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Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey (2L) and PepsiCO CEO Ramon Laguarta (R) participate in a panel discussion on reducing plastic waste during a session of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
World
05.08.2024
Coca-Cola, Pepsi tout plastic recycling in rare joint appearance
Sudanese police fire tear gas at hundreds of protesters trying to march on the presidential palace in the capital Khartoum on January 24, 2019
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05.08.2024
Protester killed in latest Sudan demos: official
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is expected to address the UN Security Council on Venezuela after the United States requested an urgent meeting for Saturday
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05.08.2024
US requests UN Security Council meeting on Venezuela
"The leadership should be an example for the Madagascan people," Rajoelina said, demanding "rapid results" from the new government
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05.08.2024
Madagascar's new president unveils streamlined cabinet
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US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has come under fire for saying he doesn't understand why some federal workers who are not getting paid during the government shutdown are using food banks
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Backlash as billionaire cabinet member dismisses US shutdown hardship
Finland allocated 899 million euros to overseas aid in 2018, representing 0.38 percent of the country’s gross national income (GNI)
World 05.08.2024
Finland duped into paying aid money into wrong account
Critics of a bill in the Netherlands giving Prime Minister Mark Rutte's government emergency powers in the event of a no-deal Brexit say it would undermine the Dutch constitution
World 05.08.2024
Dutch government seeks emergency Brexit powers
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Davos: 'For Russia, this election is a final chance to get its revenge'
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In Davos, fears of Russian interference in Ukraine election
A growing number of activists have been detained in Egypt in recent months
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Egypt 'more dangerous' than ever for govt critics: Amnesty
The possibility of an international deal to tax US tech giants is sensitive, as countries threaten to go it alone and Europe is divided on the issue
World 05.08.2024
OECD hopes for global digital tax by 2020
Charlotte Knobloch said she had received "coarse verbal abuse, threats and insults by email and telephone almost by the minute" since calling the German far-right AfD party a threat to democracy
World 05.08.2024
German Jewish leader 'threatened' after criticising far-right AfD
The Saudi presence at the World Economic Forum in Davos "is deeply distressing", Amnesty International chief Kumi Naidoo told AFP on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the global elite in the Swiss Alps
World 05.08.2024
Activists wary of Saudi Davos welcome after Khashoggi murder
A combination of file pictures shows (clockwise from top L) the Doomsday Clock on January 25, 2018; on January 26, 2017; on January 26, 2016; on January 22, 2015; on January 10, 2012; and on January 14, 2010
World 05.08.2024
Information wars endanger civilization, say 'Doomsday' experts
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