Argentina’s Grossi tapped to lead IAEA
October 30, 2019
Rafael Mariano Grossi, Argentina’s ambassador to Austria, will become the sixth head of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency.
The World of International Organizations
October 30, 2019
Rafael Mariano Grossi, Argentina’s ambassador to Austria, will become the sixth head of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency.
October 29, 2019
Brexit will serve as backdrop to a weary electorate’s choices after lawmakers voted to authorize the first December national election in almost a century.
October 28, 2019
The World Anti-Doping Agency said it has received responses from Russian authorities to questions raised over data “discrepancies” at an anti-doping center.
October 25, 2019
The world’s biggest climate fund wrapped up a fundraising conference at Paris with US$9.78 billion in pledges raised from 27 mostly European nations.
October 25, 2019
A year of mass street protests exposed an erosion of public trust in political leaders who need to listen more to people’s real problems, the U.N. chief said.
October 23, 2019
U.S. lawmakers grilled Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on his plans to create a global digital currency and international organization to oversee it.
October 21, 2019
A group of nations responsible for nearly half of all global warming pollutants launched a new finance initiative to oversee investment in climate technologies.
October 21, 2019
Governments and businesses including YouTube, Facebook and Twitter are doing far too little to prevent violence from online hate speech, a U.N. expert said.
October 20, 2019
Voters in Switzerland’s national elections delivered a major boost to left-leaning Greens who back urgent U.N.-led climate action and other ecological causes.
October 20, 2019
Amid a storm of bipartisan criticism, U.S. President Donald Trump rescinded his plan to host the G-7 summit at his own resort in 2020.