breda joins just three other cities globally in achieving the status.

Travel News

Could a steep increase in Bali’s tourist tax deter unwanted visitors?

Other destinations, including Venice and Barcelona, have seen mixed results from raising tourism taxes.

Europe News

Open markets and global finance system will endure, says AIIB

Earlier this week, Trump slapped tariffs on Canada and Mexico, only to put them on hold a day later, after the governments in both countries promised action to improve controls at their respective border with the U.S.

Europe News

Exclusive: EU plans to slash 80 offices abroad amid refocus

The European Commission's department for international partnerships is undergoing a strategic downsizing of its worldwide offices in a shift of focus under the new mandate of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

Nature

Population growth will push humans into wildlife habitats, study says

Predicting where this overlap will cause problems is part of the solution to avoiding conflict.

Economy

Euroviews. Proper EBRD policies can avoid further disgrace in Ukraine

As the EBRD looks to the year ahead, we urge the bank to take this opportunity to reframe its policies with human and environmental rights at their core, Alexandre Andrade Sampaio and Caitlin Daniel write.

Europe News

Euroviews. EU budget cuts threaten the union's global leadership

The money the EU invests in global challenges abroad is the tangible manifestation of our European values in action, reflecting the international commitments the union has made, Pascal Lamy, Andris Piebalgs, Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, Neven Mimica and Charles Goerens write.

Tech News

Euroviews. There is a better way to engage people in infrastructure development

Local dividend systems could positively transform infrastructure projects’ costs and timeline to completion, but also revitalise communities’ engagement in their own future, in ways that were never possible before, Taavi Kotka writes.

Niger

Euroviews. Niger is the latest victim of Africa’s development paradox

Under the sticky colonial development model of resource extraction, African natural resources have been a blessing for former colonial powers and a curse for source countries and the entire continent as a whole, Hippolyte Fofack writes.

World News

Euroviews. The EU needs to spend more on tech to keep up with China and the US

In a world where digital increasingly comes first, tech superpowers are those everyone will be listening to, and the EU is now being put to the test of whether it could and would stand amongst them, Cristian Gherasim writes.

United Kingdom

'Class war': London's street markets cling on against 'gentrification'

London's traditional street markets - the beating heart of many communities in the British capital - are being rapidly replaced with shopping malls, offices and luxury housing.

Earth News

Global South women should be ‘leaders, not victims’ in climate crisis

“Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and local community women and girls should be leaders of climate action, not victims of climate policies,” says Archana Soreng, youth climate activist.