News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 2
World News in Brief: Shipping alert from IMO, democracy vanishing in Nicaragua, alert over political ‘denialism’
- UN News
Amid a rising number of attacks on shipping in key waterways in the Middle East linked to the US-Iran war, the head of UN maritime agency, Mr. Arsenio Dominguez, has insisted that the conflict is not a “pretext” to target “innocent seafarers”.
September 11 and the End of the American Dream - The Day That Changed Everything
- Inter Press Service
On 11 September 2001 I was in New York, on one of my frequent visits to the United Nations, to which I was tied by a consultancy contract. That morning I woke up late, around eleven, sleeping off the jet lag of the flight from Italy. I was staying at the Hyatt Park, today the Millennium. A hotel a few metres from the Glass Palace, built to serve the world of the United Nations.
Investment in Irrigation Systems Is Vital in Preparing for the Next Climate Shock
- Inter Press Service
KIGALI, September 14 (IPS) - When the African continent experiences erratic rains, crops fail, leaving millions of people facing hunger.
Money sent home by migrants nearly doubles in a decade
- UN News
Migrants sent $728.6 billion home to families in low and middle-income countries in 2025, nearly double the amount recorded a decade earlier, according to a new report from the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
Countries must increase AI regulation to avoid ‘existential risks’: Türk
- UN News
Voluntary self-regulation by companies developing frontier artificial intelligence (AI) is “nowhere near sufficient” to address existing harms and prevent advanced autonomous AI models from circumventing human safeguards, UN human rights chief Volker Türk wrote on Monday.
International Trade Theory Not Developmental
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, September 14 (IPS) - Most free trade advocates falsely claim that comparative advantage ensures developmental gains from trade liberalisation. Mainstream trade theory does not promise that partial trade liberalisation guarantees optimal international specialisation.
Guterres: Old global order must change as power shifts to emerging economies
- UN News
UN Secretary-General António Guterres told leaders of a bloc of major emerging economies in New Delhi on Sunday that a more balanced global order requires an overhaul of the institutions built after the Second World War, including the UN Security Council.
UN hails Libya election deal as Security Council urges Libyans to seize the moment
- UN News
The UN Security Council has welcomed a breakthrough agreement between Libya's rival political blocs, calling it ‘an important step’ towards the country's first national elections in over a decade – while pressing all sides to move quickly from paper to practice.
Ships and seafarers increasingly caught in the crossfire of unrelated wars
- UN News
The global shipping industry is facing a "genuinely unprecedented" convergence of maritime crises, with vessels and seafarers increasingly used as “leverage” in conflicts that have nothing to do with them.
AI datacentres pose growing threat to electricity systems worldwide
- UN News
Use of data-intensive technologies – in particular artificial intelligence (AI) data centres – is growing faster than electricity infrastructure can handle, the UN’s economic commission for Europe has warned, raising concerns about the future reliability and resilience of energy systems worldwide.
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